Marketing and Communications Specialist

Morson is delighted to be working in partnership with a market leading Defence organisation to recruit a Marketing & Communications Specialist for an initial 3-6 month contract. There is a rate of £25-£28 PAYE Per Hour or £34-£38 Umbrella on offer for the successful candidate. The role would offer Hybrid Working with a split between time spent onsite in Cambridge and working from home. The role could either be full time or part time.

Please find the job spec. below:

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.

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 recommendations

Content & 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:

• o 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.
• o 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

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