At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead PR strategy for the UK & Spain, coordinating impactful campaigns and managing media relations.
- Company: Dynamic corporate communications team focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities to mentor junior talent.
- Other info: Join a supportive team with excellent career growth and diverse communication projects.
- Why this job: Shape corporate messaging and make a real impact in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: Strong stakeholder management, creativity, and project management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 64000 - 80000 £ per year.
Develop and maintain UK & Spain (Europe) PR strategy and ensure alignment to wider international and global frameworks/processes.
Plan and coordinate activity around key topics and issues, bringing together business-wide campaigns that focus on regulatory and industry-specific change.
Support wider corporate communications (and marketing) strategy, including product announcements, research insights/thought leadership, wider brand building activity, partner and employer of choice programs.
Communicate our corporate comms strategy, messaging, content and measurement to key stakeholders and ensure alignment.
Manage PR agencies in-region (supporting corporate, B2B and consumer work as needed) and other suppliers (e.g., monitoring and licensing).
Identify and coach on best practice interview procedure/technique with key senior spokespeople for corporate media opportunities (arranging external media training where required).
Develop junior talent (providing coaching to direct reports and mentoring support across the wider Corporate Affairs and Communications function).
Be flexible and work across wider communication projects and activities as required.
Report KPI and evaluation metrics in-region and internationally as required (ensuring activity aligns with wider business strategic goals).
Maintain core materials necessary for delivering the ongoing corporate programme (e.g., overall strategy, tactical/activity planners, key message and briefing documents, media contact lists, issues trackers, capacity planning).
Strong media awareness – opportunity spotting and providing insight to the wider business as a key aspect of the role (develop wider insight and feedback tools, including competitor tracking).
Be a key member of the crisis/incident communications team (DIRT – Data Incident Response Team).
Advise on wider related communication matters (speeches/events) and provide ad-hoc consultancy advice directly to the senior team and wider Group functions as required.
Support for priority client communications that impact our corporate reputation.
Manage the in-region internal communications program, working closely with the Director of International Internal Communications.
Enable wider internal and external stakeholder outreach as required, facilitating knowledge sharing and coordination for key initiatives.
Qualifications
- Strong stakeholder management
- Collaboration and relationship building
- Quick assimilation of complicated and technical information
- Highly developed creativity
- Highly analytical and numerate
- Ability to multi-task
- Communication and influence
- Wider horizon planning
- Strong media knowledge
- Well-organised self-starter
- Project management
- Wider experience of combined campaigning (especially in relation to public affairs)
- Knowledge of wider marketing disciplines (including social media)
- Degree educated and relevant professional training
