Senior Corporate and Consumer Communications Manager

Formula 1 is the fastest growing sport in the world, attracting millions of new fans every year. As we continue our growth globally, we are looking for a Senior Corporate and Consumer Communications Manager to drive our corporate and consumer communications activity to promote the sport and the brand globally.\\n\\nMain Duties and Responsibilities\\n\\n * Deliver global corporate and consumer coverage that tells the F1 story to a broad media audience through:\\n\\n * Developing and implementing global consumer/lifestyle and corporate communications strategies.\\n\\n * Telling our natural news stories, including our ESG and DE&I efforts, as well as partnership, licensing, media rights and race promotion activity in a compelling and engaging way.\\n\\n * Managing F1’s global PR activity both through the team, F1’s global PR agency, VCCP and smaller agencies in China and India, as well as the promoters in each market.\\n\\n * Proactively developing excellent relationships both around the business, with external stakeholders and with the media.\\n\\n * Building campaigns that showcase the business’s key priorities over time and creating a drumbeat of news.\\n\\n * Story-mining around the business to develop new ideas and angles.\\n\\n * Rigorous forward planning and production of comms plans, materials and assets well in advance of announcement.\\n\\n * Proactively building and maintaining strong relationships both\\n\\n * Managing the team to deliver all activity to the highest standards and to deadline.\\n\\n * Operating as a key press office team member at a number of races.\\n\\n * Supporting the broader comms team to deliver activity at races.\\n\\n * Working across the business, with our teams, promoters, and global partners to ensure that we are capturing and telling stories from across the F1 community.\\n\\n * Drafting, proofing, and issuing communications materials including press releases, media briefings, journalist information packs and content for F1’s corporate social channels and website.\\n\\n * Working with the other communications channels (F1 .com, social media, F1 TV) to lead and coordinate activity.\\n\\n * Working as a senior member of the F1 comms team acting as a trusted advisor across the business.\\n\\n * Working alongside the Senior Motorsport Communications Manager to coordinate and deliver plans.\\n\\nAbout You\\n\\n * Extensive experience working in an in-house communications team or PR agency for large and well-known brands with a 24/7 culture, with responsibility for developing and delivering corporate, consumer and international strategies and activity.\\n\\n * A proven track record of delivering coverage within global consumer and corporate media.\\n\\n * Experienced in handling crisis situations.\\n\\n * People management experience.\\n\\n * Agency management experience preferred.\\n\\n * Thoroughly experienced at working with social media.\\n\\n * Demonstrate a strong understanding of the global news agenda.\\n\\n * Be prepared to work outside office hours, both during a normal working week and at races.\\n\\n * Write, edit, and proofread impeccably.\\n\\n * Have excellent verbal skills and be able to persuade and influence with gravitas.\\n\\n * Confidently advise senior executives.\\n\\n * Ideally speak two or more languages