Head of Marketing & Communications (Maternity leave cover)

We’re looking for a Head of Marketing & Communications to join our world-class Marketing team at Talent International! This is a 6 month FTC (Marketing leave cover) role.

You’ll own the marketing and communications agenda, shaping strategy, partnering with executive leadership, and driving alignment across the business to support growth. From big-picture FY27 planning to day-to-day leadership, you’ll sit at the centre of how Talent shows up to market.

As Talent’s Head of Marketing & Communications, you’ll be involved across all aspect of our team’s activity. This includes:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Marketing team, setting clear direction, priorities, and accountability to deliver aligned marketing and communications outcomes.
• Own and lead the development and execution of the FY27 marketing and communications strategy, ensuring integration across business growth objectives.
• Partner closely with sales and executive leadership to align marketing strategy, messaging, and go-to-market initiatives with commercial priorities.
• Act as a senior stakeholder lead for marketing and communications, providing regular insights, performance reporting, and strategic recommendations to Executive Leadership.
• Establish and track key performance metrics to measure effectiveness, ROI, and impact of marketing and communications initiatives.
• Maintain crisis communication and issues management frameworks to protect and enhance organisational reputation.
• Manage the marketing and communications budget and external agency relationships to ensure effective delivery against FY27 priorities.
• Ensure governance, consistency, and compliance across all marketing and communications activity.
• Support the development of communication, inbound marketing, and public relations strategies that build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead internal engagement and change communications to support adoption of the organisational strategic plan, ensuring clarity, alignment, and momentum across all business units.
• Lead the strategic design and content development for the organisation’s annual conference, partnering with the executive team to bring this to life.