Senior Brand and Comms Manager

Location: Flexible/Remote - (travel to offices Bristol/Cambridge and other sites may be required)

Hours of work: 40 hours per week

Length: Full-time

Job Reference: FPP/SBCM

Salary: £40,000-£60,000

The Opportunity:

Reporting into our Chief Operating Officer, FocalPoint is looking for a Senior Brand and Comms Manager to own the execution for all brand, PR and communications initiatives to ensure consistency across all touchpoints both internally and externally.

You will collaborate with the Founder and other key executives in the development and maintenance of the company’s brand strategy and strengthen it in line with the company’s vision and mission as we continue to grow internationally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support key commercial areas to drive a strong brand and increased product awareness whilst helping operational teams on their respective agendas using your direct customer and industry awareness

• Own the delivery of a strong Public Relations strategy, raising both company profile and product awareness within our target industries

• Oversee our external communication strategy with current and future investors, trade and industry journalists and industry bodies to ensure they continue to promote and improve a positive awareness of our company, brand, products and the broader industry

• Be a brand champion for internal teams, helping to bring engagement in our brand from all members of staff into everyday working environments

Your Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in developing brand and communications strategies that support business growth and brand value for B2B businesses across highly technical customer segments

• Experience in managing external agencies and support services in order to execute against the plan

• Strong business acumen and a solid understanding of the dynamics of B2B tech marketing

• A passion for understanding emerging technologies, especially around the navigation and positioning environments and how they can be marketed and communicated within and outside of FocalPoint

• Strong presentation skills and experience in articulating company information and business strategies, both externally to customers and industry stakeholders and internally to product and engineering teams, and investors.

• Experience in building partnerships and relationships with a proven ability to influence

• Ability to operate with agility and be comfortable carving out a strategy where there is ambiguity

• Clear experience in empowering people to take thoughtful risks using every experience as an opportunity to drive a culture of innovation and growth

Other Desirables:

• MBA or similar qualification in Marketing Management

• Strong track record of building internal and external brand growth strategies and plans

• Strong communication and writing skills in English and ability to work across business lines, presenting to the Executive Team, investors, customers and other associates

• Previous B2B experience essential, and experience ideally within a technological environment

• Solid knowledge of SEO, web analytics and Google Adwords

• Experience in speaking to the press and at public events

• Ability to rapidly process information and understand and prioritise competing business needs

Your Development and Perks

Your development is equally important as our business grows and we offer opportunities including appraisals, career development plans, training courses, feedback sessions through 1-2-1 meetings, knowledge-sharing and cross-training.

Our generous benefits package includes the following

• 8% company contribution pension scheme

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Extra annual leave between Christmas - New Year’s

• Additional annual leave based on your length of service

• Paid professional memberships and career development through our personalised framework

• One-off Work From Home allowance to help you create a comfortable working from home environment

• Access to our company-owned equipment list allowing you to choose your own hardware

• Company-wide social events and team lunches

• Company Options Scheme*

• Up to £5000 Recommend a friend scheme

• Vitality Health Core Package private healthcare (also includes mental health cover, employee assistance programme, dental, hearing and optical cover, and more)

• Company Options are not offered as part of the package. You may be offered them throughout your employment.

Are You Ready to Change the World?

Our people are at the heart of everything we do and our successes are achievements driven by our employees. We stand by our values of:

• Working with integrity

• Setting the standards that others will follow

• Being trailblazers in the industry

We thrive on building a global organisation that is truly focussed on growing an inclusive culture where staff feel supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. We aim to attract diverse talent from around the world and ensure fairness, and equality is at the top of our agenda.

Our vision is to improve every positioning solution

We believe that GNSS is one of the marvels of the modern world. Over a trillion dollars of the US economy and over 800 billion euros of the European economy currently depends on this incredible positioning and timing system. However, the sensitivity and accuracy of current receivers fail the levels of performance 21st century businesses and individuals demand. Our revolutionary technologies transform the capability of all GNSS systems.