Marketing, Events and Engagement Manager

Team Leadership

• Line manage the Senior Events Executive and Scheme Stakeholder Engagement Executive, providing clear direction, development opportunities, and accountability.
• Set objectives, monitor performance, and foster a collaborative, supportive team culture.
• Build trusted relationships with Executive Committee members, senior leaders, and colleagues across Marketing, Communications, and Customer Experience and other business divisions to deliver joined-up engagement activity.
• Work collaboratively with the Motability Foundation, agencies, suppliers, and strategic partners to deliver high-quality events, communications, and stakeholder engagement.
• Continuously review performance, identifying opportunities to improve events, communications, and stakeholder engagement activity through insight, evaluation, and feedback.

This role plays an important part in bringing Motability Operations' values to life by creating meaningful engagement with customers, partners, healthcare professionals, stakeholders, and colleagues.

About You

You'll be an experienced marketing, communications, and engagement professional who enjoys variety and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

• You're equally comfortable leading people, building relationships with senior stakeholders, and rolling up your sleeves to deliver high-quality events, campaigns, and engagement activity.
• You'll have a proven track record in event delivery, sponsorship management, and stakeholder engagement, together with experience leading integrated marketing and communications activity.
• You'll be a confident communicator with excellent organizational skills, able to balance multiple priorities while maintaining high standards and delivering measurable outcomes.

Most importantly, you'll enjoy working collaboratively, bringing creativity, energy, and sound judgment to everything you do, and you'll have a genuine interest in creating inclusive experiences and building partnerships that make a positive difference for disabled people and the wider community.

Essential Criteria

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

• Previous line management experience, with the ability to lead, coach, and develop others.
• Significant experience in marketing, communications, corporate events, or stakeholder engagement within a complex organization.
• A proven track record of planning and delivering successful events, communications, and marketing activity.
• Experience managing sponsorships, strategic partnerships, or ambassador programmes, ideally within sport, disability, community, or purpose-led organizations.
• Experience building strong relationships with Executive leaders, senior stakeholders, external partners, agencies, and suppliers.
• Strong project and budget management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver at pace.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to influence a wide range of audiences.
• Experience developing communications or marketing activity in Scotland, with an understanding of the Scottish business, political, and media landscape.
• Degree-level qualification in Marketing, Communications, Events Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• A genuine interest in creating inclusive experiences and building partnerships that make a positive difference for disabled people and the wider community.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the UK, including to our offices in Edinburgh, Bristol, and London, with occasional overnight stays.
• Flexibility to work outside normal office hours, including occasional evenings and weekends, to support events.
• A full UK driving licence.

This is a fixed term 13-month contract during maternity cover (mid Sept 2026 to mid Oct 2026).

About The Company

We’re the company behind the Motability Scheme. We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers’ mobility in a fast-changing world. We’re the UK’s largest car leasing company and we help over 800,000 people get on the road.

We employ over 1800 people, across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success, so we aim to create an environment that allows our employees to flourish. We look for highly motivated people with a combination of commercial sense and real enthusiasm to meet our customers' needs.

What we do

We lease a wide range of tailored mobility solutions to people who receive one of the Government’s qualifying mobility allowances. Our customers choose a car, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV), scooter, or powered wheelchair that best suits their needs. We take care of their insurance, breakdown, servicing, and more, as part of our worry-free package.

At the end of the lease, our customers can exchange their vehicle for a brand-new model. Each year we sell and move around 200,000 cars. This makes us the largest supplier of single-source vehicles back into the used car market.

The Scheme has been providing affordable, all-inclusive motoring for over 45 years. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, with an independent customer satisfaction rating of 9.6 out of 10.

How we work

We work in a hybrid way. That means remotely for up to two days each week and in our great office spaces the rest of the time. This gives us a good work/life balance and lets us collaborate and deliver for our customers. Visit our website to find out more.

We do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests, where possible, to build on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Our beliefs and values

We believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We want to sustain a nurturing culture. And our people to be rewarded equally, regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do:

• We believe no one should be left behind - We find solutions
• We believe we must take the lead - We drive change
• We believe everything starts with the customer - We care