Responsibilities

• Global Communications & Press Strategy
• Own RIXO's global communications and press strategy - annual and seasonal planning across markets, audiences and channels - aligned to wider brand, marketing and commercial objectives.
• Lead communications around collection launches, campaigns, brand partnerships and collaborations, ensuring consistent, compelling RIXO storytelling globally and identifying opportunities to reach new audiences.
• Manage communications relationships with partner brands and their agencies, ensuring collaborations deliver meaningful brand value and cultural relevance.
• Lead the profiling strategy for founders Henrietta Rix and Orlagh McCloskey, identifying high-value media, speaking and thought-leadership opportunities.
• Act as senior spokesperson and guardian of the RIXO brand, ensuring communications remain consistent with its values and positioning.
• Identify potential communications risks and ensure appropriate plans are in place, leading the response to reputational issues or crises in partnership with senior leadership
• Press & Media Relations
• Lead global press strategy and day-to-day media relations across UK, US and international markets, managing the Senior Press Manager and maintaining a high-level network of editors, writers and broadcasters.
• Oversee press launches, previews, showroom appointments and editorial seeding, developing compelling press materials and messaging with the wider team.

Requirements

• Proven experience in fashion Communications / PR, including significant experience working in-house for a fashion brand.
• Experience operating at Head of / Director level or in a comparable senior role, with proven delivery of global communications strategies.
• An established network of senior fashion media, editors, stylists, influencers, celebrities, VIPs and cultural tastemakers, with strong experience across UK and international markets, particularly the US.
• Demonstrable experience managing agencies and external partners, leading and developing a team, and managing communications budgets and reporting against KPIs.
• A deep understanding of the fashion landscape, from media and talent to emerging cultural trends, and know what makes a brand culturally relevant

Benefits

• Hybrid working: three days on-site each week.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Generous staff discount across all RIXO collections plus early access to sample sales before anyone else.
• Team socials that actually happen. We celebrate the work and the people behind it.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave designed around real life, not policy minimums.
• Health cash plan to cover the everyday stuff: opticians, physio, dental. The things that add up.