SENIOR REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Hybrid working based in Birmingham office. Can also be based in Manchester or Nottingham
This award winning and progressive professional services firm has a brand new and exciting opportunity for a Senior Regional Communications Manager, to join their busy and thriving Marketing and Front of House teams.
Reporting into the Communications Director, this role sits within the Corporate Communications team, covering investor communications, public and media relations, internal communications, social media, design and responsible business activity. The role will develop and manage the PR, media relations and press office activity across the firm's key regional offices and provide consultancy to key regional office heads and fee earners across the firm's network of offices.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Working closely with the regional office heads to develop regional PR campaigns that link to the news agenda and that are tailored to the relevant local market issues within the cities those offices are based.
- Setting the media relations strategy and plan and leading the press office work across the regional office network in addition to managing commercial opportunities with local media partners that align with our objectives.
- Managing reactive media requests and working with the Communications Director on any reputational issues relating to the offices.
- Ensure close alignment of the regional PR profile and results with internal communications, working closely with the Senior Internal Communications Manager to ensure regional media results and campaigns are promoted internally across the Group.
- Proactively seeking out news agenda driven opportunities, responding to planned media forward features and commentary opportunities and tapping into Response Source opportunities linked to the target print and online media on a regional basis.
- PR, media relations and press office work will specifically include developing and managing written content and commentary by creating press releases, articles, thought leadership pieces and white papers.
- In addition ddveloping engaging social media content to sit alongside the media relations work being undertaken and build up relevant regional key journalist and external stakeholder relationships via existing social media channels.
- Develop a close network of journalist contacts within target media for the regional offices and build relationships with relevant editors and reporters both virtually and face to face
- Use robust measurement and evaluation techniques to demonstrate ROI for the PR and media relations activity being generated for the regional offices and keep Coverage Book software updated with the regional coverage.
Person Profile
- 10 years + experience in external communications and having held a senior management position within the communications industry either working in a PR agency environment or within a corporate in-house communications role.
- The ability to build strong, proactive relationships with fee earners across the entire Group and positive working relationships with the wider Marketing team.
- Excellent grasp of grammar, punctuation and the English language and will possess superb attention to detail skills.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines, think on feet and an ability to be proactive and take the initiative are all absolutely essential.
Rewards & Benefits
- Competitive basic salary and attractive benefits package
- Up to 10% discretionary bonus
- Matched Pension Contribution up to 5%
- Family Health Cover
- Life Assurance (3x Salary)
- £5000 Core Critical Illness Cover
- 26 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- Holiday Buy Back - up to 5 days
- Social Club
- Travel Pass Scheme
- Lots more!
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