Assistant PR Manager, External Relations

Assistant PR Manager, External Relations Birmingham, England

Deloitte
Full Time Birmingham, England 33172 - 48545 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Basic information
Location
Birmingham
Service line
Enabling Functions
Date published
21-Jun-2023
Req #
13154
Job description

Connect to your Industry

This is an excellent opportunity for an aspiring public relations (PR) professional to join Deloitte’s busy press office and have a key role in promoting and protecting the firm’s reputation. It’s a chance to work on fast-moving areas such as the firm’s talent and people agenda, consulting, economics, tax or audit. The individual will get to showcase their results-driven and proactive PR strategies, outstanding writing skills, strong journalist connections and establish themselves as a trusted PR advisor to the business.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that 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’s 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 a PR Manager, you’ll be responsible for developing and implementing annual media relations campaigns for your areas of responsibility. You’ll do this in close collaboration with the firm’s industry and business leaders, as well as colleagues across marketing, social media, research and public affairs. With a thorough understanding of the news and business agenda, you’ll have a keen eye for what makes a good story, excellent writing standards and attention to detail for press releases, comments, blogs, social media posts and opinion pieces. Additionally, you’ll need to be able to manage and deliver multiple projects to tight deadlines and influence senior leaders and stakeholders within the business.

Specific responsibilities

  • Develop PR strategies for assigned areas, ensuring they are in line with the firm’s 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 issues that Deloitte spokespeople can discuss across national and trade media, including print, broadcast, and social channels.
  • Draft press releases, reactive and proactive comments, and opinion pieces
  • Help identify and create social media campaigns on your areas of responsibility
  • Identify, interview, and write up case studies of Deloitte’s people to share for internal and external use.
  • Build recognition of Deloitte partners as expert commentators on relevant business issues
  • Develop new and existing journalist relationships across key media publications
  • Manage weekly news summaries and quarterly reports on PR coverage and activity for your areas.
  • Work effectively in a diverse team within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

Connect to your skills and professional experience

  • Experience of public relations experience, gained either in-house or within an agency.
  • Evidence of developing and implementing strategic media relations plans.
  • Excellent writing skills and attention to detail, that will be tested during the interview process.
  • Highly organised and able to successfully manage multiple stakeholders and projects under time pressures.
  • Be a creative thinker with high standards and someone who has excellent attention to detail.
  • Commercial awareness and a solid understanding of the business landscape for Deloitte and the wider economy, with a grasp of the role External Relations can play in supporting business objectives.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to build solid relationships and gain credibility with stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Confidence to stand firm and say no when needed, while remaining diplomatic and consensus driven.
  • Motivated and equally able to work as part of a team and autonomously.

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’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect with your colleagues

"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating.”

"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

Location: The home office of this role is based within the Regions, excluding London.

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re 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’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re 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’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll 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’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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Assistant PR Manager, External Relations
Deloitte

http://www.deloitte.com
New York, United States
Joe Ucuzoglu
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Accounting & Tax
Finance
1850
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