Head of Communications

As Head of Communications, you will lead strategic communications at Benoy to enhance brand awareness and reputation across key audiences: our people, clients, industry influencers, and future talent. This is a 1 year fixed-term role which is pivotal in defining and delivering a communications strategy that aligns with our brand values, vision, and purpose. You will manage all aspects of external and internal communications, media relations, and public affairs, while acting as a trusted adviser to the senior leadership team. 

Key Responsibilities

Media

• Manage a PR agency team to drive media relations across the business.
• Manage and identify opportunities for our key spokespeople through press, events, and media—ensuring appropriate messaging is shared with them in advance.
• Identify PR opportunities and lead major media campaigns integrated with the wider marketing communications strategy, ensuring multi-media application.
• Work productively with internal stakeholders, clients, and partners to support media outreach and campaign activity.
• Nurture and influence relationships with prominent and relevant media contacts globally.
• Lead the creative approach to media engagement, adopting a tone and personality that reflect Benoy’s brand identity. 

Communications

• Develop and deliver a global marketing and communications strategy (internal and external) for Benoy.
• Work with Senior Leadership to shape and develop authoritative, clear points of view on industry-wide and subject-relevant topics.
• Take ownership of corporate communications including credentials, key messaging, and external positioning materials.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in the communications and marketing landscape, identifying areas of relevance and opportunity.
• Advise senior management on leadership communications and messaging to the global team.
• Provide strategic advice and data-driven insights to the Board, including regular reporting on Communications team activity and outcomes.
• Determine and manage the annual marketing and communications budget.
• Lead Benoy’s public affairs strategy, working to advance the company’s interests with UK and international decision-making bodies including Parliament, the EU, local government, regulators, and public institutions.
• Collaborate closely with the Business Development and Bidding Teams to support commercial objectives with compelling communications tools, messaging, and presentations.

Internal Communications

• Oversee all internal communications activity, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with the company’s strategic objectives.
• Ensure a regular and transparent flow of information between leadership and wider teams using effective communication channels.
• Implement and manage internal communication processes, establishing clear protocols and measurement frameworks to gauge impact and engagement.
• Align internal communications closely with external messaging to ensure a consistent brand story and voice across all audiences.

Skills and Experience Required

• Significant experience of leading strategic external and internal communications.
• Outstanding copy writing skills, attention to detail and an ability to deliver and edit high-quality and targeted content
• Understanding of design and audience targeting for different audiences, conveying messages effectively across a range of communications channels
• Excellent verbal and written communications and confidence to approach 
• Experience of managing small and matrix led (PR agency) teams
• Ability to plan communications activity, prioritising projects in terms of strategic importance and available resources against communication budgets
• Effective manager, confident leader and outstanding team player, able to work independently to drive results to deadline 
• Manager/ Senior Manager with 10+ years communications experience within an agency, financial services or professional services regulated B2B / B2B2C environment.
• Considerable experience in PR, leading on major media and external communication campaigns underpinned by strategic objectives and resulting in high-profile, targeted coverage

What We Can Offer You:

• Competitive salary
• Agile working with the option of three days in the studio and two working from home
• A fun, inclusive and collaborative studio environment with an active calendar of social activities
• 23 days annual leave with the option to buy more
• A range of benefits, including private medical/life insurance and pension
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