PR & Communications Manager (16 month fixed term contract)

London, UK (Hybrid)

£68K/yr – £80K/yrSenior LevelTemporary

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and harmonize media relations to protect and promote Monzo’s agenda, turning reactive coverage into trusted narratives while proactively mining stories across the business and advising senior stakeholders on sensitive issues.

  • Coordinate reactive and proactive media across fraud, financial crime, security, customers and payments to shape a consistent narrative.
  • Craft and pitch compelling stories for events, product launches and milestone announcements through key channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Supporting delivery of the trust communications strategy, managing both reactive and proactive media across areas like fraud, financial crime, security, vulnerable customers, payments and technology
  • Working across both corporate and consumer communications, promoting Monzo’s business priorities, product launches, milestone announcements and proactive consumer campaigns across key channels
  • Working with the teams across the business and our agencies to prepare for events, executive profiling and interviews
  • Managing reactive press stories
  • Monitoring, tracking and proactively analysing Monzo’s presence in the media
  • Mine stories from across the business that support our communications goals
  • Being an excellent team player and problem solver within a busy press office
  • Working cross-functionally with teams and stakeholders across the business to create compelling narratives and key messages across reactive and proactive projects
  • Providing trusted advice to senior stakeholders on sensitive, complex issues
  • Pitching great stories to journalists
  • Building and maintain great relationships across key media and the business, spotting risks and opportunities that inform our agenda
  • Staying on top of emerging sector themes, trends and news

Requirements

  • A communications professional who has experience working as part of a busy press office, be that in-house or at an agency
  • Excellent at media relations
  • A hands-on team player who can flex across reactive and proactive work as well as both corporate and consumer
  • Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines
  • Excellent at communicating with the ability to manage senior stakeholders
  • Passionate about Monzo's mission and committed to delivering exceptional results
  • A networker that can collaborate across different teams at every level and a keen interest to build your network outside of Monzo
  • A great storyteller with exceptional writing skills
  • Great at problem solving and issues management
  • Obsessed with data - both in the mining of it for proactive work and the tracking of our KPIs
  • A forward-thinker and a keen learner who is always on the lookout for trends, themes, and stories that advance Monzo’s mission

Preferred

Benefits

  • £68,000 - £80,000 incentive rewards tied to your performance
  • This role is based in our London office, with a hybrid working environment.
  • We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
  • £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
  • Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits .

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