Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of Macmillan's media channel strategy across national, devolved, local and community media.
• Oversee proactive and reactive media relations activity, maximising opportunities within the news agenda and managing media enquiries.
• Provide strategic communications and reputational advice to colleagues and senior stakeholders across the organisation.
• Leading and project managing major media moments as well as delivering focused briefs as relevant to the role
• Build strong partnerships across Communications, Brand, Content and other internal stakeholder teams to deliver integrated activity
• Use audience insight, monitoring and evaluation to measure impact and continuously improve media performance.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing and inclusive team, including matrix-managed colleagues.
• Manage reputational risk, issues and crisis communications while supporting organisational objectives.

Requirements

• Significant experience working in a senior communications or media relations role.
• Significant experience managing and developing teams, including matrix management.
• Experience of strategic communications planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Strong experience of reputation, issues and crisis management.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to create high-quality communications materials.
• Outstanding relationship-building, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of devolution and health and social care policy, with Welsh language skills desirable but not essential

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days.
• Pension matched up to 7.5%.
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications.
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm.
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more.