Digital Marketing Manager

Job Description

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Digital Marketing Manager

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Thales is a global leader in critical infrastructure, aerospace and defence technologies and is one of the fastest moving digital transformation integrators where communications and cybersecurity needs to be assured for your organisation’s data. In the UK, we are taking the lead in the development and commercialisation of government, defence, transportation and the new breed of AI-driven autonomous and edge-connected devices. We are looking for entrepreneurs from the technology industry to support the entire UK business – over £1.3Bn – and educate, lead and mentor the rapid ideation and commercialisation of tomorrow’s platforms and systems.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Digital Marketing Manager to work as part of the Digital Enablement team and with the wider Strategy and Marketing function in order to prepare the UK business to meet its ambitious digital transformation agenda.

You will be responsible for introducing & supporting competitive digital marketing practices. As well as understanding and communicating competitive marketing strategies/tactics and advising business units accordingly. The successful individual will be involved with updating and mentoring commercial analysis for business case development delivering mentoring and support to the UK teams the packaging, selling and management of new pricing methodologies. You will also be responsible for mentoring and supporting the market analyst and marketing communications teams to increase the speed and success of investor presentations and marketing campaigns.

Your objectives as a newly formed digital enablement team will be to:

• Rapidly educate customer-focused UK teams on the digital opportunity & speed up customer engagement and funding
• Introduce inbound marketing strategies and approach.
• Introduce KPIs and measurements of marketing impact.
• Support the introduction of new digital selling and pricing models.
• Streamline, share & accelerate the development of digital solutions across CBUs, domains, industries and countries
• Provide prioritisation by business value of downstream POC/MVP opportunities
• Engage the necessary ecosystem of partners to enable rapid development and deployment of solutions
• Position Thales as a digitally competent partner to our customers

Experience

We are looking for an individual who can take Thales out of its comfort zone. Marketing in a way that gets ahead of the game. We are looking for you to be able to set out a roadmap without knowing the full solution, rapidly understanding the viability of ideas. The right person for this role will be a leader who is able to create a framework for the deployment of digital selling across our business.

This person will adept at inbound marketing - attracting customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them. They must be able to support the CBU marketing team to create the digital narrative. An influencer – was are looking for someone who can build the digital brand and can change mind-sets within the CBU’s. It goes without saying you will need to be a tenacious change agent – who can challenge despite how difficult that can be at times. This person will be someone who ca appreciate the pressures of the “classic” business but comfortable challenging their the status quo .If you feel this is the role for you please send us your CV.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 65,000 employees in 56 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!