Company: Market Dojo

Job Title: Head of Marketing and PR

Business area: Marketing within the procurement software sector

Job type: Permanent, Full time

Location: Remote with regular visits to our office in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. Preferably within a one hour commute of our office.

Salary: £40-45k base with £50-55k OTE

Other Benefits: Lots to mention: pension scheme, employee share scheme, quarterly team away-days,quarterly spending vouchers, modern office in the countryside, office snacks, freshly ground coffee,monthly pizza lunches, monthly breakfast club…list goes on! Some of which depends on when the office re-opens

About the Company: Market Dojo is a young, dynamic and rapidly growing entrepreneurial company. We develop and sell innovative web applications to procurement professionals all over the world including those from PaddyPower, Fiat Chrysler, G4S and AkzoNobel.

Our products have routinely helped Enterprises save an average of 16% on their procurement activities within a matter of weeks, creating a brand and product that our clients love. See the reviews for yourself on Capterra.

Our team are enthusiastic, passionate professionals who want to make a difference and grow a fantastic brand. Check out our 5* reviews on Glassdoor. We believe in four key ideologies: being collaborative, transparent, agile and having fun.

You will be integral to our team working alongside the three co-founders and other teams within the organisation. As a senior marketing professional you will be able to hit the ground running, but we will train you in our market  and enable you to become a success in the role. This role can grow in line with your capabilities.

Job Purpose: To head up the marketing team [currently 3 people] with a dedicated focus on PR.  Expect the split to be 50/50.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Head of Marketing – Strategic Activities:

  • Accountable for Marketing within Market Dojo

  • Managing team to hit quarterly and annual targets

  • Delivering the results necessary to allow other parts of the organisation to succeed.

  • Developing Marketing Plan

  • Creating and tracking budgets

  • Assigning targets through modelling

  • Branding and messages

  • Managing recruitment

• Head of Marketing  – Management Activities:

  • Marketing cohesion/morale

  • Chairsides

  • Managing commissions

  • Managing Holiday calendars

• Plan, develop and implement PR strategies:

  • Research, write and distribute press releases to targeted media

  • Monitor and analyse media coverage and report results to stakeholders

  • Take responsibility for communications in our  crisis management plan.

  • Manage and update information and engage with users on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook

• Content:

  • Write and edit in-house magazines, case studies, speeches, articles and annual reports

  • Prepare and supervise the production of publicity brochures, promotional videos, photographs, and multimedia programmes

  • Devise and coordinate photo opportunities

  • Maintain and update information on the organisation’s website

  • Liaise with content providers and industry experts to create with blogs/whitepapers/knowledge notes

• Community:

  • Use our own forum and sites such as Capterra to build a community of passionate, engaged users, who act as advocates for our product

Person Specification:

• Excellent organisational skills

• Creative with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• Able to quickly build relationships

• Passionate about technology

• Friendly & approachable

• Conversational

• Creative

• Energetic & self-motivated

• Enthusiastic person

• Clean and valid driving licence

• Need to be eligible to work in the UK

Experience and Qualifications: We are looking for a senior marketing professional with a track record of success. You should have a PR background, a passion for content; and desire the next challenge. You should have excellent knowledge of the digital landscape, ideally within a SaaS company. To succeed in this role, you will need to be a dynamic engaging leader with a can do attitude. A knowledge of procurement would be valuable but not essential.

Progression path: We are a young company with big ambitions to grow and looking at our next round of investment.

To apply for this role, please send your covering letter and C.V to: alun.rafique@marketdojo.com