Director of Marketing and Communications

Overview

We are designing the grid of the future! 

EPE is looking for a next generation marketing and communications innovator to help lead strategic marketing efforts to support our business goals. This key role is responsible for supporting the promotion and delivery of world-class consultative services and software products in two major market sectors in the energy industry, making a significant impact on the future of energy.

The Director of Marketing and Communications plays a pivotal role in leading EPE’s business unit marketing efforts to achieve direct measurable outcomes. Key performance indicators (KPIs) demonstrating growth in thought leadership, business leads, sales, and business unit branding will guide the Directors success. In close collaboration with the Vice President, the Director will partner with business unit leads to oversee the development and execution of comprehensive marketing strategies. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to drive the business unit’s growth objectives. In this capacity, you will proactively identify growth and enhancement opportunities for the business unit while developing and deploying marketing initiatives and assets, evolving and maintaining EPE’s website content, optimizing social media presence, lead generation, and email marketing through the Salesforce marketing platform, participating in trade show engagement, and leading market research. Your contributions will directly impact EPE's growth and success.

This role will proactively shape the respective business unit's reputation, raise brand and value proposition awareness, and generating leads that drive revenue growth – all directly contributing to EPE’s growth goals and market leadership.

Responsibilities

How you can make an impact:

• Develop, evaluate, and implement an overall marketing strategy for EPE’s business unit.
• Formulate, direct, and coordinate marketing activities to scope and execute marketing strategies to reach different customer segments.
• Determine and propose innovative ideas as part of EPE’s Business Development Team to help EPE meet growth objectives for customers, sales, and brand awareness.
• Advance EPE’s brand and market position. Following company guidelines, develop and drive consistent EPE branding and messaging content adoption and proliferation.
• Establish and implement marketing plans to increase EPE’s digital and social media presence on platforms like LinkedIn; proactively craft and deliver social media content to amplify voice and thought leadership of key EPE executives.
• Ensure brand consistency in all marketing efforts.
• Manage and maintain EPE’s brand identity and voice through EPE’s webpage design and content; appropriately use graphics, videos, text, and layout to optimize user experience.
• Lead EPE’s business unit market research efforts to assist in developing sales strategies for different markets; develop product positioning and messaging informed by user research, market insights/trends, competitive activities, and product understanding.
• Create and analyze qualitative and quantitative metrics that measure program effectiveness to report to relevant stakeholders. Oversee the business unit aspect of EPE’s Marketing KPI dashboard. Further drive the Marketing Analytics and Insights program, by leading:
  • CRM integration.
  • Analyzing marketing data and metrics to measure campaign effectiveness.
  • Generating insights and recommendations for optimizing marketing strategies.
  • Utilizing analytics tools to track ROI and attribution across marketing channels.
• Drive content marketing initiatives, including, but not limited to:
  • Creating engaging content for various platforms (blogs, videos, infographics, etc.).
  • Developing content marketing strategies to attract and retain customers.
• Collaborating with other teams for content distribution and promotion
• Generate leads through savvy marketing strategies and tactics. Attract prospective clients that lead to company growth through accuracy, clarity, consistency, and relevance.
• Manages brand positioning and messaging across all channels, including generating all business unit marketing materials, including emails, handouts for trade shows, brochures, customer communications, presentations, and other materials.
•  Lead product marketing initiatives by developing product/services positioning and messaging strategies, as well as creating sales enablement materials and product collateral
• Manage and engage agency vendors for communications, design, and tactical support.
• Drive and coordinate creative design and campaign deliverables with internal and external resources.
• In collaboration with the Trade Shows & Events lead, lead EPE’s trade show strategy and budget development with the business unit leader.
• Collaborate with business unit leaders and internal technical experts to define EPE products and services, customer relevance, and value propositions.

Qualifications

Bring your passion, here's what’s needed:

• Fluent understanding of marketing principles and best practices in today’s dynamic landscape.
• Engineering and consulting industry experience is strongly desired.
• Working knowledge of power generation industry and large (commercial and industrial) load development power needs a plus. 
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal. Skilled at translating complex technical subject matter for non-technical audiences.
• Strong technical and report writing skills. Great presenter, including PowerPoint decks.
• Excellent time management, organizational, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Flexible with the ability to manage change, problem-solve, and meet deadlines.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. In certain circumstances, appropriate work/sales experience may substitute for this educational requirement.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience in marketing.
• Relevant marketing experience in the electric utility industry or renewable energy industry.
• Relevant marketing experience working for an engineering consulting organization.
• Strong understanding of branding fundamentals, including brand, product, and thought leadership positioning.
• At least three (3) years’ experience managing direct reports and external vendors.
• Demonstrated experience in web content maintenance utilizing WordPress.
• Demonstrated experience creating and deploying marketing materials for multiple mediums such as graphics, print, photos, and video. Mastery of owned media content deployment across web, email marketing, collateral, and event presence.
• Demonstrated experience in market research and persona development.
• Strong digital marketing experience, including paid and organic social media marketing. Demonstrated experience leveraging platforms like LinkedIn, blogs, and video sites.
• Advanced user in Salesforce and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Creative Suite (Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop). Experience with project management apps.

Join us in leading the change!

Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence.  For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers, (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient gid.   Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)

Location: This position will be located in our corporate office in Austin, TX, may consider highly qualified remote candidates

Travel:  Occasional travel will be needed (25% or less)

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster

If you are interested in applying for employment with EPE and need special assistance to apply for a posted position, please send an email to: [email protected]

Third-Party Recruiting Notification

EPE does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to EPE via our career page or to any of our managers or employees will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency. EPE will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed third-party agreement and has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Talent Acquisition team.