Full time/Part time Marketing Manager

Dependent on the candidate’s skill set, the candidate would be responsible for some or all of the following areas and activities:

Positioning Invicta’s offering to existing customers, prospective customers and prospective employees, including development of how we present what the company does, (based on what our customers need/where the market opportunity is), our core strengths, our brand proposition and company values. Offerings will be presented at a company level down to specific areas of focus such as virtualisation, software asset management and managed services. This will be communicated via:

• Sales training and production sales collateral
• The company web site
• Telemarketing
• Customer facing presentation/storyboard and proposal material
• Web based techniques including blogs, social/professional media
• Case studies
• Targeted e-shots
• PR activities

Working with our vendor partners to increase the effectiveness of each Invicta/vendor relationship including:

• Facilitating the relationship between vendor partners and the Invicta IT sales teams
• Formulating and implementing joint campaigns to enhance Invicta IT value proposition and drive business opportunities for new and existing accounts
• Management of associated co-op marketing funds and maximising the benefit of available funding
• Representing Invicta IT at certain vendor partner advisory meetings and partner conferences
• Marketing Invicta IT into our vendor partners’ organisations, particularly their sales teams

Working with sales people on specific large sales campaigns:

• Assisting sales people in formulating their customer proposition
• Assistance in responding to important tenders and the presentation materials required
• Being an available resource to sales people, (along with the other senior managers of the company) to attend customer meetings and present Invicta IT
• Working with Invicta IT recruitment to ensure we are positioning Invicta IT effectively to prospective employees and maximising our recruitment media spend
• Management and development of Invicta IT customer satisfaction surveys and feedback mechanisms

Working with the company’s managing director to constantly improve internal communications

All matters relating to the Invicta IT brand

Customer hospitality and relationship building programmes.

Given the range of activities covered above it is very likely that the candidate will be an experienced marketing manager. However we would consider applicants from other disciplines such as sales or business development management, should candidates be able to demonstrate the required skill set/experience, which will include many of the following attributes:

• Probably educated to degree level with 2.1 or above
• Excellent communicator with outstanding writing and oral skills
• High degree of business acumen with an innate sense of what will be commercially successful
• Strong people manager – managing relationships with sales people/other departments, representatives from partner organisations
• Extremely hard working, committed and passionate
• Happy to be in part a service provider to the sales teams
• (Not a pre-requisite but highly desirable) Has a very good understanding of the IT industry, has worked in a solutions led IT channel or services provider.
• Experience of developing outstanding web sites, intranets, collateral
• Ability to get things done, happy to lead by example and be hands-on

We would like to hear from experienced, finished articles who have most of the attributes above already or are up and coming stars who may not be there today, but aspire to get there and have the obvious talent to do so. We would look to take the successful candidate on a full or part time basis depending on the individual’s circumstances.

The position is expected to report to the company’s Managing Director.