Campaign Lead – Defence & National Security

Forward Role Secure; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DV bonus

Job summary

Forward Role Secure is recruiting a Campaign Lead to own the Cyber & Secure Communications domain in the UK, based in Hampshire or Gloucester. The role shapes a multi-year growth strategy, aligning sales, marketing, product and delivery to deliver secure communications solutions for government and defence clients.

The candidate will lead a virtual team, prioritise opportunities, and drive market engagement to convert pipeline into secured wins, influencing investment priorities and roadmaps in

Qualifications

• Deep domain knowledge of cyber security and secure communications.
• Track record leading cross-functional or virtual teams.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and making good calls with incomplete information.
• Commercial acumen suited to long, complex sales cycles.
• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Set and maintain a multi-year growth strategy for the domain, prioritising customers and opportunities.
• Build understanding of customer missions and emerging threats; be the go-to voice on market direction.
• Pull together a virtual team across sales, marketing, product, engineering and delivery; align priorities.
• Connect capability to customer need by working with product and engineering on integrated solutions.
• Drive market engagement with marketing; develop GTM strategy and convert into pipeline and wins.

Skills

Cyber security expertise

Cross-functional leadership

Ambiguity tolerance

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Tools

Marketing

Security

Job description

Salary: £67,000 - 107,000 per year

Requirements:

• Deep domain knowledge of cyber security and secure communications, including the operational challenges facing defence, government and national security customers
• A track record of leading cross-functional or virtual teams and delivering results through influence rather than direct authority
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the judgement to make good calls on incomplete information
• Commercial acumen suited to long, complex sales cycles, including opportunity shaping and market development experience
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and facilitation skills, with the ability to turn diverse input into a clear plan of action

Responsibilities:

• Set and maintain a multi-year growth strategy for the domain, prioritising the customers, segments and opportunities that matter most, and acting as the final word on domain-level trade-offs and decisions
• Build a deep, evidence-based understanding of customer missions and emerging threats, and become the go-to voice, internally and externally, on where this market is heading
• Pull together a virtual team across sales, marketing, product, engineering and delivery. Align priorities, resolve conflicts, and turn many moving parts into one coherent, executable plan
• Connect capability to customer need by working with product and engineering to shape integrated solutions, influence the technology roadmap, and identify where investment should go next
• Drive market engagement by partnering with marketing on positioning, go-to-market strategy and demand generation, then working with account teams to convert that into pipeline and won business

Technologies:

• Marketing
• Security

More:

We are a specialist technology company trusted by government, defence and critical infrastructure customers to keep the nations most sensitive systems safe. We are hiring a Campaign Lead to take ownership of our Cyber & Secure Communications domain and drive its next phase of growth. This is a strategic leadership position at the intersection of technology, customer insight and commercial growth, with responsibility for a portfolio spanning secure end-user devices through to cyber test ranges, R&D, consultancy and rapid prototyping. The role is based in Hampshire or Gloucester and offers a salary of £85,000 to £100,000 plus a DV bonus. We are looking for someone to help shape the future of secure communications for UK Defence and National Security, with genuine influence over investment priorities, market positioning and go-to-market execution in a business solving problems that matter for national security.