Job Title:  Marketing & Communications Manager

Package:  Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:     SF1938

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives.

Join us as a Marketing & Communications Manager at our Farnborough, Portsmouth or Amesbury site, where you will have the opportunity to play a key role in telling QinetiQ’s story to a range of audiences across different channels.

The Role
As the Marketing & Communications Manager for UK Defence (UKD), you will lead the planning and delivery of integrated marketing and communications for the sector, which represents 60% of the QinetiQ Group.

Working to the Head of Marketing and Communications for UKD, the successful candidate will work closely with colleagues from across the Group Marketing and Communications team to support QinetiQ’s business priorities, highlighting core capabilities across Research and Development, Engineering Services, Test and Training and Mission Support and Operations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying opportunities to promote the work and the people of our UKD Sector
• Creating and implementing integrated marketing and communications plans that help tell the story of QinetiQ’s critical role supporting defence and security
• Being a trusted advisor, providing support and guidance on marketing and communications activity that aligns to business winning/captures
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the MarComms and wider Corporate Affairs function to ensure alignment of messaging to key audiences
• Develop engaging content for use across internal and external channels and to support UKD’s presence at events aligned to business priorities

Essential skills and experience of the Marketing & Communications Manager:

• Excellent communicator with good writing skills
• Integrated marketing and communications experience, with good content creation skills across digital and social media platforms
• Team player who’s willing to work collaboratively across different groups to ensure consistency and alignment
• A high level of organisational ability and experience of working independently to effectively manage multiple projects and take decisions quickly
• Ability to distil complex messaging and jargon into relatable language that resonates well with target audiences (customers/investors/employees/media)
• Experience of complex stakeholder management and comfortable working with and influencing senior internal stakeholders and key external customers
• Ability to work at pace with attention to detail - comfortable delivering at pace and under pressure
• A background in technology or defence would be advantageous 

Essential qualifications for the Marketing & Communications Manager:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you. 

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough, Portsmouth or Amesbury. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

QinetiQ operates state-of-the-art facilities across the UK that focus on defence, security and technology innovation. These facilities enable QinetiQ to conduct a wide range of research, testing and development activities that support both military and civilian applications helping to advance technology and support national security.

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.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences 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. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported.  If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)