Marketing Content Manager

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Role overview/job purpose
We are looking for an experienced content manager to join our newly expanding content team and take responsibility for developing content for our own corporate channels.

Reporting to the Managing Editor and collaborating closely with the External Communications and Press Manager, you will support the development and execution of the content plan and schedule. You should relish the challenge of developing high-quality high-impact content, and bringing stories to life in a credible, creative and engaging way. You will need to be an excellent collaborator who can confidently lead conversations and interviews with a variety of stakeholders and be a great team player.

Job description

• Supporting the Managing Editor in developing and executing on the content plan, and ensuring accurate visibility of the regions content pipeline.
• Leading the ideation and planning of content for own channels across region-wide and Unit-specific areas.
• Ideating and creating priority/hero content assets, such as key reports, guides, thought leadership articles, people profiles and case studies, etc.
• Effective and efficient delivery of regular rhythm of ‘business as usual’ content assets. Ideating, researching and creating campaign-focussed content, from thought leadership articles and op eds, to video scripts and podcasts, etc.
• Creating and reviewing award submissions, materials and communications.
• Crafting content for VIP internal stakeholders such as presentation or video speaker notes, social media
• posts etc.
• Ensuring that the corporate brand, tone of voice and technical excellence standards are properly represented in all content and meeting all relevant aspects of the Group service level agreement (SLA).
• Ensure that tools and data are effectively used to shape high performing impactful content.
• Line management of marketing copy writer, providing support, development and encouragement to
• enable them to be at their best.
• As a manager within the marketing function, contributing to ensure the overall success of the marketing function across the region, and having strong relationships across the Group marketing function and regional counterparts where relevant.

Person specification
Essential

• First and foremost be a highly experienced communicator with good experience in a senior position leading a variety of editorial and copy outputs.
• Proven ability to research topics and conduct interviews, and to quickly condense and clarify complex ideas into concise, easy-to-understand highly engaging copy.
• Natural storyteller with a demonstratable track record in the production of high-impact content within a busy department.
• Experienced in both short and long form content, and both journalistic and marketing-led content types.
• Confident in giving and taking briefs, developing synopses, and reviewing/editing the work of others as well as producing your own content.
• Love of words and creative writing with a strong command of written English language
• Strong attention to detail to ensure accurate and proof checked content.
• Highly organised with demonstrable project management skills, and be able to work on a variety of tasks simultaneously.
• Outstanding collaborator able to form trusted relationships, and the ability to welcome different perspectives, with empathy for the positions of others.

Desired

• Marketing, communication or related degree, or other marketing / communication qualification from an appropriate body.
• Some understanding of consultancy, engineering, and/or the built environment and some familiarity with critical industry issues.
• Some experience in people management and know how to create an enjoyable team environment and support people to be themselves and be at their best.
• Keen interest in developing your own skills, as well as the skills of others.
  

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.