Responsibilities

• The Media Relations Manager is responsible for ensuring all Space Systems media engagements align and support the company’s overall media strategy, reflecting priorities at both the business and enterprise level.
• In this position, you work in constant collaboration with other communicators across the company to help inform your media strategy on behalf of the Space Systems businesses.
• As part of that responsibility, you support business communicators to identity and implement media strategies that will influence stakeholder decision making in favor of Northrop Grumman, including opportunities to promote important milestones, enhance customer engagement events and more.
• The Media Relations Manager is also responsible for ensuring company spokespeople are prepared for media engagements and all logistics are secured in addition to engaging with reporters and public affairs officers, when necessary, and ensuring those engagements are properly planned, prepped, tracked, measured, and reported.
• Relatedly, in this role, the Manger leads the media monitoring, metrics and reporting requirements associated with the business and enterprise priorities for which the Space Systems sector is aligned.
• The Media Relations Manager is also responsible for writing and editing news content material, media prep materials, and other content as required.
• This person will correct inaccuracies and act as a company spokesperson, developing and maintaining relationships with key reporters to help shape and manage coverage for Space Systems priorities.
• Lead an earned media portfolio designed to elevate company thought leadership on priority technology focus areas that support an enterprise narrative focused on innovation.
• Prepare and position Space Systems subject matter experts for earned media opportunities and maintain coordination and collaboration with the Sector Communications Strategy team on a steady media presence/narrative to promote the Space Systems business portfolio.
• Prepare and share regular results, media trends, and metrics on media relations efforts at a variety of levels within the company and leverage those results to evolve strategies and approaches to achieve intended communications and business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 10 years of experience; or master’s degree and minimum or 8 years of experience in media relations, communications, public relations, or public affairs for a medium-to large-sized organization.
• Experience leading people.
• Demonstrated knowledge in the developing, deploying and activating strategic media & communication campaigns with measurable business impact.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time; travel may include intra-office within the DC metro area, as well as other sites and locations, in support of the business, as needed.

Preferred

• Experience working in a large, matrixed and/or geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience developing productive relationships with colleagues, executives, and reporters.
• Experience in technology, aerospace, defense or other science-related business or government field.
• Sound judgement in decision making and leadership actions with capabilities to drive storytelling through creative and/or other disruptive methods, ideas & approaches.
• Experience Zignal and MuckRack reporter database tools.
• Familiarity with defense, space, and aerospace industry reporters.

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business