Senior Marketing and Communications Manager – 12 month contract

This role will lead marketing and communications planning, maintaining consistency, quality and frequency across key audiences and channels, with responsibility for developing national plans and supporting the team on activating these regionally and divisionally.

You will balance strategic thinking and hands on delivery, managing team members, providing robust planning mechanisms and consistently measuring and tailoring to our audiences.

Working closely with the Brand & Communications Director, you will bring focus and new ideas to an already rich content landscape, ensuring everything we produce is on brand, relationship led and optimised for our platforms.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, with the potential to become permanent although not guaranteed.

Leonard Curtis is a market leading professional services provider operating across the UK and Channel Islands. Since our formation we’ve supported business owners and advisors by listening and offering practical solutions and tailored advice. Our expert team of specialists deliver positive strategic advice across restructuring and insolvency, funding and law across 30 offices and we remain the largest restructuring firm in the UK

• At least 5 years’ experience in B2B marketing, with a strong focus on planning, delivery and measurement.
• Experience in professional services (e.g. accountancy, legal, financial or related sectors) or similarly complex B2B environments.
• Proven track record of planning and delivering content across multiple channels (web, social, email, webinars and similar).
• Excellent writing and editing skills, able to turn technical or specialist subjects into clear, engaging content for professional audiences.
• Experience managing or mentoring others, with the ability to set direction, give feedback and support development.
• Comfortable working with digital tools (e.g. CRM, Monday.com, webinar tools, social scheduling and analytics).
• Confident using data and insight to shape decisions, measure engagement and refine content strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate across the whole business and constructively challenge where needed.
• A proactive, collaborative and ideas driven mindset – keen to test new formats, learn from results and share best practice.

The specific duties and responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development and delivery of the national marketing and communications campaigns, aligned to business growth.
• Supporting your team to execute divisional and regional content calendars that span thought leadership, case studies, webinars, social content and video.
• Working with your team to introduce and test new content formats and channels, building business cases, pilots and playbooks for wider rollout.
• Overseeing and evolving the social media strategy (LinkedIn and Instagram) for relevant audiences and channels, ensuring it reflects our relationship led positioning and specialist expertise.
• Working with the Digital Marketing Manager to coordinate the delivery of content and campaigns for target audiences, ensuring webinars, email activity, membership portal content and resources work together to deepen engagement and increase penetration, using insight and data to refine plans.
• Using data to deliver focussed and actionable market, sector and audience insights
• Reporting on marketing and communications performance against agreed KPIs, sharing insight and recommendations with the team and wider stakeholders.
• Working with our external PR agency to deliver national and regional PR strategies and supporting the team to deliver targeted PR and media in line with plans.
• Managing internal communications initiatives, developing engaging content and supporting board led messages.
• Supporting recruitment marketing initiatives.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, including fee earners and senior leaders, to translate their insights into accessible, engaging content.
• Managing budgets for national, regional and divisional workstreams.

Management:

• Providing strong leadership and development opportunities for your team, supporting career plans through our competency led frameworks.
• Managing two Marketing and Communications Executives with responsibility for regional and divisional activation, providing day to day guidance, coaching and clear priorities.
• Managing one PR Executive with responsibility for sector communications.
• Managing all people processes including monthly one-to-ones and bi-annual appraisals, building a strong feedback culture, and taking full accountability for the development, performance, and wellbeing of direct reports.

• Salary aligned with your skills and expertise
• 27 days holiday allowance plus statutory public holidays (pro rata)
• A clear progression route to further your career
• Flexible benefit and well-being schemes
• Birthday leave
• 2 giving back days per year. We encourage our team to support the wider community by providing paid leave to work with local charities or good causes
• A hard working, fun and professional working environment
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity pay
• 36.25 hour working week

Leonard Curtis is a market leading professional services provider operating across the UK and offshore. Since our formation we’ve supported business owners and advisors by listening and offering practical solutions and tailored advice. Our expert team of specialists deliver positive strategic advice across restructuring and insolvency, funding, legal, business services and M&A advisory across 30 offices. A career with Leonard Curtis will open the door to varied career pathways.

We have built an environment that empowers you to express yourself to have confidence in who you are and what you’re capable of and develop the career you want.

Learning and Development

Leonard Curtis has a wealth of resources available to help you develop your career from the moment you join. Activities range from on-line learning modules to external training and qualifications.

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity is a core business imperative of the Group. We are an equal opportunities employer which promotes inclusiveness and always employ the best professional for the job. Having a diverse workforce allows the Group to draw upon a range of different ideas and experiences which supports our business’s growth and creates an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity for success.