Overview
We're looking for a Marketing, Brand & Communications Project Manager who brings structure to creativity - and the commercial awareness to operate in complex, fast-moving environments, including mergers and acquisitions. This role sits at the intersection of project delivery, brand stewardship, and strategic communications. You'll own the planning, coordination, and execution of marketing and communications initiatives, making sure the right people are working on the right things at the right time - and that everything that goes out the door looks, feels, and sounds like us. Critically, you'll also play a key role in supporting M&A activity: managing communications workstreams, protecting brand integrity through transitions, and keeping stakeholders aligned when the stakes are high.
Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Own end-to-end delivery of marketing, brand, and communications projects - from campaign launches and brand refreshes to event production, content programmes, and integration workstreams.
- Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and budgets, keeping stakeholders aligned and informed.
- Manage dependencies across internal teams (creative, digital, comms, legal, finance) and external agencies or vendors.
- Run effective project ceremonies: kick-offs, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Track progress against milestones, flag risks early, and keep delivery moving - including under the time pressures typical of M&A environments.
Brand Management
- Act as a guardian of brand consistency across all marketing and communications outputs – written, visual, and digital.
- Review and approve materials to ensure alignment with brand guidelines, tone of voice, and positioning.
- Manage the production pipeline for brand assets, ensuring quality and coherence across channels and markets.
- Lead brand integration work during acquisitions – assessing acquired entities' brand positioning and managing the transition to a unified identity.
- Support the evolution of brand standards and help embed them across teams and geographies.
Communications
- Develop and deliver internal and external communications plans for marketing campaigns, organisational change, and M&A activity.
- Draft and manage communications across channels – executive messaging, press releases, employee communications, and stakeholder updates.
- Coordinate communications timing and sequencing during sensitive periods, including deal announcements, integration milestones, and leadership transitions.
- Ensure message consistency across all audiences – employees, clients, media, and partners - particularly during periods of change.
M&A Support
- Serve as the communications and brand workstream lead on M&A transactions – from pre-deal planning through to post-merger integration.
- Manage stakeholder communication plans across both sides of a transaction, ensuring clarity, consistency, and timing discipline.
- Coordinate brand due diligence: audit acquired entities' brand assets, guidelines, and market positioning.
- Build and execute integration playbooks for brand and communications, including renaming, rebranding, and channel migration.
- Work closely with legal, finance, and senior leadership to ensure all external communications meet regulatory and contractual requirements.
Stakeholder & Agency Coordination
- Serve as the primary point of contact for agency partners, freelancers, and creative vendors.
- Translate strategic briefs into clear, actionable work packages that external partners can deliver against.
- Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders – balancing their needs while protecting brand integrity, message consistency, and delivery timelines.
What You Bring
- Project Management – Proven experience delivering marketing, brand, or communications projects end-to-end, on time and on budget.
- Brand Awareness – A genuine understanding of what makes a brand consistent – across tone, visuals, and messaging – including through transitions.
- Communications – Experience crafting and delivering internal and external communications across multiple channels and audiences.
- M&A Experience – Direct involvement in communications or brand workstreams on M&A transactions – integration planning, deal comms, or rebranding programmes.
- Stakeholder Management – Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders across functions and seniority levels, including C‑suite and legal teams.
- Organisation – Structured, detail-oriented, and calm under pressure – you track the details so others don't have to.
- Communication – A clear, direct communicator who can adapt their style to creative teams, senior leaders, legal counsel, and agency partners alike.
Tools
- Hands‑on experience with project management platforms (e.g. Asana, Monday.com, Jira) and familiarity with creative and comms workflows.
Experience & Qualifications
- Experience across project management, brand, marketing, and/or communications roles.
- Direct experience supporting at least one M&A transaction – on the corporate, agency, or advisory side.
- Background in an agency, consultancy, or in-house marketing/communications function.
- Experience managing sensitive communications under legal or regulatory constraints.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working is a plus.
- A formal PM qualification (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.
Who You Are
You're not just a task tracker – you care about the work and the standard it reflects. You can hold a room together when priorities shift, push back when quality is at risk, and move fast without cutting corners. You're as comfortable in a creative review as you are in a deal war room. You bring the discipline of a project manager, the instincts of a brand thinker, and the composure of a communications professional. When things are moving quickly and the stakes are high – which in M&A, they always are – you're the person keeping everything on track and on message.
