General Staff Jobs

PR Account Manager – Food & Hospitality

PR Account Manager – The Company
My Client is an independent PR & Social agency with over 30 years experience, specialising in restaurants, pubs, bars, hotels, food & drink & lifestyle. They love food, hospitality and going out! Their black book of media, digital and industry contacts is second to none. They love influencer campaigns and collaborations, and take pride in always delivering.

PR Account Manager – The Role
The Account Manager will be implementing communications strategies through a wide variety of channels including digital, building and managing relationships with clients and key contacts and creatively building on campaign plans at a tactical level.

Key Responsibilities

• Client management
• Press materials
• Sell in stories to target media
• Keeping clients up-to-date with key industry developments
• Manage content generation for consumer features and news
• Media relations, liaising with journalists

PR Account Manager – Required skills/interests

• MUST HAVE PR Agency Experience
• Track record of successfully managing PR process from start to finish response to client briefs.
• Social Media implementation experience
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to lead, and make difficult decisions / assertive when required

To apply for this fantastic opportunity or for further information, please contact: [email protected]

Up to 38K, DOE

Major Players are the UK’s leading digital, marketing, creative and tech talent agency. We offer equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

At Major Players, we are committed to improving diversity, equity and inclusion within the industries we service, creating impactful and meaningful change to our partners, candidates and employees. For further information visit: www.majorplayers.co.uk/diversity-equity-inclusion/.

Major Players | B Corp™

PR Account Manager, Macclesfield Up to £38,000

If you’re working agency-side and at a crossroads in your career, maybe looking for a step up, then this could be the perfect next role for you.

This well established PR & Communications Agency is looking for a PR Account Manager to join their growing team. Specialising in B2B marketing, they help their clients raise their brand profile across all channels; from social media to content strategy, to earned media and influencer marketing and so much more.

If you have some experience working in these areas; you’re a natural story-teller and enjoy take pride in helping brands engage with their target audiences, then we’d love to hear from you.

About you

You’ll ideally have 2-3 years’ experience as an Account Manager or Account Executive in an agency, with PR and experience of dealing with the press too. However, if you worked in B2B marketing inhouse, especially in Tech or Construction, then that would work too.

You’ll be enthusiastic and eager to learn and to deliver for your clients. You’ll be creative and be prepared to invest time in understanding their businesses, so that you can then create and deliver award-winning marketing plans and campaigns.

Why this is a great opportunity

Joining a growing business, there’s loads of scope for career progression, with the opportunity to learn from and grow with some of the best PR experts in the industry.

The agency leaders have created an inclusive and supportive culture where everyone is treated like an adult. Hybrid working, flexible hours and the opportunity to be promoted on merit are all part of the package.

The basic salary is competitive and coupled with a profit sharing bonus scheme and private healthcare plans, the financial benefits will make a difference to you too.

So what’s next

If you have B2B Marketing experience whether it be agency-side or inhouse, then we’d love to tell you more. Click apply now or contact Zeedee Gascoigne at The Talent Crowd for further information.

The Talent Crowd

Are you a communications professional with sustainability knowledge looking to develop a meaningful and impactful narrative?

Then please continue reading. Our client, a global financial services firm, has created an exciting Global Director of Communications role within an entirely new vertical dedicated to sustainability communications and corporate affairs. Reporting to the MD for Global Communications, you will be the right-hand person responsible for co-creating the development of the strategic narrative surrounding sustainable finance for the global business.

What you will receive

You will have the opportunity to join a future-centric organisation that has already established long-term sustainability ambitions. To meet these goals, all stakeholders, customers and colleagues need to be informed and illuminated on both business decisions and strategy. You will play an integral role in ensuring effective internal and external communications are clearly conveyed to a diverse selection of stakeholders.

Whilst in position, you will be able to enhance your knowledge in key areas such as carbon markets, biodiversity, adaptation finance and blended finance, which are all key to ensuring a just transition of our financial systems.

What you will do

With a group-level mandate in the Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing function, you will:

• Work alongside the MD to co-lead the development of the firm’s strategic narrative for sustainability.
• Identify opportunities and challenges for the firm to strengthen its reputation and build its brand, whilst also developing your personal brand.
• Be a trusted advisor to senior leaders from across the business, from the Chief Sustainability Office to Group Compliance and Investor Relations.
• Oversee the content development for the firm’s sustainability report and ESG disclosures.

What you can bring to the business

• Extensive knowledge and experience in corporate affairs, communications and sustainability.
• Financial services or industry experience from a carbon-intensive sector.
• A proven track record in influencing and advising senior business stakeholders.
• Global exposure strategy experience and exposure, ideally in emerging markets

Sparked your interest?

Then please apply directly or reach out to Lewis Dickinson at [email protected] for a confidential discussion about what your next step could look like.

Acre

External Communications Manager

£55,000

I am currently recruiting for an experienced External Communications Manager position with a leading national hospitality brand within their based Head office with a mix of home / remote working. Sitting within the senior management team, this role has a big part to play in delivering all external communications including those to all venues & head office via various communication channels.

Typical responsibilities of the role will include:

• Responsibility for the Press Office which carries risk, media and reputation management, as well as internal and external stakeholder management.
• Planning the external communication activity schedule
• Support the wider business to build the external company brand, customer engagement and overall reputation management.
• Managing the crisis communications plan, regularly reviewing, and updating aligning with any new risk processes
• Creating and delivering a comprehensive corporate social media content strategy covering all media channels including LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
• Responsible for creating & monitoring all the social media content including written, photography, infographics and video
• Convert the strategy and plans into understandable and inclusive communications to the wider team
• Heading up the Corporate Social Responsibility campaigns and building string partnerships
• Liaise with the divisional PR communications managers to ensure the promotion of relevant content through social media where appropriate.
• Main point of reference for all communications feedback
• Providing communication insight to the wider management teams

Key requirements for the role.

• Previous experience in working with media, managing PR and communications is essential.
• A keen interest in current affairs and the media with the ability to deal with journalists
• Strong press office experience
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to adapt quickly and effectively within the fast-paced hospitality market to manage the press office and brand reputational issues
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels
• Strong Leaderships skills

If you are interested in working for one of the most trusted & expanding Hospitality business’ in the UK with excellent benefits, then please Apply!

Rise Resourcing

Job Overview

We are looking for a Media Measurement and Attribution Manager to join our fast-growing influencer marketing agency team, to measure and evaluate the success of our marketing and media campaigns on performance-based marketing campaigns for our cornucopia of brand clients. Through hands-on campaign data analysis, this position will help define, measure and optimize ongoing marketing campaign performance and strategy development.   The ideal candidate has intimate technical knowledge of major online marketing attribution systems and how to create and troubleshoot campaigns working across a multitude of systems.

This role will work to implement measurement solutions to understand the success of media in market and its incremental effect on the campaigns we are managing. The successful candidate will have experience in understanding marketing measurement needs and work with data partners to facilitate the best possible measurement solutions across devices, campaigns, and platforms. 

Responsibilities for a Media Measurement and Attribution Manager

• Work with internal technology teams and 3rd party vendors to build the best possible measurement solutions
• Build measurement frameworks across program, channel and campaign attribution
• Conduct in-depth evaluation of marketing programs to help derive insights and recommendations for future initiatives in a clear and easily digestible manner
• Report out on full funnel measurement and attribution
• Create baselines to help understand media effectiveness
• Work with the media agency to implement ongoing optimizations.
• Design and build visual tools to convert complex data into visually digestible information to empower our broader creator engagement team and brand management team

Qualifications for a Media Measurement and Attribution Manager

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline. Masters level degree well regarded
• 5-7 years’ experience in advertising effectiveness with a focus on measurement and attribution
• Intimate and in depth experience with Impact Radius and HasOffers/Tune Platforms
• Experience working with digital media and 1st party data
• Experience working with Google ADH, Big Query and Google Analytics environments
• Strong knowledge of attribution and control/exposed methodologies
• Exceptionally strong analytical skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Proficiency in query languages such as SQL, data mining tools a plus.
• Experience working with digital/social advertising environments
• Experience with AB and multivariate testing
• Deep understanding of organizing data across multiple data platforms
• Solid project management and organizations skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced marketing environment

InfluenceLogic

Live Fully at Marriott International – #1 Leader in Hospitality

At Marriott International, you have the opportunity to grow in your career, work with teammates that feel like family, and help make our world a better place.

The Marriott International HQ, located at 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, , 20814 is currently hiring a Senior Program Manager, Internal Communications.

Responsibilities include:

The Senior Program Manager, HR Communications is a member of the HR Communications + Change Management Team at Marriott International, responsible for leading the design and execution of effective communication strategies for priority HR initiatives. This communications expert brings a deep understanding and creative approach to internal communications, leveraging traditional channels, digital tools, industry best practices, visual storytelling, and analytics and insights to engage our diverse communities of leaders and associates around the world. This position is located in Bethesda, Maryland and will work with the Vice President of HR Communications to support change management and communications strategies that drive awareness, educate and inspire associates at our hotels around the world.

This is a Hybrid role (2–3 days a week in office) at our Bethesda, MD HQ.

CORE WORK PRIORITIES:

• HR Initiative Communications + Change Management: Design and execute communications strategies for a diverse set of key HR initiatives and other priorities as assigned, including but not limited to: benefits, workforce technology (mHUB), talent acquisition, learning and development, talent management tools, and more. This includes strategy development and tactical plan execution, stakeholder engagement and creative production (e.g., print and digital assets, visual presentations, copywriting), development of messaging and communications for diverse channels, intranet design, webinar execution, leadership reviews and more. Partners closely with the learning organization to co-create educational plans when appropriate.
• HR Comms Channel Management: Lead editor and content contributor/curator for our global HR communication channels including newsletters, digital sites, intranet and more. Craft communications + supporting resources to to drive usage, leverage data and analytics and insights to define the future, contribute to tools of the future.
• Project Management: Work with HR stakeholders (COEs, change management, learning) to navigate multiple projects simultaneously, managing complex content, crafting thoughtful, clear + concise messaging, effectively managing tight deadlines and deliverable reviews, and more.
• Client Relationship Management: Builds and maintains client-focused partnerships that strengthen relationships with key stakeholders including HR COEs, continent teams and other business leaders. Maintain a flexible work style that encourages cross-functional collaboration and coordination. She/He must be adept at influencing others, tapping diverse sources of information, leaning in and identifying opportunities, anticipating challenges and finding solutions, and devising and executing integrated and impactful communications + engagement strategies to deliver against current and future team priorities.
• Team Engagement: Contributes to an engaging and rewarding work environment for a team of communications + change management professionals that hold themselves to a high standard, operate in a team-first environment, embrace ambiguity and the need to be flexible, take on new challenges and growth opportunities, deliver a high-caliber product, exceed the needs of internal clients, succeed in a fast-paced environment, and feel rewarded for high performance.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

• 4-year degree from an accredited university in Communications, Business Administration, Marketing or related major required.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in communications, change management, marketing, or related function, demonstrating progressive career growth and pattern of exceptional performance.
• Strong writer with a proven track record consulting to business leaders and designing, developing, and implementing high impact communications in large organizations, using a variety of delivery methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple high-profile projects including crisis comms (at times) in a global landscape.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ATTRIBUTES

• Expert written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to develop “client-ready” material and communicate effectively to a broad range of stakeholders (including senior leaders and hotel associates)
• Strong service orientation, consulting skills, and ability to interface with business leaders
• Strong change management, program and project management skills
• Editorial experience, strong proof-reading, subbing, and editing skills
• Experience in managing and developing content for print and online channels
• Experience in managing agencies and budgets
• Ability to influence
• Ability to present work quickly and accurately to a high standard
• Flexible and willing to work unsociable hours with little or no notice
• Able to multi-task, self-motivated and able to self-manage projects
• Collaborates and works well in a creative, team-based approach to accomplishing work
• Active learner and listener – able to enhance personal, professional, and business growth through new knowledge and experiences
• Flexible: comfortable with complexity, ambiguity, and change
• Highly organized and able to handle multiple priorities at any given point in time
• Trustworthy with strong business integrity and ability to hold sensitive information in confidence
• Persistent; drives ideas; engages in fixing the problem; team player
• Always brings a professional demeanor; polished and articulate in diverse settings
• Analytical; makes decisions using data
• Results driven

Marriott International is consistently recognized as an employer of choice globally by FORTUNE magazine, DiversityInc and Great Places to Work Institute, among others.

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Visit www.marriott.com/careers to learn more about our workplace culture and career opportunities.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law. Marriott International considers for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Marriott International

Salary: £66,705 – £73,441 per annum

Location: Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Manchester

Contract: fixed term for 2 years

Hours: Full time / Part time / Flexible

This is an exciting opportunity for an internal communications and engagement technology specialist to play a pivotal role using engaging and cutting-edge technology to deliver the internal communications and engagement strategy of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Working with the Director of Organisational Development and colleagues in the wider People, Capability and Culture team, you will be responsible for maximising the use of technology to drive improved engagement and communications with CMA colleagues, building capability and supporting our broader digital transformation, to ensure the CMA continues to be a centre of excellence.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development, design and implementation of our strategy for technology to internally communicate and engage with colleagues effectively

• Engaging with external networks, technology and communications groups to ensure the CMA is at the cutting edge of using technology to improve its organisational development practise

• Coaching the Internal Communications and Engagement team and ensuring their personal development, career development and continued high performance

• Influencing our senior leaders and managers about how best they can communicate with and engage with the people they lead

You will need substantial experience of implementing internal communications and engagement technology solutions as part of an internal communications and engagement strategy, with experience of using technology and media to engage and communicate with diverse internal audiences and stakeholders.

You will also need significant experience of delivering a range of complex programmes and projects, as well as experience of leading others and using technology to drive change and improve processes.

In return the CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme and flexible working options.

To find out more and to apply, please click on the APPLY button.

Closing date for applications: 11:55 pm on Monday 3rd April 2023.

The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.

Competition and Markets Authority

Internal Communications Manager – Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: Ministry of Defence

Location: Remote – travel to Andover as and when required

The Internal Communications Community Manager is a key role within the Army’s International, Communications and Engagement Branch. Based within Army Headquarters, our role within Internal communications is to provide advice, consultancy and outputs to key stakeholders within the British Army.

The role of the communications manager is to influence, engage and understand our internal audience. You will be expected to lead with training, produce guidance and best practices to users on Defence Connect (DC) to ensure they fully exploit the DC Capability.

Main responsibilities:

• You will produce training packages and plans for both in person and online training, through one-to-one engagements and be responsible for the development of online information for self-study.
• The Community Manager will coordinate, publish and follow up on all internal communication content on DC and DefNet when required. You will encourage and manage them to engage with town hall’s and ask me anything sessions, ensuring these are responded to and encourage internal users to utilise these tools.
• You will support the Defence Connect technical support contractor as required and provide assistance in developing membership, usage and engagement reports for our internal channels.
• You will have the IT knowledge and know how to adapt and make suggestions to the development of Defence Connect.
• You will also be responsible in providing regular reports on usage, memberships and engagement across internal communications. You will be the SME across this area and will have daily involvement in the review and management of new MOD and other users on to DC.
• You will monitor the internal community, encourage members, facilitate discussions and manage “inappropriate Use”/ Modernation policy and procedures. You will monitor group usage and consolidate/retire groups when applicable.

Essential:

• Previous demonstratable experience of communications management, ideally with Enterprise Social Media platforms.
• Previous demonstratable experience of managing JIVE software or other similar Enterprise Social Media Software.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable:

· An active SC Clearance.

· Public Sector / Defence experience.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or email [email protected]

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Public Sector Resourcing

Put your passion and skills to work for the planet. Climate change is the most urgent issue of our time, and we need people like you to help us build a vital Earth — for everyone.

We’re Environmental Defense Fund, a fast-paced nonprofit with a growing staff of more than 1,000 people in nearly 30 countries. We deliver game-changing solutions that cut climate pollution and strengthen people’s ability to thrive despite the effects climate change is already having. We work wherever we can have the most impact, from local communities to top companies to governments worldwide, and even in space.

Our culture, values and commitment to diversity make EDF an exciting and meaningful place to work. Every job here makes a difference. Won’t you join us?

Overall Function

The Communications Director, Hydrogen, is responsible for spearheading the development and implementation of a global communications strategy that can achieve the goals of the hydrogen initiative and establish our issue experts as thought leaders. The Director oversees all functions of communications for the hydrogen work, including earned, social and paid media; digital content on edf.org and blogs; thought-leadership activities; and message/story development.

This position requires an understanding of and keen interest in the energy and climate space and its key players, and an ability to manage multiple projects at once across distributed teams that are working on this EDF initiative in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.

The ideal candidate is a strategic and creative thinker with a proven ability to use data and narrative storytelling to focus target audiences’ attention on nuanced messages and to develop and execute on communications strategies that influence decision-makers, motivate action and produce results. They distill complex policy, science and economic issues into simple, accurate and compelling narratives that advance our thought leadership.

The Director works closely with our hydrogen experts and policy teams, and the communicators supporting Energy Transition work across global regions. They will manage an outside consultancy hired to operate communications campaigns in markets relevant for progressing our work in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, and manage at least one team member. The Director reports to the Associate Vice President for Energy Transition Communications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise senior leaders on the most effective global communications strategies and tactics – both in real-time and in long-range planning discussions – to ensure message coherence and discipline and communication is maximized as an advocacy tool in achieving goals.
• Develop, implement and oversee communications strategies and tactics to advance goals, including media outreach, messaging, talking points, events, social media, digital communications and collateral development.
• Build and refine core narrative and messaging on the challenges and appropriate opportunities for deployment and use of hydrogen as part of a clean energy transition.
• Direct development of the global hydrogen media strategy to build EDF’s authority and market acceptance of our science on hydrogen’s climate impacts with stakeholders, media and influencers in key geographies.
• Develop a PR plan with KPIs, manage and monitor performance of PR team/contractors including RFPs, adhering to timelines, budgets, and approvals, and ensuring delivery of on-brand, on-message publicity and quality results; ideate and manage a content pipeline that feeds thought leadership work.
• Work closely with EDF experts to stay abreast of changes in objectives, strategies and communications needs; closely coordinate with other communications colleagues across EDF to ensure alignment and cross-pollination of ideas, strategies and messaging.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with targeted journalists.
• Plan and execute events such as press conferences and in-person meetings with journalists and other influential stakeholders.
• Oversee all social media elements including support for experts’ social accounts and coordination with EDF’s Digital Marketing Team across brand, region and energy accounts.
• Create, edit and proof written, digital and/or video materials under intense deadline pressure.
• Prepare staff with training and advice for communications opportunities.
• Manage and mentor more junior staff as appropriate.
• Participate in advancing EDF’s goals for diversity, equity and inclusion in which people from all backgrounds and experiences feel connected, included, and empowered to address the environmental and organizational challenges in alignment with EDF values.
• Prepare summaries and analyses of media coverage on a quarterly basis.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years’ marketing/communications/media experience, preferably involving the intersection of science and technology with policy/public affairs and issue advocacy.
• Media experience on energy and environment required.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree in a related field is preferred.
• Proven ability to use communications as a tool to achieve policy goals.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Excellent collaborator with an inclusive approach to how they work and create content.
• Strong leadership, team management and mentoring skills.
• Superb communications strategy, writing, and editing skills.
• Experience pitching and developing strong relationships with top tier media, and track record of producing national media coverage; familiarity with environmental media is a plus.
• Experience providing creative communications support and strategy to multiple internal project teams simultaneously.
• Experience building a public platform for leaders within an organization.
• Experience hiring and managing communications consultants and internal staff.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Budgeting and strategic planning skills.
• Demonstrates self-awareness, cultural competency and inclusivity, and ability to work with colleagues and stakeholders across diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Commitment to the mission of Environmental Defense Fund.

Hiring Range

We offer a strong total rewards package encompassing competitive salary, robust benefits, and professional development opportunities consistent with a modern global organization.

The pay range for this role is 115,000 – 130,000 USD which takes into account factors such as candidate experience, skills, training, internal team equity and local norms.

Environmental Defense Fund is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant’s qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Environmental Defense Fund

Salary: £66,705 – £73,441 per annum

Location: Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Manchester

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time / Part time / Flexible

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in the development of the internal communications and engagement strategy of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) establishing and implementing content delivery that meets the needs of our diverse staff.

Working with the Director of Organisational Development and colleagues in the wider People, Capability and Culture team, you will ensure our staff are equipped with the right information and content, maximising a range of tools to empower and inform colleagues, bring our values to life and ensure the CMA continues to be a centre of excellence.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development, design and implementation of our strategy for content to internally communicate and engage effectively with colleagues

• Engaging with external networks and communications groups to ensure the CMA is at the cutting edge of organisational development

• Actively leading the Internal Communications and Engagement team, ensuring their personal development, career development and continued high performance

• Influencing our senior leaders and managers about how best they can communicate with and engage the people they lead

• Ensuring that analysis of communication and engagement needs is a recurring feature of the internal communications and engagement strategy

You will need substantial experience of leading and delivering an organisational internal communications and engagement strategy, with experience of developing content and using technology and media to engage and communicate with diverse audiences.

Significant experience of delivering a range of complex programmes and projects and using technology to drive change and improve processes is equally important.

In return the CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme and flexible working options.

To find out more and to apply, please click on the APPLY button.

Closing date for applications: 11:55 pm on Monday 3rd April 2023.

The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.

Competition and Markets Authority