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HSPG

Head of Marketing & Communications

Manchester, UK Posted 2026-05-21
Type
Full-time
Experience
10+ yr
Source
Greenhouse
THE ESSENTIALS 

Platform: HSPG
Status: Full time, permanent.
Salary: £x
Bonus: TBD
Working arrangement: We typically work 4 days in the office, 1 day from home. 
Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Start: ASAP
Reports to: MD (Group)




THE BENEFITS:
25 holiday days per year; 
4 ‘Me Days’ per year (take a Me Day – focus on you);
Team social events and trips;
Wellness allowance of £70 per month to be used for gym, classes, physio or other wellness costs;
Private healthcare with Vitality;
Mintago financial platform;
Drive Electric salary sacrifice;
Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave;
Employee referral scheme: £2,000 towards a getaway of your choice




HSPG: A social impact real estate company

Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.
There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community.
We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to  acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below.
Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively  acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners.

HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners.  

Core Behaviours:


Core mission:  
Your core mission is to build and protect the reputation,  credibility  and narrative of HSPG across the  housing sector. ​
You will own how the business presents itself externally, ensuring our mission,  expertise  and  partnerships are communicated clearly and consistently. ​
You position HSPG as a credible,  thoughtful  and trusted voice in affordable housing and social impact  real estate, contributing thoughtfully to industry conversations around delivery,  partnerships  and  impact. ​
You translate complex activity across the Group, acquisitions, partnerships, housing  delivery  and  investment, into clear communications that strengthen relationships with investors, developers,  Local  Authorities  and sector stakeholders. ​
You  operate  as a strategic communications partner to the SLT (Senior Leadership Team) while  remaining  hands-on in execution. ​
Your focus is positioning, credibility and engagement across the wider sector on behalf of the group. ​
This role is focused on reputation,  narrative  and sector credibility, rather than consumer marketing or  digital acquisition campaigns.
 
Accountability ​
You are accountable for: ​


• Group marketing and communications strategy. ​

• External messaging and narrative. ​

• PR and media relationships. ​

• Thought leadership and sector positioning. ​

• Marketing materials across the Group. ​

• Marketing budget and allocation. ​

• Consumer marketing campaigns or digital lead gen strategies. ​

You are  not  accountable for: ​


• Shared ownership sales channels. ​

• Property listing portals or lead generation platforms. ​

• Sales conversion or transactional marketing.


Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you.  


• Narrative clarity: ensuring HSPG’s mission and impact ( why ), strategy  ( what ), and  behaviours  ( how ) are communicated simply and consistently. ​

• Sector credibility: ensuring HSPG is known and respected by developers,  Local Authorities, institutional  investors  and housing partners. ​

• Meaningful engagement: connecting with stakeholders in the right forums,  to get (and measure) the right results. ​

• Quality over distractions: focusing on communication that genuinely  strengthens the platform’s reputation and commercial performance. ​

If you measure success purely in clicks or impressions, this role is not for you.

Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert.  


• Strategic communications: translating complex housing and investment activity  into simple, entertaining narratives. ​

• Content creation and ownership: producing high-quality written and visual  materials across multiple channels. ​

• PR and media: securing and managing press opportunities that enhance  credibility  (working with our external agency, Faust). ​

• Hands-on execution: delivering work yourself rather than relying  immediately  on  agencies or large teams ( you are the first marketing hire – no team, no agency ).


Specific experience:  


• 10+ years’ experience in marketing,  communications  or public  affairs. ​

• Evidenced  track record  of building a marketing or  communications function. ​

• Excellent writing and communication capability, and strong  ability to use AI for efficiencies. ​

• Experience  operating  within regulated or policy-influenced  sectors such as housing, real estate,  infrastructure  or the public  sector.

 
90-day wins ​
Early traction and strategic control. ​


• Full audit of existing marketing assets, communications  channels  and data. ​

• Clear marketing and communications roadmap agreed with MD. ​

• Consistent LinkedIn and comms cadence  established  across the Group. ​

• Streamline HSPG front-facing image on  Linkedin , including team profiles. ​

• Improved quality, clarity and  consisteny  of investor materials and external  messaging. ​

• Initial PR opportunities secured to support current transactions and  announcements

12-month impact outcomes ​
Material impact and results within first 12 months. ​


• HSPG  recognised  as a credible and thoughtful voice within the affordable housing  and institutional real estate sectors. ​

• Clear improvement in institutional and developer  perception  of the platform. ​

• Regular inbound conversations with developers, Local  Authorities  and sector  partners. ​

• Consistent pipeline of thought leadership, articles, white papers (an exciting HSPG  version of the ‘norm’!), commentary and sector participation. ​

• High-quality marketing infrastructure in place across website,  content  and  communications. ​

• A clear communications function  established  that supports growth across PPHA,  Seahorse  and future platforms.
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