Marketing and Communications Lead

Lloyd's Register Group Services Limited; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international technical professional service provider is seeking a Marketing and Communications Lead to amplify its brand and influence in maritime decarbonisation. This role involves developing strategic communications, managing media relations, and producing impactful content. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in senior marketing roles and be proficient in tools like Optimizely and Canva. You will work in a dynamic environment, collaborating with diverse partners globally.

Benefits

Inclusive workplace initiatives

Support for disability confidence

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• Proven track record of at least 5 years in senior communications or marketing roles.
• Demonstrable experience in managing complex collaborations and campaigns.
• Familiarity with the maritime sector and climate action is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver strategic marketing and communications plans.
• Shape the Hub's visual identity and messaging framework.
• Manage media relations and public engagement activities.

Skills

Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills

Strong knowledge of brand management

Experience in project management

Comfortable in fast-paced environments

Strong knowledge of digital analytics

Education

Degree in marketing, communications, public affairs, or journalism

Tools

Optimizely

Canva

Loom.ly

Job description

The Marketing and Communications Lead is responsible for amplifying the Hub's voice and brand, shaping the external narrative across digital, media, events and publications. This role will develop and deliver integrated marketing and communications strategies that increase visibility, stakeholder engagement, and support the Hub's influence and impact. Working closely with the Hub's programmes teams and within a complex corporate and partner-focused environment, the postholder will ensure content aligns with the Hub's identity and mission as a social-impact non-profit, effectively communicating technical insight to diverse audiences across industry, policy and civil society, and building collaborations to unlock communication and influencing channels globally. They will also play a central role in positioning the Hub as a global thought leader in maritime decarbonisation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver a strategic marketing and communications plan aligned to the Hub's mission, Theory of Change, and stakeholder needs.
• Lead the creation and dissemination of compelling content across digital platforms, media, publications and events to increase visibility and influence.
• Shape the Hub's visual identity and messaging framework, ensuring consistency, quality and resonance across all touchpoints.
• Manage media relations and public engagement activities to position the Hub as a credible thought leader in maritime decarbonisation.
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate complex evidence and research into accessible formats for a wide range of audiences, including industry, finance, government and the public.
• Build effective working relationships with a range of internal and external collaborators, including within the Lloyd's Register family and the Hub's network of partners, to expand the Hub's reach and influence.
• Monitor and evaluate communications performance through analytics and stakeholder feedback, adapting approaches for impact.
• Support the delivery of key stakeholder and partnership events, including global forums, campaigns, and thematic launches.
• Manage relevant suppliers (e.g. creative agencies, web developers) and internal contributors to ensure high-quality outputs.
• Proficient user of marketing and communications tools, platforms and technologies, including but not limited to Loom.ly, Optimizely, Word Press, Canva.
• Contribute to continuous learning by capturing and sharing lessons from communications and engagement initiative.

Key Health and Safety Responsibilities

• Eliminate or minimise employee's exposure to risks by reviewing, regularly, the health and safety risk register, applying appropriate controls, communicating results of risk assessment and ensuring health and safety is considered in the planning and execution of all LR activities.
• Manage your own and your team's compliance with health and safety rules, instructions, systems and legal requirements, ensuring employees are suitably trained and adequate resources are available to work safely.
• Monitor and review health and safety performance, observe safety behaviours in the workplace, taking appropriate corrective and preventative action as necessary and suggesting and implementing improvement activities.

Tools, Platforms, Software Proficiency

• Optimizely, Canva, Loom.ly

Qualifications

• Degree in marketing, communications, public affairs, journalism, or a related field or relevant equivalent professional experience.
• Proven track record of at least 5 years in senior communications or marketing roles.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and executing integrated communications strategies across digital, print, events, and media.
• Demonstrable experience in managing complex collaborations to develop impactful and far-reaching campaigns.
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into compelling content for varied audiences.
• Strong knowledge of brand management, digital analytics, and media engagement techniques.
• Experience working in cross-functional, impact-driven teams with an understanding of social impact and behaviour change communications.
• Familiarity with the maritime sector, climate action, or decarbonisation is highly desirable.
• Skilled in project management, supplier coordination, and stakeholder engagement.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, mission-oriented environment with diverse global partners.

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry's future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Lloyd's Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd's Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd's Register colleagues and Lloyd's Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.

We care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It's ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn't matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works - the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don't just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy.

Together we are one Lloyd's Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

Find out more about Disability Confident at: www.gov.uk/disability-confident