Salary based on experience + 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays), discretionary bonus, pension scheme, private health insurance. Remote working but onsite meetings as required in London and other Erlang Solutions offices.

Location - London preferred, but other parts of the UK considered for the right person.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Erlang Solutions is a global technology consultancy focused on the Erlang Ecosystem, working with world leading companies to deliver transformative digital solutions. The company is headquartered in London and has teams based in the UK, Poland, Sweden, Hungary and the Americas.

Reporting to the Founder and the COO, the Head of Marketing is a member of the Senior Management Team and will be expected to be able to operate effectively at this level. The role is responsible for leading the team and managing the company’s marketing strategy. Allied to this, the role will involve company branding, marketing of events and generating and managing a marketing strategy to drive customers to the brand and its products and services, creating a high value pipeline of Qualified Leads. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Marketing Leader to take ownership of a global business at a time of exciting change.

• You want to manage a team of marketing professionals - Key to this role is your ability to plan, delegate, report and manage your specialists to ensure that the marketing activities work together to drive business results.
• You love turning business requirements into marketing plans - Erlang Solutions has 5 separate business units, based around the world, with their own growth goals and product strategies. It will be your job to work closely with the Business Unit Leaders to transform their ideas into marketing materials that help us generate new business.
• You use data to inform future plans - Working with niche audiences makes data-driven marketing even more important. You’ll be familiar with Google Analytics, Salesforce, Pardot / Salesforce Marketing Automation cloud and best practices for attribution and be able to set leading and lagging indicators for the team.
• You can recruit, enable and activate stakeholders across the organisation to author and produce stories. Partnering with our talented technical team will be key to your success. You’ll need the ability to identify great stories within the organisation, work with partners to create them and to find the right channel mix to make the most of each story.
• You know how to manage a budget. As the department head you will be responsible for proposing, utilising and managing the marketing budget ensuring that there is tangible return on the overall investment of the team.
• You love a diverse set of professional challenges. From channel marketing and trade show stands to PPC and organic PR, to the next big platform or opportunity that arises, your team is responsible for the growth of the brand. This will give you a rare opportunity to own and work on multiple channels and require an open-mind and a can-do attitude to test, learn and improve your results.

We 're excited about you because you have experience leading and managing a high-performing marketing team with the results to back it up:

You are proactive. In this role you will be responsible for suggesting, developing, implementing and managing the marketing delivery in Erlang Solutions. You will be the expert and the business will expect you to drive the function and deliver results.

• You understand how to build and evaluate integrated marketing campaigns
• You’re a master translator who can condense sophisticated marketing ideas in a way that is easy to understand for our developers and business team and convert the goals of the various leaders into marketing tactics
• You have experience with SEO best practices, managing a Wordpress site, and brand social media accounts
• You’re highly organised and able to manage conflicting deadlines
• You have excellent verbal communication and project management skills
• You are highly collaborative and have the ability to work with stakeholders of all backgrounds and levels
• You have a strong executive presence
• You have experience sourcing and managing a bench of freelancers/ agencies
• You have an obsessive attention to detail and high bar for quality
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, nuance and building programs from scratch
• You have a proactive, solution-oriented, problem-solving mindset - “I’ll figure it out.”
• You thrive in a small, growing, fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or Advertising
• 5+ years experience in marketing with at least 2+ years of management experience
• Experience managing a team of 3 or more
• Experience working in a tech B2B environment