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TDi Sustainability (TDi) is looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, smart, curious, articulate, and detail-oriented senior marketing professional to fill a full-time position, starting immediately. This person will focus an agreed portion of their time specifically on strategic engagement with a multistakeholder initiative that we coordinate for the pharmaceutical industry, therefore previous communications experience in this sector would be useful.
Job title: | Senior Marketing Specialist |
Salary: | 40,000.00 - 45,000.00 |
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Work location: | Full time. Part time considered. |
TDi is an advisory firm with an agenda: we aim to show that businesses from production to retail, site to shelf, mine to main street – can create long-term value and make a positive difference in people’s lives. TDi combines business consulting expertise, technical knowledge, value chain focus and our sustainability mission to solve complex problems and deliver durable results for our clients. Our track record includes working with the world’s biggest companies and most recognisable brands, as well as lesser-known innovators, entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Our projects include building ESG management systems for investors; the design and application of supply chain due diligence tools and procedures; completing project level risk assessments and provision of subject matter expertise for sustainability audits; the development of commercialisation strategies for green products and services; and convening, managing and facilitating multi-company and cross-sector sustainability initiatives. We are a co-founder of a highly innovative impact investment vehicle and non-profit organisation – The Impact Facility for Sustainable Mineral Supply Chains – that was established to facilitate a flow of risk tolerant patient capital and technical assistance to small-scale miners, community enterprises and SMEs in our clients’ supply chains. The Impact Facility has launched the Fair Cobalt Alliance and the Lake Victoria Gold Programme with brands including Fairphone, Fairtrade, Signify, Tesla, Google, Glencore, Sono Motors and Solidaridad.
Role Summary:
TDi is seeking a highly competent marketing and communications professional. You will report to the Marketing Manager and work closely with the TDi Management team, other TDi team members, TDi clients and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Your main responsibilities will include:
• Working with TDi’s partners across diverse industry sectors and supply chains to service their communications needs at a strategic level. In particular you will spend an agreed portion of your time developing the communications strategy and plan for a multi-stakeholder initiative for the pharmaceutical industry, for which TDi acts as the Project Management Office
• Chairing and coordinating communications working groups
• Planning and executing marketing campaigns
• Managing and coordinating the partner engagement and approvals processes
• Leading the production and development of marketing materials
• Managing partner / client websites
• Managing TDi partners’ presence on social media platforms
• Leading media outreach
This is a client facing role, which means that good written and verbal communications are a requisite, as well as confidence in dealing with people at different management levels and working in a range of institutional settings such as SMEs, corporations, NGOs and government agencies. We are a small team, the members of which work remotely. The applicant will need to be happy working autonomously, managing their own time, prioritising workload, coming up with ideas, thinking on their feet, and taking the initiative to ask questions and find solutions to problems.
The successful candidate will have the following skills and knowledge:
• Ideally 5 – 8 years’ relevant professional work experience
• Ideally experience working on communications for the pharmaceutical industry
• Ideally knowledge of sustainability and circularity in packaging
• Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders with differing and competing views
• Experience in articulating a commercial marcomms strategy at C-suite level.
• Experience in developing marketing strategy and running marketing campaigns.
• Experience of creating comms assets
• A proactive, entrepreneurial attitude (show us)
• Skilled in developing pitch decks/presentations.
• Skilled in conceptualising content for marketing materials
• A flair for design
• Experience of Monday.com-type platforms.
• Must have experience of WordPress and PowerPoint,
• Strong working knowledge of social media platforms and how to maximise views through the development of targeted campaigns.
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent time management, able to effectively prioritise a full and rapidly evolving workload and deliver to deadlines;
• Language skills: Excellent English-language proficiency essential, a second language would be a distinct advantage
What we can offer you:
This is a chance to work with and learn from a very experienced team and contribute to several fascinating, influential and potentially ground-breaking projects in supply chain risk management, responsible sourcing, and impact investing.
• A contract for 40 hours per week;
• A competitive salary, commensurate with experience;
• Allowance for professional skill development
• MacBook and other equipment relevant for the workspace
• 23 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays and 3-5 additional days to complete a passion project
• Annual employee incentive plan
• Diverse, exciting and impactful work;
• Being part of a dynamic and experienced international team passionate about serving its clients to build successful responsible businesses, and committed to corporate sustainability, human rights and social change; and
• Flexible hours and possibility to work remotely. We have a policy to accommodate remote, flexible and autonomous working arrangements in return for a commitment to extremely high-quality deliverables, working to fulfil project goals, and consistently meeting deadlines. Unfortunately, we cannot support work visa applications so you must have permission to work in the country where you intend to work when you apply. This role is envisaged as a full-time, permanent position.
How to apply:
If you are interested in being considered for this role, please follow the link here. All applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position has been filled. By submitting your CV you are consenting to TDi using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by TDi. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.