Marketing and Communications Manager

Sapio Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapio Consulting, a UK private equity investor, is hiring its first Marketing and Communications Manager to build and lead the function. You will shape how the firm speaks to investors, founders, media and future talent, and work closely with a small senior partnership to deliver across earned, owned and executive communications.

You will own media relations through the deal and portfolio cycle, elevate partner profiles, support fundraising narratives, manage the company website and ensure

Qualifications

• Experience delivering earned media within financial services or private equity, either in-house or agency
• Established relationships with financial and trade journalists and a good grasp of transaction news management
• Proven ability to originate stories and opportunities outside the deal cycle
• Strong writing and editing skills with ability to distill complex investment themes
• Experience shaping thought leadership programmes and elevating senior leaders
• Understanding fundraising materials and investor relations narratives
• Experience managing websites and SEO with a focus on brand tone
• Calm, measured approach to crisis and issues management when working with senior stakeholders
• Ability to work with portfolio leadership teams and handle sensitive information discreetly
• Commercial awareness and ability to balance multiple workstreams in a lean team

Responsibilities

• Lead the firm's media relations across the deal and portfolio cycle
• Develop proactive media and profile activity between transactions
• Raise external profiles of partners and senior team
• Partner with IR to craft narrative for fundraising
• Own the firm's website and search performance for clear positioning
• Maintain tone of voice across all marketing collateral
• Design crisis and issues frameworks and lead responses
• Advise portfolio companies on communications to align with firm narrative
• Maximise value of events and create content that extends impact
• Produce employer brand content to strengthen hiring within the firm and portfolio

Skills

Earned media

Media relations

Writing & editing

Thought leadership

Investor relations materials

SEO & website management

Crisis management

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Tools

CMS (WordPress)

SEO tools

Job description

An established UK private equity investor with more than two decades of consistent capital growth behind it is making its first dedicated marketing and communications hire. Backing high-quality, management-led businesses across technology, business services, healthcare and education, the firm has a proven playbook for turning strong companies into genuine sector leaders, often through ambitious buy-and-build strategies, and a long record of successful exits to match. Its culture is a real differentiator: collaborative, low ego and refreshingly non-hierarchical, with a straightforward, entrepreneurial way of working that founders and investors consistently value. As the firm enters its next chapter of growth and fundraising, the Marketing and Communications Manager will establish the function and build it from the ground up, shaping how its story is told to investors, founders, media and future talent. Working closely with a small, senior partnership, this is a rare opportunity to combine strategic counsel with hands-on delivery across earned, owned and executive communications, and to leave a lasting mark on a highly respected brand.

Role

• Lead the firm's media relations across the deal and portfolio cycle, from new investments and realisations to leadership appointments and company milestones
• Develop a consistent programme of proactive media and profile activity between transactions, keeping the firm visible outside the deal calendar
• Raise the external profiles of the partners and senior team through bylines, commentary, speaking platforms and personal positioning
• Partner with investor relations to craft the narrative, positioning and supporting materials for the firm's next fundraise
• Own the firm's website and search performance, ensuring digital channels articulate its positioning clearly to investors, founders and other key audiences
• Set and protect the firm's tone of voice, maintaining consistency across all marketing collateral and external communications
• Design crisis and issues frameworks in advance, and take the lead on response when live situations emerge
• Advise and support portfolio companies on their communications, ensuring their activity complements the firm's broader narrative
• Maximise the value of events the firm hosts or attends, creating content and amplification that extends their impact well beyond the day
• Produce employer brand and talent content that strengthens hiring both within the firm and across the portfolio

Requirements

• A track record of delivering earned media within private equity, investment management or broader financial services, gained in-house or at a specialist agency
• Well-established relationships with financial and trade journalists, alongside a thorough grasp of how transaction news is managed and released
• Demonstrable success building profile proactively, originating stories and opportunities that sit outside the deal cycle
• Outstanding writing and editing ability, with a talent for distilling complex investment and market themes into clear, persuasive content
• Experience shaping thought leadership programmes and elevating the external standing of senior leaders
• An understanding of fundraising and investor relations materials, and of the role narrative plays in a successful capital raise
• Practical experience managing websites and SEO, paired with a strong instinct for brand consistency and tone of voice
• A calm, considered approach to crisis and issues management, with the judgement to counsel senior stakeholders under pressure
• The confidence to work alongside partners and portfolio leadership teams, managing upwards and handling sensitive information with discretion
• Commercial awareness and the independence to balance multiple workstreams within a lean, senior team

Here at Sapio Consulting we are not only proud to be equal opportunity employers in our own right but are also committed to and in the privileged position of being able to support each and every one of our clients and partners in their Diversity & Inclusion objectives and initiatives.

Our clients are equal opportunity employers and on their behalf we welcome candidates, applicants or prospective applicants regardless Age, Disability, Neurodiversity, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender identity or expression, Marriage or Civil Partnership or Partnership status, Pregnancy and Maternity or Parental status, Race, Religion or Beliefs, and Political Opinion.