Associate Director - Content / Digital

Marlow Talent; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A strategic communications consultancy is seeking an Associate Director to lead content strategy and advise senior stakeholders. This full-time, mid-senior role based in London involves creating high-quality content and driving best practices across multiple channels. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in strategic communications and a strong track record of crafting persuasive content. This position offers significant influence and the opportunity to define agency standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategic communications and public affairs.
• Strong track record of advising senior clients on content and messaging.
• Ability to create clear, persuasive content across multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Lead content strategy across multiple channels.
• Advise senior clients on messaging and narrative.
• Develop knowledge base to inform content decisions.
• Create and refine high-quality content.
• Drive consistent tone and best practices.
• Collaborate with consultants for alignment with strategy.

Skills

Strategic communications

Content creation

Advising senior stakeholders

Multi-channel content

Job description

Associate Director - Content Strategy / Digital Campaigns

This role is ideal for a communications professional who lives and breathes content: someone who can move comfortably between big-picture narrative thinking and sharp, effective copy. If you enjoy shaping stories for complex organisations, advising senior stakeholders, and building content systems that actually work in practice, this will appeal.

What makes this opportunity stand out is its scope and visibility. This is a newly created, business-critical role with real influence across a high-calibre strategic communications consultancy. You’ll work with ambitious clients on high-stakes briefs, while also defining the agency’s own content strategy and standards. It’s a chance to set the bar, not just meet it.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead content strategy across multiple channels (earned, owned, digital, social, thought leadership, speeches, op-eds and more).
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior clients on messaging, narrative, and content planning across corporate communications, issues and crisis, and public affairs.
• Develop and maintain a robust knowledge and evidence base to inform content decisions, using insights, audience understanding, and performance data to guide recommendations.
• Create and refine high-quality content yourself, as well as shaping briefs and guiding colleagues and external partners.
• Drive consistent tone, frameworks, and best practice across the consultancy’s own marketing and thought leadership.
• Collaborate closely with consultants across practice areas to ensure content aligns with wider strategy and delivers measurable impact.

Required Experience

You’ll likely bring agency or in-house experience in strategic communications, corporate or public affairs content, with a strong track record advising senior stakeholders and crafting clear, persuasive, multi-channel content.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Public Relations
• Location: London, England, United Kingdom