Innovation Marketing & Communications Manager

Job Description

At SP Energy Networks our focus is on harnessing technology and innovation to create the network of the future. Our team is building a dynamic network to meet the changing demands for electricity and increasingly, renewable electricity – safely, securely, and sustainably in the communities we serve.

At SP Energy Networks, we know people are central to building a better future, quicker and we are seeking new talent to join our team.

The Innovation Marketing & Communications Manager is responsible for the development and delivery of a strategic innovation communication programme across both the SP Energy Networks business, and external communication channels ensuring the delivery of clear, consistent, and effective messages to a range of audiences. The communications programme will comprise of multimedia channels, including a blend of traditional and technological solutions to deliver a step change in how we communicate across our organisation and externally with regard to innovation.

The postholder will play a key role within the Stakeholder & Communications team who manage internal and external communications for SPEN, they impact every part of our organisation and showcase our work to external audiences. They will provide direction and assistance to business leaders in relation to key strategic and operation messages, ensuring they are successfully delivered and understood.

What you’ll be doing

As the Innovation Marketing & Communications Manager, you will:

• Develop and deliver communications strategies, plans and activities already underway or agreed by current Innovation Marketing & Communications Manager.
• Develop and deliver further communications plans on SP Energy Networks’ innovation activities and key projects, agreed with project teams, other internal business stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Manage and coordinate multi-channel campaigns, ensuring consistency across digital, media, stakeholder, and internal communication channels.
• Actively manage, develop and maintain a range of communication messages for all channels (podcasts, PR, social media, intranet, website, webinars, events, printed materials, videos etc), that support our projects in the delivery of strategic objectives.
• Monitor and analyse communications effectiveness, using insights to refine strategies and improve engagement outcomes.
• Provide communications support to help drive an innovative culture internally at SP Energy Networks; supporting local innovation campaigns, sharing outcomes and achievements across the business and beyond.
• Provide solutions and know-how on communications and marketing best practice, ensuring the successful delivery of key messages both internally and externally.
• Liaise with key external suppliers and agencies on production of creative communications and marketing material, ensuring completion to brief, within budget and to agreed timescales.
• Work closely with the wider stakeholder and communications team, and local stakeholder teams, to ensure messaging aligns with strategic communications objectives at a business wide level.
• Provide support to the communications team for general communications requests daily. This will also include contributions to wider team planning and reporting.
• Work closely with SPEN Communications Manager to lead crisis comms response and storm resilience planning, ensuring effective communication before, during, and after extreme weather events.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for an individual who is able to work at a strategic level while also demonstrating a flair for content creation and design, able to create compelling promotional media such as videos, leaflets and beyond for internal and external audiences. Experience of working with agency partners to deliver projects is advantageous.

They will be delivery and results focused, ensuring high quality outcomes within the desired timescales and will be able to measure the effectiveness of communications - striving to continually improve and act on results and feedback.

As a manager, they will have the proven ability to lead and manage the delivery of communication interventions across a large and complex organisation with competing and shifting priorities. Detailed knowledge of communication and marketing tools and techniques and their practical implementation, including the latest technology and multimedia channels, is essential.

Qualified to degree level is desirable, but not essential.

To be successful, you will need to demonstrate as minimum:

• Strong experience working in dynamic corporate communications, public relations, or stakeholder engagement environments, ideally within the energy, utilities, or regulated sectors.
• Excellent content creation skills, with experience producing high-quality written materials for different audiences across multiple formats.
• Experience of successfully communicating complex subjects at all audience levels. Particularly writing successful marketing material and business writing translating technical and regulatory information into accessible, engaging content.
• Excellent influencing skills with experience working with senior leadership, media, and external stakeholders to shape and deliver impactful messaging.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and inter-personal skills to motivate and influence managers and staff at all levels and to translate technical and regulatory information into accessible, engaging content.
• Results focused with impeccable project management skills, you will be able to be able to prioritise to deliver high quality outcomes to tight deadlines.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing over £7 billion into our networks, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.