Marketing and Communications Lead

**Marketing and Communications Lead**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**About us**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include large numbers of households as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

It's an extremely rewarding experience, being able to harness smart and innovative technologies to help integrate renewables into the network and drive progress on climate change. Because every day, you're helping solve some of the biggest energy challenges of our generation.

Also, the electricity industry is going through significant transformation and our businesses are at the centre of it. Supporting a clean energy future, our electricity networks provide a gateway to renewables and choices such as solar, batteries and electric vehicles.

**About the role**:
Reporting to the Head of Marketing and Communications, you’ll be responsible for developing and implementing integrated marketing and communications strategies and campaigns for products, services and projects that build and develop relationships between our networks, their customers, communities and our employees.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract role for a parental leave cover.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Act as a trusted adviser, providing strategic advice and recommendations about marketing and communication strategy and activities to key stakeholders (in-line with objectives and budget).
- Develop and execute marketing and communication plans informed by data, analytics and insights from available research and benchmarks.
- Incorporate compelling value propositions and creative ideas.
- Collaborate with and the broader Corporate Affairs team and other business units relevant to each initiative.
- Manage external agencies, including but not limited, to advertising, graphic design, photography and digital services.
- Effectively project manage each project or campaign and achieve the desired objectives for identified audiences.
- Develop detailed project plans where tasks are clearly defined, and actions are clearly specified.
- Translate complex concepts and technical material into content that is tailored for multiple internal and external channels.
- Ensure communications and marketing activity is focussed on delivering high-quality results for customers, stakeholders and employees.

**To succeed in the role you’ll have**:

- Extensive work experience in designing, project managing and implementing end-to-end multi-channel communication and marketing campaigns, devising insight-led strategies to achieve defined outcomes, gained in corporate and/or consulting organisations.
- Working experience within (or for) a company that operates in a highly regulated environment such as energy or utilities.
- Strong understanding of the energy transition and the work being undertaken across the industry to enable it.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and experience effectively influencing key stakeholders.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong project management skills.

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**
- If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us._

OUR VALUES: Live safely, Be Customer and Community Minded, Succeed Together, Be The Best You Can Be, Improve Our Business

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