Job Description

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Location
Birmingham, Leeds

Service line
Enabling Functions

Date published
27-Nov-2023

Req #
14564



Job description




Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, which covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It\xe2\x80\x99s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most. Connect to your opportunity Reporting to the Director of External Relations, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be responsible for developing and implementing media relations campaigns for our tech & digital PR pillar as well managing a PR manager and Assistant PR manager. You will lead media relations for designated business areas and industry groups and support the wider External Relations team on corporate campaigns and reactive issues. You\xe2\x80\x99ll do this in close collaboration with the firm\xe2\x80\x99s industry and business leaders, as well as colleagues across corporate affairs, marketing, social media, research and public affairs. With a keen interest in the news, business and political agenda, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have an eye for what makes a good story and excellent writing standards for press releases, comments, social media posts and opinion pieces. Additionally, you\xe2\x80\x99ll need to be able to lead, manage and deliver multiple projects to tight deadlines, and influence senior leaders and stakeholders within the business. Specific responsibilities \xe2\x80\x93

• Develop, manage and execute PR strategies for assigned areas, ensuring they are in line with the firm\xe2\x80\x99s priorities, objectives and wider corporate campaigns.
• Influence and support marketing and research activities, developing new ideas with the relevant teams to ensure newsworthy insights and coverage.
• Understand and identify business issues that Deloitte\xe2\x80\x99s spokespeople can discuss across national and trade media, including print, broadcast and social channels, and manage proactive and reactive media requests.
• Advise senior stakeholders on external communications best practice, and report regularly on key successes and ways to raise eminence.
• Lead on and oversee the drafting of press releases, media comments, social media posts and opinion pieces.
• Develop new and existing journalist relationships across key media publications.
• Manage and develop junior members of the team.

Connect to your skills and professional experience We\xe2\x80\x99re open to applications from a range of industries and sectors, but you\xe2\x80\x99ll need clear experience of working in communications/PR or media for a minimum of seven years as well as some experience of people management. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also need to be a great team player with a high level of personal autonomy, and have a hunger to learn, improve and do great work. Here are the professional skills and requirements you\xe2\x80\x99ll need to demonstrate: Essential \xe2\x80\x93

• Experience in public relations (gained either in-house or within an agency) or journalism.
• that will be tested during the interview process.
• , with an ability to build solid relationships, manage junior members of the team and gain credibility with stakeholders at multiple levels, including at Executive level.
• Evidence of leading on the development and implementation of strategic media relations plans.
• Strong attention to detail and a willingness to be proactive in order to get the job done. Interest in the news agenda and networking to build journalist contacts.

Desirable \xe2\x80\x93

• Be a creative thinker with high standards and someone who has excellent attention to detail.
• individual who is able to successfully manage multiple stakeholders and projects under time pressures, while supporting and developing junior team members.
• and a solid understanding of the business landscape for Deloitte and the wider economy, with a grasp of the role PR can play in supporting the firm\xe2\x80\x99s objectives.
• Confidence to stand firm and say no when needed, while remaining diplomatic and consensus-driven.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you\xe2\x80\x99ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us. Connect with your colleagues "The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career."

• Jim, Enabling Functions

Connect to your agile working options We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for the best person. Not someone who lives within in a certain mile radius of our office. We\xe2\x80\x99re open to applications from anyone based in the UK. Your home office will be the closest one to where you live, and you\xe2\x80\x99ll have the option to work from home or the office. There\xe2\x80\x99s likely to be some regular travel to our London or Birmingham hubs to meet and collaborate in person with the rest of the team, as well as meet senior stakeholders and journalists. Discover more about our locations. Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it\xe2\x80\x99s why we\xe2\x80\x99re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we\xe2\x80\x99re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we\xe2\x80\x99ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it\xe2\x80\x99s only when you\xe2\x80\x99re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for. Your expertise is our capability, so we\xe2\x80\x99ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it\xe2\x80\x99s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you\xe2\x80\x99ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you\xe2\x80\x99ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you\xe2\x80\x99ll learn how to lead. Connect to your next step A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you\xe2\x80\x99ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you\xe2\x80\x99ll never stop growing, whatever your level. Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers