Head of PR and Communications

12 Month MAT Cover

February 2025 Start

Hybrid - 2 days London Based

Do you have Global PR experience ? Are you looking for a new role where you can add value? Do you enjoy working with Senior Stakeholders in the business? If yes please read on.

My client are a global commodity organisation who are looking for a Head of PR to join their dynamic team.

The role:

Reporting to the CEO and working as part of the marketing leadership team, this role will manage all global media relations, employee engagement, brand strategy and implementation.

• This role will help lead the strategic development and direction to increase brand awareness and reputation across key markets globally.
• This means the role will be part of a team creating an integrated experience, collaborating with product, sales, and strategy to deliver a strong and coherent brand strategy and narrative to our people and our customers.
• The role also leads the development and delivery of the organisations' global media strategy and corporate narrative and supports the delivery of regional media engagement across EMEA, Americas and APAC.
• Results will be geared towards building positive media coverage of the company's market expertise and capabilities across tier one and trade media, including broadcast, radio and increasingly podcasts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, deliver and govern the brand narrative and ensure brand 'stickiness' both internally and externally
• Manage budgets with ability to make sound business decisions to invest and use budget appropriately
• Manage and develop solid media relations with key journalists, whilst managing PR agencies
• Ability to effectively influence internal stakeholders to understand global brand and its approach to teamwork and collaboration to generate media coverage
• Confidently identify media hooks and/or explore media stories working with market experts to brainstorm and develop media pitches

Skills Required:

• 10+ years experience working in media relations, external communications or corporate communications.
• Experience developing brand strategies and corporate narratives.
• Can effectively work with various stakeholders to develop media pitches and formulate a calendar of activity anticipating media hooks.
• Demonstrate management skills and ability to work closely with colleagues, vendors and PR agencies.

Love Success is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.