Senior Communications Manager

UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own external communications and media strategy to advance a city-wide fibre narrative, coordinating across trade, technology, and national media while partnering with content and social teams to spot proactive opportunities.

  • Media relations: Lead press office activity across national, trade, local, and technology outlets.
  • External plans: Deliver communications plans aligned to business priorities and narrative.
  • Opportunity identification: Collaborate with social/content teams to seize proactive media moments.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leading media relations and press office activity across trade, technology, local and national media
  • Delivering external communications plans that reinforce CityFibre’s narrative and business priorities
  • Identifying and executing proactive media opportunities in collaboration with social and content teams
  • Developing clear, engaging content to communicate key messages and drive awareness
  • Monitoring media coverage and industry trends, reporting impact and advising senior leaders

Requirements

  • Proven experience building and maintaining effective media relationships across national, telecom and technology press
  • A strong background in developing communications plans, timelines and proactive media opportunities
  • Experience running a responsive press office, managing reputational risk and working to tight deadlines
  • The ability to analyse data to identify trends, insights and clear messages
  • Experience in financial PR, content creation and stakeholder management
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CityFibre

3.6 Glassdoor

At CityFibre, we’re building a new, intelligent, open-access fibre network, purpose built for the data age. We’re upgrading communities across the country, giving people a better foundation for their digital lives, enabling businesses to innovate, and helping to strengthen the UK economy.Our national networks are expanding rapidly, and we are already the network of choice for major Internet Service Providers and mobile operators including TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone and Zen, as well as dozens of exciting smaller providers.Using our networks, our customers can provide theirs, be they homes, businesses, schools, or hospitals with broadband, Ethernet and mobile connections so quick and reliable, you can practically take them for granted.With almost two million premises already passed, our fully financed rollout programme is on track to serve a third of the UK. That’s around 8m homes, 800k businesses, 400k local authority sites and 250k 5G access points that will soon have access to the UK’s finest digital infrastructure.

Founded in 2011
London, England, GBR
1.7K employees
61% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
161.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.1%
Direct
45.7%
Referral
4.3%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.7K

Funding

Total Funding
$11.5B
Last Raise
$674.9M
Debt Financing, 11 months ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2025
    Private Equity • $674.9M
  • Jul 2025
    Debt Financing • $1.3B
  • Jun 2022
    Debt Financing • $6.2B

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