Job Title: Digital Marketing and Communications Manager
Location: Farnborough
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF17336

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Digital Marketing and Communications Manager to drive strategies to increase audience engagement and brand awareness through external QinetiQ digital channels.

The Role
You will work with the marketing communications team (marcomms) tand key stakeholders to develop, implement and optimise all of our external digital channels. This role will work with the wider team and organisation to ensure QinetiQ is positioned for growth externally and that we are engaging the right audience groups through our digital channels.

This is an exciting opportunity where you will have full autonomy and jurisdiction to make decisions, forging and driving the digital marketing strategy.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead QinetiQ’s external digital strategy across the Group – working with international marcomms teams and stakeholders to demonstrate a clear, consistent and engaging presentation of the QinetiQ brand across our key sectors – US, Australia and UK – and beyond
• Lead and manage the development of QinetiQ.com and other QinetiQ websites, including leading the brand and strategy management and development of all regional sites across the QinetiQ Group to ensure website design, UX, structure and SEO are in line with best practice
• Manage the full utilisation, development and training for QinetiQ’s external website Content Management System – Sitecore – working with the web team and wider marcomms team
• Develop QinetiQ’s strategy to showcase the brand, company priorities and personality through our social media channels via engaging multi-media content and strategic messaging
• Manage QinetiQ’s email marketing, including advising on and developing basic lead generation and marketing automation campaigns, where relevant, and testing new features and ideas to boost engagement and generate leads
• Build our Employer Brand through QinetiQ’s social channels, recruitment platforms and website via content marketing, working with the employee comms team and talent attraction team

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week where you will work remotely with occasional travel to our Farnborough site a couple of times month for team meetings.

Experience of the Digital Marketing and Communications Manager:

• Developing and delivering digital engagement strategies
• Experience of managing and developing team members, as well as influencing key stakeholders and those who aren’t direct reports
• Strong copywriter, editor, proof-reader and content creator
• Drive the timely publication of content on our social media channels and website, ensuring it is strategic, engaging, on brand and in line with best practice
• Experience of developing, launching, managing and optimising complex, global websites - ideally B2B/B2G
• Using and developing Content Management Systems

Qualifications of the Digital Marketing and Communications Manager:

• Degree level educated or equivalent working experience
• Demonstrable experience in digital marketing and communications

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.