Responsibilities

• Supporting the development and delivery of strategic communications and reputation programmes for B2B organisations.
• Researching businesses, industries, markets, audiences and wider conversations to uncover useful insights and opportunities.
• Developing an understanding of clients’ commercial objectives and translating them into relevant communications opportunities.
• Helping identify what organisations need to be known for and the conversations they have credibility to lead.
• Supporting the development of positioning, messaging frameworks, narratives and key communications themes.
• Identifying stories, expertise, evidence and proof points that strengthen a client’s positioning.
• Writing high-quality strategic content and communications across client accounts.
• Turning complex, technical or corporate subjects into clear, compelling communications.
• Supporting PR, expert commentary, case studies, campaigns, video and thought leadership activity.
• Developing clear briefs for PR, video and creative teams.

Requirements

• You may currently work within strategic communications, corporate communications, PR, reputation, brand strategy or another strategically led communications environment.
• An excellent writer with a strong instinct for clear, engaging and purposeful communications.
• A strategic thinker who is interested in understanding the bigger picture, not just delivering individual pieces of content.
• Commercially curious and interested in how businesses operate, compete and grow.
• Naturally curious and able to get underneath unfamiliar industries and subjects quickly.
• Good at simplifying complexity and finding the clear story within complicated information.
• Confident working with clients and comfortable communicating with different levels of seniority.
• Proactive, with a natural instinct to spot stories, insights and opportunities.
• Organised and dependable, able to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Comfortable moving between thinking and doing; from research and strategy through to writing and delivery.

Preferred

• Experience working with B2B organisations or complex industries would be advantageous, but we’re ultimately looking for someone with strong writing skills, intellectual curiosity and the potential to become an outstanding strategic communications practitioner.