Brand Manager, OVO
6 Months Fixed-Term Contract
£45-53k
+ On-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£45-53k
+ On-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
2 days 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
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Meticulous, Diplomatic, Empathetic
- We’re looking for someone who’s got a strong eye for great design and a love of excellent copy to come and join the brand team here at OVO
- Have experience building or managing brands, either from an agency or client side
- Have experience in creating or working on brand related content and communications. This could be at a brand or an agency
- Have experience of project management, managing deadlines and stakeholder feedback across multiple streams of work
- Have experience with design tools (such as Photoshop, InDesign or Canva) and know how to make great creative assets. You’ll also know why something doesn’t look right, and how to manage others to rectify that
- Are confident delivering feedback to stakeholders and brief owners to help make sure assets are on brand
- Have a passion for brand, branding and brand management as a tool for a successful business
- Are empathetic and actively seek out other perspectives
- Are confident speaking in front of large & small groups
- Are ambitious and want to learn new skills and develop
- Have a natural interest in production and design trends
- Are able to see the positive side of any situation, and bring others on that journey with you – a natural optimist
- Love a role where no two days are the same
- Have a particular affection for the colour green and an ability to find the interesting angle to everything
What the job involves
- This role in 3 words: Creative, Organised, Dynamic
- Reporting to: Lottie Pettinger, Brand Lead
- Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen.
- Our brand strategy & management team are responsible for creating the frameworks for our brand - think brand positioning, guidelines & brand toolkits.
- Ultimately helping the business work towards our common goal - making energy work for people and planet. Looking forward, in 2025 we’ll be supporting teams across the business to get the most out of our brand.
- Helping them to understand and use the tools that we have and manage the creation of the assets that we don’t
- You’ll be reporting into our Lead Brand Manager as part of a small Brand Strategy & Management team.
- We’re part of a broader Brand & Marketing team - so work closely with Corporate Affairs, Brand Marketing, our Creative Studio and our PR & Social team. You’ll also forge strong cross functional relationships with teams all across OVO - from product and tech to CRM and customer Care
- We’re looking for an experienced and effective Brand Manager to join our team as we cement and evolve our brand world
- Over the last 18 months we’ve launched and rolled out our revised visual identity, and we couldn't be prouder of it
- Now the focus is on maintaining, evolving where needed - and making sure that teams have everything that they need
- This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to develop their experience managing a brand in a fast-paced and ever-evolving industry
- Reporting into our Lead Brand Manager, you’ll work cross functionally - regularly interfacing with our creative studio, other departments and our agency partners
- Maintaining our Brand toolkit:
- Leading the creation of new brand assets, and briefing our creative studio/external agency partners - think photoshoots, video shoots, icons, illustrations and more
- Leading on project management and timings for Brand projects
- Keeping our Digital Asset Management system up to date and making sure that we have the right assets available for teams to use
- Identifying gaps in our Brand toolkit, and proactively working on filling them
- Creating on-brand assets on an ad-hoc basis
- Brand Management:
- Leading on the day to day delivery of key brand projects
- Be the key Brand Partner for teams across the business - you’ll be the person that teams want to go to for guidance on our Brand strategy and guidelines. Working with those teams to make them understand the value and power of the brand
- Helping to train the business in all things brand
- Leading on the organisation and planning of larger scale brand projects like Design or Tone of Voice training and template roll out
- Working with teams to understand what templates and guidance they’re missing or need
- Leading our brand management & review process, helping teams to understand what’s not on brand, why - and how they get there
- Advocating for brand, getting teams across the business educated & excited about the impact that brand can have for their product area
- Understanding the brand strategy, and making sure all touchpoints are consistent with it
- Within your first 3 months month you’ll:
- Become our go-to brand expert - knowing our strategy, guidelines and tone of voice inside and out
- Be confident in shaping experiences and propositions to be on brand & upskilling others in the business to better understand our brand
- Be very familiar with OVO’s customer experience and products
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
Some 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
$252.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$252.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $544.6m
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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