Senior Communications Executive in London

Role: Senior Communications Executive

Team: Communications

Location: London

Salary banding: £35,000 - £40,000

Experience: Some experience

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Coralie Frost, Head of External Communications & Social

This role in 3 words: Collaborative, Ownership, Creative

Top 3 qualities for this role: Strong communicator, Organised, Self-Starter

Closing Date: 15th August at 5pm

Where you’ll work: At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility. This role is London Hub based, providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO. At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That’s why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet: Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

• You will be working in the Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing team. From public affairs to advertising, sustainability to social media, we’re at the heart of the business telling OVO’s story to the public, media, government, and industry.

This role in a nutshell: In this role, you’ll be supporting the delivery of campaigns - across corporate and consumer - and leading on communication plans for announcements to enhance OVO’s reputation. This will include newsgathering, drafting materials, sourcing and managing case studies, creating content, liaison with stakeholders, pitching press and managing press queries, and briefing spokespeople.

Deputy to Head of External Communications & Social for press enquiries, crisis communications and media handling. You will build positive relationships with our Operations team to ensure the press office is best in class, supporting customers when they need us. You’ll be enthusiastic about pitching stories to key media and building relationships with journalists.

You’ll be working with key OVO functions, including our Commercial, Policy, Regulatory, People, Risk, Brand, Marketing and wider Corporate Affairs teams by supporting OVO’s communications strategy. You’ll be happy to support other areas in the wider External Affairs team, where required.

You’ll have responsibility for the day to day management of OVO’s media monitoring agency and subscription services. The role will provide daily media monitoring across national, trade and online press, circulating to senior stakeholders and the wider business. You’ll lead on managing OVO’s speaker engagement grid and award submissions. Drafting submissions and associated supporting content.

You’ll assist with preparation and help facilitate meetings with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring agendas and actions are noted and shared promptly to ensure we meet project deadlines. Finally, the role will help with the smooth running of the team, such as raising POs and tracking financial spend, and analysing the press office status to the wider business (e.g. monthly updates and forward planning risks).

This is a fantastic opportunity for a media savvy individual who is keen to step into a visible and high performing in-house role.

Your key outcomes will be:

• You’ll have 3+ years experience of working in-house or agency (energy background is not a requirement of the role).
• You’ll have excellent writing and verbal communication skills and feel confident raising new ideas.
• You’ll be able to keep team resources up to date, including media lists, content planners and key messaging documents.
• You’ll be comfortable working in a very fast paced environment. OVO is constantly evolving with an entrepreneurial approach to ‘find a better way’.
• You’ll be highly responsive and proactive in everything you do.
• You’ll be self-confident but also humble enough to critically appraise your own work.
• You’ll be willing to work out of hours where required to support the press office function as part of the team rota.

You’ll be a successful Senior Communications Executive here at OVO if you…

• Experience of working in a press office in-house/or at an agency.
• A hunger to work on exciting projects and feel confident taking the lead to come up with new ideas to drive the communications strategy.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you:

We’ll pay you between £35k and £40k, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us! We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission. You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We’ll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we’ve put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

• For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
• For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.
• For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more.
• For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations.
• For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers.
• For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It’s up to you.