Marketing & Communications Associate - #1780663

About The Job

Marketing & Communications Associate

London, N4

4 days in our office, 1 day working from home

Reporting to Inés Cid Blasco, Commercial Director

£34-40k per annum

About Shellworks

Developed for a throwaway culture, plastics have caused significant pollution to our natural environments. 90% of all plastics ever created have never been recycled, causing widespread pollution and health impacts from chemicals and microplastics.

We believe there must be a better way and our first innovation Vivomer does just that, if nature made a plastic this would be it. Vivomer, a polymer made by microorganisms, behaves just like plastic in use, but degrades naturally upon disposal. It can be rigid or flexible, matte or glossy. Developed through cutting-edge material science, mechanical engineering, design, and operations, Vivomer represents a groundbreaking step towards a pollution-free future.

The nature of our work is frequently described as impossible, but if like us, you’re driven by the challenge to prove that there is a better way to do things, join us.

About The Role

This is a unique opportunity to work alongside Shellworks’ founders and early team to scale the future of materials inspired by nature. You'll gain hands-on experience in scaling and growing a startup, tackling a variety of challenges, and cultivating a mindset focused on achieving impactful goals. The role spans across marketing, business development, customer support and even a little composting! Expect to work with a positive, passionate, ambitious, incredibly inter-disciplinary team and have high levels of autonomy to create meaningful environmental impact.

When you join us you'll:

• Drive Brand Awareness: Drive marketing content to support the commercial team in creating brand awareness and generating inbound inquiries
• Help create impactful brand assets: Work with design and engineering to document the composting progress of partner’s packaging
• Gather customer feedback: Create a defined process to gather customer testimonials and support senior sales leaders to leverage customer insights for marketing content
• Automate processes: With the help of your manager, and our content lead create automated sequences to follow up with our clients in a more streamlined way
  
  

Our Ideal Candidate

Must-haves:

• You are passionate about solving the plastic waste crisis
• You believe that the high autonomy environment of an early-stage start-up is the right place to unleash your potential
• You enjoy marketing and communications, talking to customers and helping them solve their problems
• You enjoy the relationship management side of sales: keeping clients informed, seeking out opportunities for improved collaboration, etc.
• You're a critical thinker who will constantly strive to improve your own work, the processes in place, and politely challenge the status quo
  
  

Nice-to-haves:

• You have above average knowledge of key issues such as recyclability rates and microplastic pollution and the problems associated with these
• You speak another language fluently besides English; ideally French or German
• You have a BA or MSc in science, maths, engineering, microbiology, etc.
• You have previous experience working at a climate-first or ESG-first organisation
• You have a network in the beauty, personal care, nutraceuticals, or home care industries
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Marketing Strategy & Execution:
• Work closely with leadership and the design team to execute on the strategy with the right brand voice and effective assets (e.g., Newsletter, partnership announcements, company updates, new development news, etc.)
• Content creation and delivery of engagement funnels
• Craft communication strategy using market insights, sustainability and health insights and customer feedback
• Create Visual Vivomer Assets:
• Coordinate compost work and photography/videography to produce customer launch materials
• Own Event Management & Social media engagement:
• Identify the key events leadership and commercial team should attend with your manager's support
• Create event plans and the necessary physical and visual assets
• Leverage social media groups to build relationships with key people in target industries: beauty, personal care, plastic-free, etc.
• Engage prospective customers with valuable content and discussions online
• Own the customer sample process:
• Packing and sending samples to prospective customers based on team requests
• Identify areas of opportunity to optimise samples, process and execute improvements
  

Our Benefits

25 days in addition to all statutory and public holidays

Opportunities for growth and development as we expand and scale our impact

Free lunch provided and access to a fully kitted out kitchen

Competitive salary and equity options

Regular social events

Part of a tightly knit team aiming to make a meaningful social impact

Hiring Process

Initial Chat

Technical task

Onsite

Our Values

It Can Be Done We believe anything is possible. We're action-oriented doers who jump in to proactively solve challenges.

Masters of Our Craft Driven by curiosity, we constantly expand our skills to deliver work that exceeds expectations.

Ambitious By Nature We set ambitious goals and push ourselves beyond comfort zones, taking ownership of the journey.

We're Singular We operate as one cohesive team, valuing our diversity and putting the mission above egos or silos.