Marketing jobs
Marketing and business development team
Get creative, shape market presence and drive growth
In our marketing and business development team you’ll help define how the firm is seen, how we show up for clients and how we turn insight into opportunities. You’ll bring the market insight, positioning and messaging, campaign plans, and clear comms, supporting teams across the firm to win work, deepen relationships and protect and grow our reputation.
The work we do is varied and broad. You’ll be the specialist in your given field with scope to lead, influence senior stakeholders and bring ideas to life – while staying close to client needs and the firm’s strategic priorities.
You’ll be part of a supportive team – people pitch in when priorities shift, and there’s always someone on hand to bounce ideas off or sense-check your approach.
It’s an exciting time to join as we’ve strengthened our foundations by investing in our brand and our marketing platforms – so our work has become more strategic and more impactful.
Where you can build your career
We have three core groups in the team, each lead by an experienced manager and all reporting into the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO):
- Brand, communications and digital marketing – own the brand and manage our activities across comms, design, social media, paid media and websites
- Service leads – working closely with senior leaders from across the firm to develop strategic priorities into clear propositions that resonate with our clients; shaping go-to-market plans and creating the events and pitches that open doors
- Business development – nurture one-to-one relationships with prospects and referrers, spotting opportunities and converting conversations into new work
Our current marketing job vacancies
There are no jobs currently available in this team.
We’ve always got new job opportunities in the pipeline.
You can email [email protected] outlining your experience and what you’re looking for and we’ll be in touch.
Supportive culture and clear progression
You’ll have a clear route to grow your skills. Our marketing career matrix shows you what is expected at each level, what the next level involves and how to get there.
While roles vary, there are opportunities to specialise, lead key programmes and progress into senior roles over time. The path goes from coordinator, to executive, senior executive, manager, senior manager and director. You’ll take on broader ownership, with more senior stakeholder partnering and leadership responsibilities as you progress.
In this team no two roles are the same, so you’ll be encouraged to shape your development in a way that fits your strengths. Your progression will supported by stretch projects, coaching, our internal leadership programmes, external courses, as well as career conversations about where you want to go.
We also learn by attending marketing conferences, and with team training events and LinkedIn Learning. You’ll work with colleagues right across the firm, giving you variety and visibility.
People here care deeply about doing great marketing and business development. We genuinely enjoy collaborating, because working together helps us generate stronger ideas, produce higher-quality work and that’s how we take our results to the next level.
We work in a hybrid way. Depending on your location and role, you’ll typically spend at least one to two days a week in the office to collaborate build relationships. We get together in-person quarterly for creative, training and team building activities – and meet up regularly in local hubs (most frequently Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth). We also stay aligned through regular virtual touchpoints: a weekly online team meeting to share priorities and progress, and for regular catch ups in our sub teams.
Meet our marketing team
“I get the chance to really get my teeth into some exciting bigger projects. For example I developed our podcast series. It’s been a steep learning curve, but I’ve loved creating them and meeting some brilliant and interesting people along the way.”
Emma, Brand manager
“I absolutely love our team, everyone is so supportive. We are all creative and get along brilliantly. We meet virtually on Teams twice a week and there are a couple of optional days in the office most weeks. There are the team days too – some are about thinking strategically while others are more about having fun”.
Daisy, Marketing and business development co-ordinator
"I like that we’re encouraged to champion the things we’re passionate about here. For me that has been web accessibility, which means making our digital marketing more inclusive to people with disabilities. We’ve got real momentum around that now – and our first accessible website."
Laura, Digital marketing managerWhy join our marketing team?
You’ll enjoy these roles if any of the following apply:
- You’re an experienced marketer or business development professional who likes to combine creativity with commercial thinking
- You’re an early-career marketer who wants to belong to a good-sized team, with varied work and specialist colleagues to accelerate your development
- You enjoy end-to-end ownership – sharing ideas, shaping plans, influencing decisions, delivering the work and analysing the results
- Your happy place is collaborating and partnering with senior stakeholders
- You thrive on variety – campaigns, comms, content, digital, events, proposals
You’ll be encouraged to bring your point of view, challenge respectfully and put forward ideas. You can take the lead on projects, be recognised for what you deliver, and be supported to grow your skills and confidence. It’s a genuinely inclusive team: you’ll be asked for your views, trusted to take ownership, and you’ll feel seen and acknowledged.
Marketing life at PKF Francis Clark
Marketing jobs FAQs
Most important is who you are. We’re open-minded about where you’ve gained your experience. What matters most is how you work – you communicate clearly, build strong relationships and can manage multiple priorities. We’re also looking for solid experience in marketing and/or business development, gained in any sector. And you’ll need the curiosity and commercial awareness to apply it in a professional services firm.
That we all get on and support each other. We’ve got lots of different skills and levels of experience and everyone has something to offer. It’s great too that if you have a good idea you can run with it and bring in other team members to help, so you can see it through from start to finish.
Getting out of bed and coming to work will be easy – you will enjoy it here. The team is great, we have fun together and we support one another, and every day is different.
We have access to LinkedIn Learning and as members of the PM Forum we also attend online and physical events and conferences. We’re also regulars at the Building Brands marketing conferences in Exeter and Plymouth, keeping our knowledge and networks up-to-date.
We’ve funded many team members to do role-specific training including with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Mark Ritson’s mini MBA. Others have attended Brighton SEO and the Institute of Internal Communications (IoIC) conference.
We also learn loads from each other and share knowledge – team members will often give presentations or run workshops to share specialist knowledge with others.
Opportunities are actively sought and found to give you to best chance to shine and develop your skills.
We recently took on a project doing some marketing for a local charity, giving us the chance to apply our skills in new ways. We enjoyed going deep into their challenges, and their feedback was really positive and they’re taking some of the ideas forward.