Communications & Marketing Specialist

**About Trailstone**

Trailstone is a global energy and technology company, operating at the intersection of renewable and conventional power. We trade energy in global markets, and we provide a best-in-class service to manage the inherent intermittency of renewable power generation across the short, medium and long term.

As an energy trader, we buy and sell electricity and gas which is physically delivered on the grids, and we leverage our physical market knowledge to trade financial commodities.

As a provider of renewable energy management services, we take on the complexity of managing renewable power across different countries so that our customers can focus on their core mission of investment and growth. Trailstone offers an efficient, fully automated front-to-back renewable power management platform underpinned by our long-standing market experience, proprietary technology, data analytics and meteorology.

**Role Profile: Communications & Marketing Specialist (Austin, Berlin, or London)**

Trailstone is seeking a communications and marketing specialist to coordinate and deliver its global communications and marketing strategy on a full-time, permanent basis.

The post-holder can expect to receive a generous salary and bonus package, commensurate with their talent and experience. We are happy to facilitate a hybrid working pattern, but several days in the office each week is required.

**Responsibilities**
- Manage all internal and external communications and marketing, with the aim of raising the profile of the company and positioning Trailstone as a catalyst and trailblazer within the energy transition.
- Work with key internal and external stakeholders to harness social and conventional media, create content and success stories, and execute marketing events, press coverage, speaking engagements and other tactics that promote our mission of making sustainable energy sustainable.
- Develop and execute a communications and marketing plan in conjunction with senior management and business leaders, with clear, tangible objectives and key performance indicators.
- Collaborate with senior management and HR to ensure employees are kept informed of organisational news, announcements and activity across multiple channels and tools (including intranet, meetings, and events), and help to develop a values-driven and communicative culture.
- Curate and manage the social media accounts of the senior management team and key business leaders.
- Plan, create and deliver communications and marketing content and activities to deliver clear, consistent messaging across all channels, ensuring alignment with Trailstone's branding, mission and values.

**Requirements**:

- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Substantive internal and external communications and marketing experience in a firm, ideally with multi-country presence, involved in energy transition issues,. Experience within a stand-alone communications or marketing role is preferred but not required.
- Specific experience working with a variety of social media platforms, and demonstrable experience in building followers and engagement.
- Specific experience raising the external profile of a business through earned media coverage, speaking engagements, and other high-visibility activities.
- Experience leading, or playing a key role in, the development of a tailored communications and/or marketing strategy.
- Employee communications experience.
- Excellent writing skills, and ability to deliver complex and technical messages in a clear and compelling way across a variety of channels.
- Strong IT skills and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint.

**Other Attributes**
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage in effective, direct communication across different levels of seniority with colleagues globally.
- Ability to effectively prioritise tasks and consistently deliver high quality work, balancing a strategic approach with day-to-day priorities.
- Strong networking skills, with ability to build internal and external networks, and generate content leads.
- A highly analytical, logical and detail-oriented working style.
- Ability to act consistently as a team player; build relationships with the wider business, with willingness to get stuck into tasks outside of usual remit where needed.
- Experience of analysing and reporting on data.

**We're different, and we like it that way**

Here at Trailstone, we value our differences. In fact, our success depends upon them.

Differences in backgrounds, identities and experiences lead to differing views of the world. Different world views lead to healthy differences in opinions. Different opinions are essential to creating a robust marketplace of ideas. And it is our ideas that will make Trailstone a market leader in energy innovation and disruption

By our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, Trailstone is creating value for our employees, our