Role: Marketing Collaboration Lead
Salary: Up to £29,000pa
Location: Hybrid/Kings Hill, Kent

Why Join CSG?

CSG is striving to be recognised as the global leader in Education and Public Sector services, currently operating in 86 countries, with 1,800 staff across 30 trading brands, providing expertise ranging from: HR Services, IT Services, Energy, Education Resources, Procurement and many more. Currently growing at a rate of 25% each year, CSG has expanded via an innovative buy and build model delivering an important mix of organic growth, acquisitions and strategic joint venture partnerships. Therefore, it is an exciting and interesting time to join a growing organisation and be part of shaping the future of CSG.

What You’ll Bring:

Procurement Services is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual to support their growth by becoming our Marketing Collaboration Lead, responsible for driving brand awareness and sector penetration via a strategic marketing plan. The individual will be responsible for collaborating with suppliers and partners on brand opportunities, leading the coordination of exhibitions, roundtables, webinars, and various other activities, will lead on PR opportunities and will be responsible for planning innovative strategies to enhance brand visibility across the public sector.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating strong marketing collaborations, possess commercial acumen, and bring a creative vision to the table. You will need to be proactive, with a self-starting attitude and the ability to work in a fast-paced, growing business.

What You’ll Achieve:

As a Marketing Collaboration Lead, you will:

• Develop and execute publicity strategies, including writing presentations, articles, and press releases to enhance brand visibility
• Lead coordination of Procurement Services exhibitions and events, ensuring alignment on graphics, communications, and logistics with the marketing team
• Collaborate with suppliers and partners to create brand awareness opportunities through webinars, panel discussions, and other activities
• Attend exhibitions to gather market intelligence, track trends, and provide insights for future marketing strategies
• Report on KPIs, event performance, and media coverage, offering insights to shape future campaigns
• Manage event budgets and timelines, conduct market research for new opportunities, and drive collaborative activities to support business growth

What We Offer:

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday to celebrate as you wish
• Access to a generous discount scheme, including retail and gym memberships
• Life assurance coverage
• Health cash plan initiative
• Companywide events

What We Require:

• Proven experience of event management and co-ordination of all requirements for exhibitions, events, open days and visits
• Experience of creating press releases, articles and other industry relevant content for publications
• Strong use of LinkedIn and other social platforms to share campaign messaging, increase engagement, following and presence within social networks
• Able to work effectively, contributing and collaborating with  your team, sharing ideas and driving forward with business objectives
• Ability to build and sustain strong working relationships across multiple teams

About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is the largest, local authority-owned trading company (LATCO) in the UK, wholly owned by Kent County Council. CSG generates over £800m in revenue per annum and provides services to over 16,000 education and public sector customers globally.

About Procurement Services

We are a market-leading procurement services business, and our focus is on providing compliant routes for the UK public sector to procure products and services from local, national and global suppliers.

Working across all public sector verticals, our teams support buyers from local authorities, central government bodies, NHS trusts, educational establishments and many others, in identifying their procurement needs and offering a compliant framework to deliver on their requirements.