Digital & Communications Manager, OVO
12-month Fixed-Term Contract
£42.1-60.6k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%.
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Posted today
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Posted today
£42.1-60.6k
+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%.
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- A strategic mindset and can-do attitude with the ability to be both creative and results-oriented are essential for this role
- Have experience in a startup or a fast-paced and tech-first environment
- Have experience in crafting compelling messaging from a product marketing perspective
- A knowledge of the electric vehicle sector is preferred
- Have experience working with product, commercial and technology teams
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to engage audiences at senior exec and C-suite level
- Effective communication skills
- Able to operate at a high level independently
- Skilled at writing with an ability to explain complex topics and issues in a way that is accessible to a wide range of audiences
- Adaptable and flexible approach to plans and able to respond confidently and positively to changing scenarios
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication, creative thinker, customer-focused
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Marketing lead
- This role in 3 words: Optimisation, Communication, Collaboration,
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication, creative thinker, customer-focused
- As a Digital & Communications Manager, you’ll be working with the Marketing Lead at a really exciting time for the OVO Charge app and wider Drive team here at OVO
- You’ll create creative and impactful copy and messaging that positions OVO Charge as a market leader, testing messaging across different platforms for maximum impact - including on the App and Play Stores, partnership campaigns and other marketing mediums
- You’ll work with the in-house Creative Studio to create, submit and manage creative briefs
- You’ll work closely with the Commercial team to support new and existing partnerships through the ideation and creation of exciting marketing campaigns
- You’ll work with the Product team to action GTM strategies for new app updates and product launches
- Be responsible for the marketing copywriting for OVO Charge, including marketing emails, notifications, ad-hoc copy and any reviews required by other teams
- Work with Brand & Legal teams to ensure OVO Charge positioning fits with the wider OVO brand strategy and meets legal requirements
- Work with the in-house Creative Studio to create, submit and manage compelling creative briefs
- Manage stakeholder review for briefs you have submitted
- Submit and manage briefs to content designers for briefs you have submitted
- Work with Charge Anywhere’s Commercial team on any partner marketing required for new and existing partnerships - such as PR and social posts
- Align with OVO’s main media teams on commercial partnership deliverables
- Scope potential partnership opportunities across digital channels and bring these to life, attaining the necessary permissions from wider OVO teams
- Create the content required for ad-hoc marketing requests and campaigns
- Help implement the overall marketing strategy and product GTM strategies
- Implement App Store Optimisation Strategies on App and Play Stores
- Work with Marketing Lead and Brand Strategy team on proposition messaging
- Ensure proposition messaging is consistent throughout all touchpoints - landing pages, emails, in-app, SEO
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$249m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$249m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $536.5m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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