Marketing & Communications Lead

About the Job: 

As Middle East marketing and communications lead, you will play a key role in increasing awareness of the impact of Mott MacDonald’s projects in the Middle East as well as strengthening overall visibility of our brand and thought leaders. You will join a small but highly productive team that works across our Middle East portfolio to ensure excellence in all our communications through remote and in-country support. International travel may be required.  

Key responsibilities:  

External marketing and communications  

1. Oversee all external communications outputs for the Middle East unit, including PR, event support, thought leadership activities, working closely with the regional marketing and communications team. 
2. Work with business leaders to create and deliver comprehensive marketing and communications strategies for their markets. 
3. Work closely with the regional marketing and communications team to prepare compelling content for press releases, brochures and award submissions, ensuring that messages are supportive of and consistent with the company’s branding and marketing strategies.  
4. Work closely with cross-functional teams including marketing and communications, excellence and business development teams to deliver high level external campaigns.  
5. Contribute to regional and Group social media activities by developing and coordinating content on a regular basis. 
6. Update and maintain relevant pages on our Mott MacDonald corporate website. 
7. Compile media lists and carry out media monitoring for the business and its key projects. 

Internal communications  

1. Support internal communication channels such as Mott MacDonald’s intranet site, Viva Engage, newsletters and emails to ensure effective and timely dissemination of information.  
2. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of internal communications initiatives through metrics, surveys and feedback mechanisms and introduce necessary adjustments.  
3. Support in organising internal training sessions and internal events i.e., social media and brand awareness sessions. 

Ideal candidate specification 

1. A Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Liberal Arts (or eqv) from an accredited university with minimum three years marketing experience. 
2. Previous experience in a similar role/environment, preferably in a global organisation. 
3. Experience of adhering to corporate and client branding and external communications guidelines.  
4. Experience in producing a wide range of effective communication products, including but not limited to newsletters, web and social media content. 
5. Experience working with the media and issuing press releases, as well as managing social media channels. 
6. Experience organising events and high-level meetings – physical and virtual. 
7. Experience using digital platforms to deliver events.  
8. English language, fluent written and spoken. 
9. Proficiency with Microsoft Office. 

Our Purpose
At Mott MacDonald, our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do; relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of our organisation. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate, rather take positive steps towards creating a diverse and inclusive working environment.
Flexible Working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.
We can offer:

• 90 calendar days’ paid maternity leave
• Competitive annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance