As Head of Communications, you will lead strategic communications at Benoy to enhance brand awareness and reputation across key audiences: our people, clients, industry influencers, and future talent. This is a 1 year fixed-term role which is pivotal in defining and delivering a communications strategy that aligns with our brand values, vision, and purpose. You will manage all aspects of external and internal communications, media relations, and public affairs, while acting as a trusted adviser to the senior leadership team.
Key Responsibilities
Media
1. Manage a PR agency team to drive media relations across the business.
2. Manage and identify opportunities for our key spokespeople through press, events, and media—ensuring appropriate messaging is shared with them in advance.
3. Identify PR opportunities and lead major media campaigns integrated with the wider marketing communications strategy, ensuring multi-media application.
4. Work productively with internal stakeholders, clients, and partners to support media outreach and campaign activity.
5. Nurture and influence relationships with prominent and relevant media contacts globally.
6. Lead the creative approach to media engagement, adopting a tone and personality that reflect Benoy’s brand identity.
Communications
7. Develop and deliver a global marketing and communications strategy (internal and external) for Benoy.
8. Work with Senior Leadership to shape and develop authoritative, clear points of view on industry-wide and subject-relevant topics.
9. Take ownership of corporate communications including credentials, key messaging, and external positioning materials.
10. Stay abreast of emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in the communications and marketing landscape, identifying areas of relevance and opportunity.
11. Advise senior management on leadership communications and messaging to the global team.
12. Provide strategic advice and data-driven insights to the Board, including regular reporting on Communications team activity and outcomes.
13. Determine and manage the annual marketing and communications budget.
14. Lead Benoy’s public affairs strategy, working to advance the company’s interests with UK and international decision-making bodies including Parliament, the EU, local government, regulators, and public institutions.
15. Collaborate closely with the Business Development and Bidding Teams to support commercial objectives with compelling communications tools, messaging, and presentations.
Internal Communications
16. Oversee all internal communications activity, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with the company’s strategic objectives.
17. Ensure a regular and transparent flow of information between leadership and wider teams using effective communication channels.
18. Implement and manage internal communication processes, establishing clear protocols and measurement frameworks to gauge impact and engagement.
19. Align internal communications closely with external messaging to ensure a consistent brand story and voice across all audiences.
Skills and Experience Required
20. Significant experience of leading strategic external and internal communications.
21. Outstanding copy writing skills, attention to detail and an ability to deliver and edit high-quality and targeted content
22. Understanding of design and audience targeting for different audiences, conveying messages effectively across a range of communications channels
23. Excellent verbal and written communications and confidence to approach
24. Experience of managing small and matrix led (PR agency) teams
25. Ability to plan communications activity, prioritising projects in terms of strategic importance and available resources against communication budgets
26. Effective manager, confident leader and outstanding team player, able to work independently to drive results to deadline
27. Manager/ Senior Manager with 10+ years communications experience within an agency, financial services or professional services regulated B2B / B2B2C environment.
28. Considerable experience in PR, leading on major media and external communication campaigns underpinned by strategic objectives and resulting in high-profile, targeted coverage
What we can offer you:
29. Competitive salary
30. Agile working with the option of three days in the studio and two working from home
31. A fun, inclusive and collaborative studio environment with an active calendar of social activities
32. 23 days annual leave with the option to buy more
33. A range of benefits, including private medical/life insurance and pension
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