Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of national, regional and trade media engagement, including proactive campaigns and reactive press handling
• Act as a point of coordination with external communications and public affairs agencies, ensuring clear direction, strong outcomes and consistent messaging
• Manage day to day press enquiries, issue handling and reputational risk, responding at pace to negative or inaccurate coverage
• Translate business priorities into clear external messaging for media, stakeholders and partners
• Own Viridor’s social media channels, including LinkedIn, overseeing content planning, copywriting, scheduling and publishing in line with external priorities
• Deliver a consistent pipeline of high quality content, including site stories, video and leadership visibility, to strengthen the company narrative
• Build and maintain relationships with key journalists, industry bodies and priority stakeholders
• Working closely with the ESG team and sites, lead local PR activity around sites, including community stories, announcements and positive coverage to improve sentiment in host communities
• Support site level stakeholder engagement through strong storytelling and media amplification, rather than direct delivery of engagement programmes
• Support CEO and senior leadership media profiling, identifying opportunities and preparing briefings, messaging and lines to take