The role
You’ll own the Manifest Global group brand day to day: how the group is positioned, how it communicates, and how its brands sit together. This is a hands‑on role for someone who can write well, think in systems, and work with senior leaders without needing a big team around them.
What you’ll do
- Maintain and evolve the group brand architecture and guidelines, defining how Manifest and its portfolio brands relate visually and verbally.
- Own group‑level channels, including the Manifest website and LinkedIn presence, with a clear content calendar and consistent voice.
- Lead corporate communications: acquisition and partnership announcements, press releases, leadership messaging, and internal announcements with the Talent team.
- Build thought leadership for the executive team, including LinkedIn content, conference talks, and presentation materials.
- Produce group‑level collateral for partnerships, institutional relationships, and investor‑facing materials, working with Finance and Strategy.
- Support group presence at industry events and conferences, from pre‑event positioning to follow‑up content.
- Partner with the Talent team on employer brand so external and talent messaging stay aligned.
- Coordinate with brand marketing leads so portfolio brands stay consistent with group standards without slowing their execution.
- Track brand and channel performance and report what’s working in plain terms.
What you bring
- 3 to 5 years in brand, corporate communications, or marketing, ideally with B2B, edtech, or multi‑brand exposure (agency experience counts).
- Excellent written English. You can draft a press release, an exec LinkedIn post, and a brand guideline in the same week, each in the right register.
- A strong visual eye and working proficiency in Canva or Figma; you can brief designers and also execute yourself.
- Comfort working directly with senior leaders and managing competing requests across countries and time zones.
- Sound judgment with confidential information.
- Active use of AI tools in your workflow, and the judgment to know where they help and where they don’t.
Nice to have
- Communications experience during fundraising, M&A, or rapid scale‑up.
- Exposure to markets across APAC, India, Europe, or the Middle East.
- Background in education, higher education, or international student recruitment.
What success looks like in your first six months
- A refreshed group brand guideline adopted across the portfolio.
- A consistent, regular Manifest presence on LinkedIn and the website.
- A repeatable process for announcements, from draft to approval to publication.
- Brand leads seeing you as a resource that helps them, not a checkpoint that slows them down.