Corporate Communication Specialist

The Corporate Communications Specialist is responsible for developing, implementing and measuring communication plans and messages .This is a hands-on role that requires creative thinking and an ability to turn business and technical concepts into meaningful coverage read by IT, business decision makers and C-level executives. Agency management experience is required.

• Develop and execute a quarterly PR strategy and plan (global and regional) for building awareness and positioning for our company's brands
• This plan should be in-line with the business goals and raise awareness and preference through editorial coverage, blogs, by-lines, awards, customer case studies and other relevant types of content.
• Build thought leadership profiles in business and tech media for key leaders, including business unit heads, regional sales, partners and engineering leads.
• Drive extensive proactive coverage in key markets that goes well beyond product announcements and ties into hot editorial trends.
• Manage agency relationships with PR firms. Ensure agencies have clear direction and are mapping closely to identified budgets.

Requirements

• 10 years of relevant experience, either in-house, agency-side, or both. Technology experience is required.
• Works with a high degree of autonomy.
• Exceptional writing/editing and story-telling skills, and the ability to adapt the style, tone, and voice of our business
• Ability to take business and technical concepts and customer outcomes and turn them into interesting and inspiring story lines.
• Experience in building a communication strategy for a geographically-dispersed region with proven / measurable results.
• Excels at communicating across all levels of an organization, quickly building trust and confidence with senior regional executives.
• Understands how to navigate sensitive matters in the press and, when necessary, excels at crisis communications.
• Experience in working with sales, communications and marketing functions, including analyst relations, internal communications, social media, etc.
• Mass communications degree or equivalent.