Brand, Advertising and Sponsorship Executive

About the Role

Base Location: Belfast or Dublin (this is a hybrid role with 2 days per week based in one of our offices)

Salary: £40,000 – £44,000 (NI) or €58,000 – €63,000 (ROI) + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

What is the Role?

As our Brand, Advertising and Sponsorship Executive, you will support and position SSE Airtricity (Ireland/NI) and SSE Energy Solutions (GB) as preferred suppliers within their respective markets. Working closely with the wider Brand, Advertising and Sponsorship team, this role will share responsibility to build strong brand foundations that will drive brand awareness and consideration, bring brand values to life through all customer touchpoints and ensure strong, effective, quality communications to drive lead generation. As part of your role, you will:

– Help to develop and execute integrated brand and tactical campaigns to increase brand awareness, consideration, and positive sentiment.

– Support the development and execution of sponsorship and partnership strategy to ensure commercial focus and differentiation.

– Manage key relationships with 3rd party agencies and internal teams to ensure campaign integration and KPI delivery.

– Identify cost-effective PR and brand building opportunities and working with colleagues to deliver effective communications.

– Support budget and timeline management for campaigns, ensuring smooth execution of initiatives.

**We cannot provide sponsorship or fully remote working for this role.**

What do I need?

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

– Demonstrable experience working in a brand specific or sponsorship role.

– A background in creating marketing campaigns for a range of integrated media channels.

– Strong project management skills, capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously.

– The ability to build strong, effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

– Excellent communication skills to convey brand messages clearly and consistently.

About our Business

SSE is a multinational energy company listed on the FTSE 100, with a vision “to be a leading energy company in a net zero world“. Were investing £20.5bn+ by the end of the decade to help deliver our Net Zero Acceleration Programme.

Part of SSE Plc, Energy Customer Solutions is the Customer facing division – providing energy and low carbon solutions to over 1.3million customers. We have a strong market position with great customer relationships and expert customer teams working in Belfast, Cardiff, Dublin, Perth, and Reading. ​

In Great Britain we operate under the brand SSE Energy Solutions providing energy and related energy solutions (EV, Solar, Smart, Heating & Cooling etc) to businesses of all sizes and public sector organisations across Great Britain.

In Ireland – we operate under the brand SSE Airtricity providing energy and related energy solutions (Solar, EV etc) to homes, businesses including public sector organisations across the island of Ireland.

We have ambitious targets to help our customers on their journey to Net Zero by increasing the accessibility of green energy solutions through the provision of customer-driven propositions and were a partner to customers and stakeholders as they seek ways to respond to the climate crisis.

Help us power change.

Whats in it for you?

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement (including public holidays), enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for ‘Inclusion & Diversity at SSE to find out more.

Next Steps

All applications should be submitted online, and we’ll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Andy on 01738 340826.

Before commencing employment with SSE, you’ll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process.