Why join Marshall Land Systems in this role:
We're looking for a creative and commercially-minded Marketing Communications Executive to help establish our global marketing and communications function. This is a hybrid role working in our office 3-4 days per week.
This role is central to shaping and amplifying our marketing communications across multiple channels. You'll take complex technologies and services and turn them into clear, compelling messages across a variety of channels, including digital, PR, events, video, and social media.
You will manage external partners, foster strong internal collaborations, and support business development by raising awareness and enhancing our brand reputation.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual who thrives on challenge and seeing projects through from inception to delivery. You have a chance to make a real impact in helping us achieve our vision of becoming a global leader in deployable, resilient defence infrastructure and integrated platform solutions that support mission-critical operations anytime, anywhere.
Accountability
Responsibilities:
Brand
Champion and protect the brand across all channels, ensuring a consistent tone of voice, messaging, and visual identity
Collaborate with internal teams and partners to deliver clear, compelling, and on-brand communications that support commercial goals
Marketing & Campaigns
Support the planning and delivery of integrated marketing campaigns and activities across digital, print, PR, and events
Build brand awareness and credibility through social media, blogs, forums, and relevant online platforms
Monitor performance and translate insight into clear recommendationsContent & Communications
Develop compelling materials such as press releases, articles, case studies, videos, and presentations.
Develop a central library of imagery and video assets to enable fast, consistent, and on-brand content creation across all marketing channels
Support clear and engaging internal communications
Evolve brand messaging and establish clear tone-of-voice guidelines
Digital & Social
Manage day-to-day social media activity, including content planning, scheduling, and performance tracking
Oversee website updates and performance in partnership with the digital agency
Stakeholder & Supplier Management
Build strong relationships with internal teams, partners and suppliers
Brief and manage suppliers such as designers, videographers, to ensure timely, on-brand delivery
Ensure all activity complies with customer regulations and national security requirements
Tasks:
Showreel: Plan and manage the production of a new showreel and a core video/image library to support social and campaign content
Customer suite: Support the development of a new customer experience suite at our UK HQ, bringing the brand to life in a physical space
Marketing material:
Partner with the business development team to define and deliver a core suite of marketing collateral, including dual-branded data sheets and programme case studies.
Define the brief and deliver an engaging VR experience that showcases our capabilities and value
Social Media: Plan and manage LinkedIn and YouTube channels, growing followers and amplifying our voice and expertise
Key tradeshows: Develop and deliver campaigns that maximise impact at key tradeshows, as well as supporting the successful execution of these events
Marketing calendar: Maintain a rolling marketing calendar, featuring channel activities such as events, social media, thought leadership, campaigns etc.
Experience:
Proven experience in a marketing communications or similar role
Strong storytelling, copywriting and editing skills
Experience working across multiple marketing channels
Good understanding of digital marketing and social media platforms
Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects
Ability to design social media graphics using software such as Canva or InDesign
Ability to capture and edit video content for social media/website using software such as Canva, Capcut or Premier Pro
Desirable
Basic understanding of SEO and analytics (e.g. Google Analytics)
Experience in B2B and/or Defence/Engineering or Manufacturing environment, navigating a highly regulated environment
Personal Attributes
Creative, proactive, and detail-oriented
Ability to build positive relationships at all levels
Comfortable working on projects from inception to delivery
Comfortable working independently
Confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills
Commercially-aware and results-focused
The benefits we will offer you include:
27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
Pension contributions up to 9%
Private medical insurance
Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
Life assurance at 4x basic salary
Enhanced parental leave and pay
Paid volunteering leave
Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools
Introduction to Marshall Land Systems
Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands