Director, Communications UK

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and amplify the UK brand narrative across earned, owned, and paid touchpoints; shape messaging, lead PR, and steward crisis-ready communications that align with business objectives and audience needs.

  • Own brand storytelling and tone, translating vision into corporate, medical, and consumer narratives for external audiences.
  • Lead media relations, thought leadership, and crisis communications while building a scalable comms function with strong stakeholder partnerships.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Growth to run integrated campaigns and ensure insight-driven, culturally relevant storytelling.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As Communications Lead for the UK you will be responsible for shaping, protecting, and amplifying the brand’s voice across all external touchpoints for the market.
  • Role purpose: translate business objectives into compelling narratives.
  • What You’ll Deliver in the First 6–12 Months
  • Translate company vision, values, and strategy into clear and compelling corporate, medical and consumer communication
  • Support and evolve the brand narrative, positioning, tone of voice, and messaging framework
  • Lead public relations strategy, including media relations, thought leadership, press releases, and crisis communications
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with media, agencies, and key external stakeholders
  • Drive proactive messaging / thought leadership around proactive healthcare
  • Input into content strategy across brand campaigns, editorial, social, and owned channels
  • Partner with Marketing, Product, and Growth teams to develop integrated brand and communication campaigns
  • Ensure storytelling is insight-driven, culturally relevant, and audience-centric
  • Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing brand communications team

Requirements

  • Proven experience in brand communications, PR, leading consumer communication strategy and projects
  • Strong background in media relations, storytelling, and content leadership; strong network and built relationships with media
  • Experience building and leading high-performing teams
  • Experience in a fast-growing, global, and matrixed environments
  • Crisis communication and reputation management experience
  • Strong expertise in digital, social, and emerging communication platforms
  • Strategic thinking with creative problem-solving and focused execution
  • Strong editorial judgment and storytelling instincts
  • Strong stakeholder management experience paired with leadership through influence skills
  • High cultural awareness to drive community relevant initiatives
  • Data-driven decision-making combined with brand intuition
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    Neko Health

    Neko Health is a Swedish health-tech company co-founded in 2018 by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek. Neko's vision is to create a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy through preventive measures and early detection. This requires completely reimagining the patient's experience and incorporating the latest advances in sensors and AI. Neko has developed a new medical scanning technology concept to make it possible to do broad and non-invasive health data collection that is convenient and affordable for the public.

    Founded in 2018
    Stockholm, Stockholm County, SWE
    327 employees (23 in marketing)