Salary: £38,000 - £45,000

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

The Solutions Marketing Manager is responsible for driving the success of Ricardo, its solutions and brand proposition in key regional markets across our targeted industries.

The role requires an energetic and intuitive marketing strategist with exceptional leadership and communication skills, and a proven ability to deliver effective marketing campaigns that generate results.

The successful candidate will be proficient in creating and managing plans that support regional lead generation and act as a single point of contact, with global responsibility for marketing one of Ricardo’s portfolios, to ensure consistent brand promotion and positioning across the globe.

This is a hands-on role, requiring coordination and execution of the global marketing plan of our solutions, in region and across industries.

Key Accountabilities

• To drive and implement global marketing campaigns that meet business objectives and create leads.
• Write tactical marketing plans in accordance with strategy and budgets, with input from relevant teams to ensure an integrated marcomms approach.
• To direct and support customer-research projects that will drive customer intimacy.
• To drive the creative development of segment multi-channel campaigns (website and social media), marketing collateral and sales tools.
• To build and manage customer relationships with channel and installed-base partners to support higher levels of revenues for the business.
• Serve as the marketing liaison with Solution Heads and our Regional leads in evaluating needs and obtaining insights to optimise the marketing plan.
• Accountable for working with key internal stakeholders to develop campaigns and engagement strategies to deliver integrated marketing activities.
• Assess market needs and opportunities, obtain insights on customer usage, and identify and analyse industry trends.
• To maintain Ricardo’s brand standards and guidelines and ensure compliance across all marketing and communications channels.
• Monitor and manage expenditures within the allotted budget.

Key competencies and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business management, communications, or relevant field.
• Professional marketing experience.
• Creative thinker, excellent listener, and communicator.
• Proven experience creating targeted marketing campaigns delivering ROI.
• Data-driven (competitor analysis, surveys, SEO/keywords)
• Demonstrable experience of marketing practices and techniques.
• Must be able to multi-task and work well under pressure.
• Excellent organisational and leadership abilities.
• Have excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience of marketing tools including automation software, CRM, Adobe creative cloud preferred.
• Possession of strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to bring operational rigour to deliver a compelling marketing plan delivering results.
• Ability to be resourceful as well as strong at probing, translating information into insight.
• Sound understanding of the sales environment and an appreciation of the pressures and drivers associated with working in sales.
• In-depth knowledge and ability to apply marketing planning techniques and best practices.
• Experience of collaborating in a cross-functional and cross-culture organisation, with the ability to act as the bridge between the sales teams (business development and regional teams) and the solutions teams.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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