PR Manager

Davies global expansion has opened an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated, and savvy PR manager to join our quickly growing marketing & communications function to help maintain and increase Davies’ strong profile across insurance and other highly regulated markets.

Delivering specialist professional services and technology solutions, Davies works in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses. You’ll help shape and oversee Davies’ media strategy and accelerate our growth targeting leading global insurers and other regulated markets through engaging storytelling and publicity.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Help shape and oversee the delivery of Davies media strategy
• Bring and build excellent relationships with the media
• Work with colleagues across the business to find and develop agenda-setting stories
• Be the first port of call for journalists and other organisations we work to influence, responding quickly, confidently, and sensitively to negative or critical news stories, and to positive requests
• Uncover, present, and deliver creative ways to get our issues & expertise into the news
• Proactively drive and generate positive news coverage in industry trade publications, local news outlets and national media
• Write press releases and other media materials to ensure messaging is clear and aligned with the business
• Manage daily media monitoring, and associated services, and help produce communications analyses to demonstrate media impact
• Work collaboratively/strategically with global marketing and internal communications colleagues across the locations Davies operates from

About you

• Excellent judgement and ability to work at pace and under pressure
• Exceptional understanding of the media landscape and how print and broadcast media operate
• You have worked in a busy press function with a track record of influencing and persuading senior leaders
• You will have an in-depth understanding of what makes engaging content and an eye for a story

Desirable

• You have excellent contacts across the media mix, come from an insurance background with the technical knowledge to confidently advise on how to approach complex market challenges in the media

Diversity & Inclusion

Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, we welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality and belief (or lack thereof).

Rewards and Recognition

Innovation: We embrace innovation and run an annual competition available for all colleagues to submit their ideas. 2021’s top 10 finalists will travel to Nashville in Tennessee, USA where they will pitch their ideas to our investors, HGGC. The winner will receive funding to bring their idea to life, as well as rewards for the runners up, some of our colleagues have moved across into brand new positions to further develop their ideas/projects!

Recognition: Kudos recognition is a tool to help you recognise and reward colleagues across the business to say thank you for a job done well, going above and beyond their role, getting involved in CSR and other business initiatives. Rewards are sent to the top 200 people on the leader board at the end of each calendar month.

Other benefits include:

• Leadership, training & support for professional qualifications
• Development programmes & institute memberships
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Virtual GP and other wellbeing resources and regular company initiatives
• Access to Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loan
• Company Pension and Life Assurance

CSR

CSR is important to us here at Davies. The Davies Foundation is our registered charity, through which we do good and give back to the local communities where our people live & work. Our people fundraise by taking part in all types of events and activities, and Davies matches pound for pound the fundraising efforts of our people raising money for our charity.

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