Marketing Manager

Position Overview

Reporting to the Head of Marketing, the Marketing Manager will support the organisational marketing strategy and take ownership of the delivery of day‑to‑day marketing activity at company, sector and account levels across multiple communication platforms. The Marketing Manager will take responsibility for positioning iconsys as an employer of choice, from a marketing perspective, ensuring alignment with iconsys’ overall marketing objectives and brand.

• To develop, implement, monitor and report on sector marketing plans in line with overall business and sector objectives, collaborating with internal stakeholders and following agreed internal processes.
• To create and manage employer brand activity and promote iconsys as an employer of choice, including careers content, early careers campaigns and internal communications.
• To implement and report on company-level marketing plans.
• To conduct line management responsibilities, initially for one team member.
• To analyse & identify key sector target audiences and the development of channel‑specific plans and campaigns.
• To embed AI across day‑to‑day marketing activity – using AI tools to plan and optimise digital campaigns, support social and content creation, and automate reporting to improve performance and efficiency.
• To evaluate and adopt new AI capabilities that can enhance targeting, personalisation and workflow automation across marketing channels.
• To work closely with external agencies, brief, coordinate and quality‑check the design and output of promotional material (sales literature, press releases, brochures, presentations and other collateral) and manage costs accordingly.
• To maintain and communicate a consistent brand image across all marketing channels and touchpoints, both external and internal.
• To manage and enhance relationships with technology and platform partners, coordinating joint campaigns and marketing activity.
• To work closely with the Sales team and wider business units to improve lead generation and prospecting through better sector‑based targeting, content and campaigns.
• To create the annual marketing budget (e.g. event costings, campaign estimates, supplier quotes).
• To manage the company’s attendance at events such as trade shows and conferences, including logistics, stand collateral and pre‑/post‑event communications.
• To enhance our online marketing strategy, including working with our content creator to manage the day‑to‑day publishing of content on the company website and social media channels, including reporting on results and suggestions to evolve the strategy.
• To plan, brief and edit written content for social media, PR, website, case studies, blogs and white papers, collaborating with subject matter experts across the business, and external agencies.
• To manage and enhance the internal communications strategy to ensure optimal and consistent brand promotion and compliance.
• Any other relevant duties as required.

• Hold a degree‑level qualification in Marketing, Business/Administration or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hold at least 3 years’ experience in a B2B marketing manager role (agency or in‑house), ideally within engineering, industrial automation or a related technical environment (preferred but not essential).
• Have hands‑on experience planning and delivering multi‑channel marketing campaigns and reporting on performance.
• Hold experience in digital and direct marketing channels (e.g. email, social media, paid campaigns, webinars, events).
• Hold strong copywriting and editing skills, with an eye for detail and the ability to tailor messages for different target audiences and channels.
• Hold strong project management skills, able to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines simultaneously.
• To be a confident problem solver, able to work through ambiguity and propose practical marketing solutions.
• Hands‑on experience with CRM and marketing automation tools such as Hub Spot and Dynamics, or similar (experience preferred in both but not essential).
• To be comfortable working with data to track, interpret and report on marketing performance.
• To conduct…