Expiry Date: 16:00, 05 April 2021

Salary: £63,029.00 - £70,940.00 Per Annum

Benefits: Free rail or Metrolink travel to/from work within Greater Manchester and free bus travel within Greater Manchester.

Are you a passionate creative leader seeking an opportunity to help shape the future of transport in Greater Manchester?

Greater Manchester has bold ambitions to be one of the best places in the world to grow up, get on and grow old. Our Transport Strategy 2040, Delivery Plan and Our Network vision sets out our plans to create transport system which supports our city region to support people, businesses and organisations to realise their full potential and to support GM as we recover and build back better from the pandemic.

Effective strategic communications, brand engagement marketing, digital and design underpin the future of Transport in Greater Manchester. We are therefore seeking a highly skilled creative professional to lead a newly reconfigured skilled team to develop, oversee and deliver all aspects of brand, marketing, design and digital communication services. In this role you will be involved in supporting activities for TfGM and for a range of GM partners as required.

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Communications, you will:

• Be a collaborative, credible and influential leader with significant proven experience of leading end to end creative agency style services to public sector clients across a broad range of projects and services
• Have proven experience of delivering insight led, highly effective strategic behaviour change approaches from conception to delivery and monitoring and evaluation
• Have an in depth understanding of the development and delivery of effective brand and marketing strategies which realising organisational objectives and priorities.
• Be an experienced creative communications professional with extensive experience leading the continuous improvement of services within a busy, high profile environment
• Be educated to degree level or have equivalent levels of experience.

The salary for this role is £63,029 - £70,940 per annum. Salary will be based upon skills and experience.

In return, as well as a competitive salary, we also offer a range of fantastic benefits, such as:

• Free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
• Free bus travel within Greater Manchester
• 27 days holiday per annum
• Access to the local government pension scheme

At Transport for Greater Manchester we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are actively building a diverse workforce and want to create an inclusive environment as we recognise the importance of our workforce reflecting the communities we serve.

If you have the skills and experience we are seeking we would love to hear from you!