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Communications Manager - Media and Reputation

• 00098761

Job title: Communications Manager, Media and Reputation

Location: Options include Glascoed, Portsmouth, Washington, Barrow, Scotstoun, Filton, or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £60,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Planning and delivering Sector-wide external content to enhance and protect reputation, including through proactive campaigns

• Proactively building and maintaining relationships with regional and trade media contacts and partners to proactively grow our regional profile

• Collaborating with colleagues to deliver a robust programme of external communications, representing our business activities and strategic themes such as sustainability, technology and digital solutions

• Collaborating with our channel managers to ensure targeted placement of content to key external audiences through media and social media channels

• Leading our agency model to provide surge resource and content delivery capability into our lines of business, including in issues handling, acting as primary press office for the Sector

• Line management responsibilities for two Communications Advisors

Your skills and experiences:

• An experienced communicator with the skill to turn complex subjects into accessible and engaging content, with expert knowledge communications principles, techniques and skills, in particular stakeholder management and media handling skills

• Depth of knowledge of the UK media landscape and experience generating positive media coverage, with the ability to understand the Markets in which BAE system and its competitors operates

• Ability to translate Business Strategy into action for people agendas, creating winning solutions and output for the business

• History of making evaluative judgments of both factual and qualitative information drawn from a variety of sources

• Demonstrable customer focus, the ability to build effective relationships through collaboration and experience of people management or leading small team

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Maritime & Land Communications team:

Employing in excess of 24,000 highly skilled colleagues across its Submarines, Naval Ships, Maritime Services, Munitions and Australia businesses the Maritime and Land Sector is growing; and in order to best position itself to meet future challenges its Communications function is evolving to enhance and realign the delivery of integrated and proactive communications.

As a result, we have created a new Media and Reputation team to support the external communications agenda, including thought leadership, editorial and media relations activity. This team will enhance our reputation through the development and delivery of our reputation strategy; showcasing our people and the solutions, systems and products they deliver.

Working in a brilliant team of enthusiastic communications professionals, colleagues joining us will have an exciting opportunity to enhance the way we tell our unique story.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

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