Brand and Communications Manager

Corndel.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading skills training provider in the UK seeks a Brand and Communications Manager to enhance its brand and communications strategy. The role involves managing social media, content, and PR efforts to ensure consistency and engagement across all platforms. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in branding, strong writing skills, and is excited to drive a powerful brand narrative. This position offers a hybrid working model and an inclusive culture with growth opportunities.

Benefits

Pension

Unlimited leave

Flexible working

Qualifications

• 5+ years in brand, communications, or content roles.
• Proven expertise in messaging and tone of voice.
• Excellent writing and editing skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve brand voice and messaging frameworks.
• Lead content strategy and manage the company website.
• Own organic social media strategy and drive engagement.

Skills

Brand management

Content strategy

Social media strategy

Writing and editing

SEO optimization

Tools

AI content tools

Content management systems

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Brand and Communications Manager

Team: Marketing

Package: Pension, Unlimited leave, Flexible working

Location: London-based, Hybrid (2 days in office per week)

About Corndel

Do you want to deliver meaningful impact at scale? Be part of a community that is purpose-driven. Join an inclusive, hugely ambitious, and successful team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Brand and Communications professional to play a defining role in elevating Corndel\'s brand, communications and voice - ensuring every touchpoint is powerful, consistent and full of personality.

Corndel is a strategic skills partner recently honoured as Training Provider of the Year. Our mission? To shape a world where everyone is empowered to be their professional best. We do this by partnering with a stellar list of clients including Gymshark, Unilever, the NHS, Aston Martin, Cancer Research UK, John Lewis, and the NSPCC.

As one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK, we\'ve already inspired and developed over 30,000 professionals and their organisations. Our programmes focus on the essential skills required for succeeding in today\'s ever-changing world of work: AI, data, technology and leadership. Our learners love us, rating us 9/10.

People are at the core of what we do. If you\'re looking to step up your career, this is your stage. At Corndel, we don\'t just offer jobs; we offer careers filled with purpose, growth, and heaps of fun. Don't just take our word for it; our open, flexible, entrepreneurial culture means 92% of the team recommends working for us.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to own and drive Corndel\'s brand and communications strategy. As our Brand and Communications Manager, you will lead on brand positioning, content strategy, social media, PR, and website management.

You will be the gatekeeper of our tone of voice and ensure every piece of content - whether created internally or with agencies - reflects and elevates our brand values.

You'll collaborate closely with our Senior Design Managerto ensure visual and written brand are consistently aligned, while also enabling our content managers to deliver high-quality work.

This role is central to making Corndel's brand powerful, distinctive and consistent across every channel.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Corndel's brand voice, tone and messaging frameworks, ensuring alignment across all communications
• Lead content strategy, ensuring campaigns and content tell a consistent, compelling story
• Manage and optimise the company website, keeping content accurate, SEO-friendly and brand-aligned
• Own organic social media strategy and delivery, driving reach, engagement and personality across platforms
• Lead PR activity, working with internal stakeholders and external contributors to secure media coverage and thought-leadership opportunities
• Govern and enable content production across the team: QA all outputs for brand/TOV alignment, provide guidance, and act as the final sign-off point
• Manage and govern AI content tools and workflows, ensuring they produce outputs that meet Corndel\'s content and brand standards
• Collaborate with the Senior Design Manager to ensure visual brand is aligned with messaging across all assets
• Produce and support corporate communications, awards submissions, executive messaging, and leadership content as needed
• Manage relationships, in collaboration with content and campaign managers, with creative agencies and freelancers (photographers, videographers, copywriters) to deliver high-quality external content

About You

We\'re looking for a creative and strategic communicatorwho can combine big-picture messaging with hands-on execution.

You'll be a brand guardian, content strategist, and comms all-rounder who is excited by the challenge of elevating a brand.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in brand, communications, or content roles
• Proven expertise in messaging, brand management, and tone of voice ownership
• Strong organic social media experience - strategy, execution and measurement
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with experience across PR, media, and corporate comms
• Experience managing websites and SEO optimisation
• Ability to govern content created by others and elevate it to brand standards
• Comfortable collaborating with design leads, agencies and freelancers

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience managing AI-based content tools and workflows
• Knowledge of B2B marketing in complex organisations
• Experience supporting executive comms or thought leadership campaigns

Why join Corndel?

• We\'re committed to having a fully inclusive, welcoming and safe culture and always striving to improve.
• We provide an environment that is truly flexible and supportive, somewhere you will have autonomy over your role.
• We\'re a leader in our field, with quality and excellence at the heart of what we do.

As part of our commitment to create an inclusive workplace where all colleagues can be their true selves, excel in their roles and progress in their careers, we recognise the importance of embracing the diversity in the working population and making Corndel a fully accessible employer.

As Corndel is a Disability Confident Employer, we make sure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job will be offered an interview. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, when submitting your application, please select the appropriate option to let us know that you have a disability. Please note this does not mean that all disabled people are entitled to an interview, in some recruitment situations such as peak times, we might need to limit the overall numbers of interviews we offer.

If you have a disability that might affect any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments you need before any interview or assessment. We\'ll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place and make the application process a more positive experience.

Corndel is committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment practices, and will undertake pre-employment checks on the successful candidate, including DBS Disclosure Check.

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