🧑🏿💻 Marketing and Communications Manager 👩🏽💻
Nairobi 🇰🇪, Lagos 🇳🇬, London 🇬🇧
Deadline: January 1st, 2025
About Us
Briter Bridges is a market intelligence firm specialising in emerging markets, especially across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Our data-driven insights empower businesses, governments, and investors to make informed decisions that support socio-economic development. Through our reports, dashboards, and digital tools, we connect the dots between data, innovation, and impactful opportunities.
The Role
We’re growing rapidly and looking for an experienced and creative Marketing and Communications Manager to propel us into our next phase of development. You will lead our communications strategy, shape our brand presence, and amplify our impact across a diverse range of stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
🥇 Stakeholder Engagement: You’ll interact with high-profile clients, from Fortune 500 companies to governments and investors. Lead internal and external communications, including planning, scheduling, and coordinating content development, social media activity, and performance tracking. Inform the Management about emerging opportunities, requests, and issues.
🤩 Brand Consistency: Our brand is a core part of our identity, crafted to deliver information effectively to diverse audiences. Ensure that our brand ethos—purposeful, inclusive, fresh, and dynamic—permeates all publications and engagements. Research and analyse competing brands to guide our templates, content series, and social media agenda, ensuring alignment with Briter’s mission.
📔 Publication Management: Oversee the design and distribution of Briter’s flagship publications and client content. You’ll hire and coordinate with designers, editors, and research team members, ensuring each publication adheres to branding guidelines and uses appropriate language for our audience.
📣 Digital Marketing and Campaigns: Design and implement creative campaigns to extend our reach. Prepare briefs and highly targeted campaigns for each publication and project. Drive social media content creation, event coordination, speaking opportunities, and in-person and virtual engagements, with content often based on our platform and publications.
🤝 Event Planning and Coordination: As active participants in emerging market ecosystems, we attend, sponsor, and host global events. You’ll lead the planning and execution of external and internal events, coordinating logistics and communications to maximise our presence and impact.
The Ideal Candidate Will:
Have 3-5+ years of experience in marketing, branding, and communications, ideally within business, innovation, and investment sectors in emerging markets
Be proficient with CMS, task, and social media management tools, including WordPress, newsletter platforms, Monday.com, Figma, Illustrator, and Adobe Premiere Pro
Exhibit excellent attention to detail and demonstrable experience in copyediting reports, infographics, whitepapers, and social media content
Bring creative energy and fresh ideas to the team, with a genuine passion for socio-economic development and innovation in emerging markets
Have a strong eye for modern and digital design trends
Be adept at multitasking and project management in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to lead teams and manage collaborations effectively
Exhibit strong critical thinking and interest in data-driven information
Be an excellent communicator, qualified in or highly skilled in marketing and communications
Perks and Benefits
🦸🏻 A custom avatar and personalised mug
🏄🏻 Flexibility in hours and the option for hybrid work
💻 Company-provided Macbook Air
🪜 Career progression opportunities within a growing, international team
📍 Co-working space in Nairobi’s vibrant center
🛫 Global travel opportunities and event attendance
📚 Support for professional development and courses to build your skills
🤓 Opportunity to grow your personal brand and network within the industry
To Apply
Please send your CV, cover letter, and portfolio or samples of previous work (e.g., reports, articles, visuals, websites) to jobs[at]briterbridges.com by January 1st, 2025. Use Briter’s Marketing and Communications Manager Application as the email subject. Applications not following this format may not be considered.
About Briter
Briter is on a mission to build the go-to point of reference for emerging markets’ data and our team believes in the ability of better information to drive a proactive, business and opportunity-centred narrative. More and clearer data have the potential to boost business, creative, and investment activity, and Briter has been relentlessly working alongside several public and private stakeholders to create an accessible portal to knowledge about underserved markets.
In May 2020, Briter unveiled ‘Intelligence’, its unrivalled proprietary database and analytics platform which comprises data on private and public sector organisations including SMEs, listed companies, hubs, investors, and ecosystem supporters spanning across Africa and other emerging markets, such as South Asia and the Middle East. Since launching, Intelligence counts over a thousand users and represents a point of reference for several leading institutions globally. Briter are also publishing state of the art research based on the underlying data, and have built leading industry reports with organisations such as the World Bank, FCDO, and the World Food Programme.
Briter saw the light as a digital publication in late 2018 and quickly converted into a data-driven research firm focused on analysing business environments across underserved markets - i.e. those lacking the adequate supply of information able to showcase the number of opportunities they offer. Briter has released the largest collection of visualisations focused on technology ecosystems across Africa, South Asia and MENA and its research has grown to become a point of reference for major corporates, international organisations, governmental institutions, and investors.
Its work has now been featured in major media outlets such as CNN, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Forbes, African Business, Quartz, The Africa Report, and several major regional magazines. Briter’s ultimate goal consists of building a constructive narrative about business, creative, and investment opportunities across underserved economies by means of making more data available and digestible.