press and pr manager

£35,000

per year

SODEXO LTD

24 days ago

SALFORD, MANCHESTER, M50 2UE, M50 2UE

Deadline: 16 April 2021

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OCCUPATION TITLE

Pre Press Manager

SOC CODE

5421

MINIMUM SALARY

£19,900

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An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate and creative Press and PR Manager to join our Communications team. In this role you will be managing the press office and will act as subject matter expert for media and PR communications across specific segments, providing guidance and advice across UK and Ireland.

This is a busy and varied external communications role and to be successful you will be comfortable working at a fast pace, handling complex and sensitive information, and balancing the needs of competing priorities. You will also be sufficiently confident in your communications skills to act as company spokesperson with media and provide support and consultancy to senior stakeholders.

You will be joining a fantastic, dedicated team and will have the opportunity to work across various business segments.



Job Description
Salford, Manchester 

Competitive plus benefits

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

Main Responsibilities
 
  • Handle both reactive media enquiries and proactive opportunities in order to protect and enhance corporate reputation, preparing written responses within tight deadlines
 
  • Act as media relations specialist for dedicated segments of the business
 
  • Manage comms relationship with public sector client
 
  • Identify opportunities to promote Sodexo initiatives, news and leadership positively in national, trade and regional media
 
  • Act as PR and media lead on projects and campaigns
 
  • Issues management preparation and activation
 
  • Operate as part of an integrated team giving consideration as to how campaigns and news will play out across all external channels including social media
 
  • Identify and develop strong relationships with national and trade journalists and industry counterparts
 
  • Provide out of hours crisis support and respond to out of hours media enquiries as required – a team rota is in place for this support
 
The Ideal Candidate
What’s essential:

  • Experience of managing or taking a key role in supporting a press office
  • Proven track record of providing media and PR advice and guidance to senior stakeholders and working within a large, complex business environment
  • Strong proactive and reactive media relations skills – including evidence of media relationships and a consistent track record of media coverage generation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Crisis and issues management skills, adept at handling sensitive situations
  • Ability to multi-task and to prioritise when working in fast-paced environment
Where we can be flexible:

  • Experience of working in a global business
  • Project or campaign planning skills
  • Experience of working in a PR agency environment
  • Experience working in an integrated environment
About The Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.



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