Product Marketing and Event Officer

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Product Marketing and Event Officer who is a creative and commercially focused professional and can bring products to life through impactful marketing campaigns and engaging events, driving brand awareness, customer engagement and business growth.

This is a brilliant opportunity for candidates who will be in their element working with other people to understand the latest status of products and campaigns. While you don’t need to be a technical expert, you’ll need to be curious and pro-active, interested in understanding how things work and how they add value to end-users.

The Product Marketing & Events Officer is responsible for developing and delivering marketing campaigns and events that promote products, strengthen brand presence, and support commercial objectives. Working closely with internal stakeholders, customers, and external partners, the role combines strategic planning with hands-on execution to create engaging customer experiences, generate leads, gather market insights, and enhance product visibility across multiple channels.

Who We Are

OpenWorks is a rapidly growing business operating globally with a passion for exceptional engineering and building on a legacy of defence innovation in the North East of England.

Our products provide ultra-high performance, real-time detection, tracking, identification and targeting of dynamic aerial threats. They have been deployed internationally to protect high profile military and civilian assets, and contribute towards the defeat of nuisance, misguided and maliciously deployed drones during operations.

We are very proud to have supported a wide range of law enforcement and military operators, protecting many of the most high profile sites and individuals around the world.

The amazing things we do are only possible because of a dedicated and passionate team.

Security Vetting Information

OpenWorks Engineering operates within the defence sector. As part of our recruitment and onboarding processes, we collect information that may be required to support future security vetting and clearance requirements, should these become necessary during employment.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

Join a high-energy, collaborative team where great ideas thrive, challenges are embraced, and people genuinely love what they do.

Here’s what our benefits have to offer:

Rewarding Success - Competitive salary, starting from £32,000 plus a discretionary annual bonus of up to 25% of salary alongside a structured pay progression framework.

Enhanced Pension – Up to 8% employer-matched contributions to help you plan for the future.

More Time to Recharge – 25 days’ holiday plus public holidays, long-service rewards, and the option to buy up to 5 extra days.

Breakfast & Lunch on Us – Enjoy team breakfasts and freshly prepared lunches every day courtesy of Chef Mark and his team.

Health & Wellbeing – Private healthcare and life assurance for added peace of mind.

Sustainable Travel – Salary sacrifice schemes, including EV car and Cycle to Work options.

Team Socials – Regular events, from quiz nights and football to board games and more.

Learning & Growth – A culture that empowers you to challenge, grow and make an impact, plus a £250 annual learning budget to invest in the development that matters most to you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead on the delivery of conferences, exhibitions and showcases in the UK and overseas, furthering our brand standards, collaborating with our logistics team and giving due attention to the visitor experience
• Work with internal teams to identify targeted messages, and translate those messages into briefs for contractors to develop artwork, booth designs and other assets
• Co-ordinate team of contractors, ensuring delivery is on time and in budget
• Ensure the OpenWorks team is well equipped with event materials at all times including sufficient stock of the latest literature, display items, models and giveaways
• Work with our content team to make sure videos are available to meet the needs of the event, provide information back to the content team to support their digital PR strategies
• Provide briefs to event attendees in good time, ensuring all stakeholders know about requirements for their movements, and any dependencies they may have
• Co-ordinate an event diary across multiple years, support the issuing and collation of invites, and provide onsite diary and logistics support where needed at larger events
• Develop assets to support key campaigns, including co-ordination on new literature, animations, videos and photography / videography
• Work pro-actively with our sales and business development teams to identify opportunities to engage with our markets.

What we’re looking for:

Essential Skills, Experience and Attributes

•  Be curious and pro-active, interested in understanding how things work and how they add value to end-users
• Creative, pro-active and confident to lead projects
• Experience in product marketing or marketing communications, with the ability to translate technical information into clear customer-facing messages
• Experience managing external agencies, contractors and creative suppliers, including briefing and managing delivery against deadlines and budgets
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, including event schedules, campaign assets and associated logistics
• At least 3 years of experience in a similarly fast-paced, technical environment

Desirable Skills, Experience and Attributes

• A relevant qualification or engagement with the Chartered Institute of Marketing or Chartered Institute of Public Relations
• Experience within a technical, engineering, manufacturing, defence or other complex B2B environment
• Experience delivering conferences, exhibitions, trade shows or customer events, ideally including international events
• Experience using CRM, marketing automation or event management platforms would be advantageous

More about us:

Vision

Help protect the territory and airspace of NATO countries and their allies.

Mission

Be a world-leading provider of autonomous technology for Surveillance applications and Defence

Values

Be a Good Egg: Earn respect, have mutual trust and be honest

Do cool stuff: We develop cool tech with an awesome team, and we get stuff done

Be empowered: We are autonomous, reliable and take personal responsibility

We are one team: Look out for each other and the team

Things go wrong: Fail fast, learn and move on

Have fun: We’re doing amazing things with passionate people

We Get It Done: Focus on what matters and work with energy to bring ideas to life