Temporary Brand Advisor

Role: Temporary Brand Advisor - Bradford (one day per week)

Salary: £37K- £45k (this will be pro rata and paid on an hourly rate)

Contract length: 1-3 months, with view of extension

Hours: 9am- 5pm Monday- Friday

Position Overview:

Elevation Recruitment are excited to be recruiting for a national utilities business.

To communicate and engage with customers, colleagues and stakeholders and build trusting relationships that keeps the company relevant giving us the freedom to operate in-line with the company strategy while working towards achieving our vision.

Role specific:

• To drive brand consistency and development ensuring all communication channels used by the organisation adhere to the brand guidelines.
• To drive and manage workflow through the team including our in-house studio and external suppliers/agencies, ensuring realistic timescales are set and met and that plans and processes are put in place
• To support the development of brand related projects and collateral to support the wider business in order to achieve key business objectives.
• To drive creativity, innovation within brand activity to achieve brand objectives.

Brand responsibilities

• Is a key contact within the business to support, advise and add value from a brand perspective via the incoming requests we receive from our internal customers or via larger planned projects.
• Advises team members and other internal colleagues/customers on all things brand, such as, but not limited to:
• Ensuring the look and feel of collateral aligns to the brand guidelines
• Appropriate use of channel/media and offering alternative solutions
• Suitability of comms according to the target audience and offering ways of making it better.
• TOV (tone of voice) and adhering to our guidelines
• Core message and narrative - ensuring this aligns with our broader company narrative, strategy and vision where appropriate.
• Implements the brand guidelines across the business, working with key stakeholders to make sure the guidelines are understood, implemented and fit for purpose.
• Has awareness of ongoing campaign activity via the team members in the wider Brand and Marketing team,) and is able to support and add value form a brand perspective when required.
• Works with the brand team to manage incoming workflow and decide on the best course of action to deliver the branded comms required for the business, such as :
  • Liaising with internal stakeholders to understand their need for comms and can work this into a written brief as well as keeping colleagues informed of progress and timescales of jobs

Skills and Qualifications:

• Significant brand and communication experience
• Excellent organisation skills and able to prioritise workload independently
• Great experience working with Microsoft programmes
• Creative skills to enable strong brand development
• Influencing and communication skills with key stakeholders
• Strong project management and process mapping skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at any one time
• Experience and knowledge of working with creative and print agencies
• Knowledge of channels/selected media and using them to target audiences based on experience and customer insight
• Experience of working in similar brand/communications roles