External Communications Manager - Schneider Electric : Job Details

Mission:

Join Schneider Electric’s UK&I Zone Marketing team to help drive strategic marketing, thought leadership, and executive communications. This role is ideal for a digitally savvy communicator with strong planning skills and a strategic mindset. You’ll work across a broad remit of communications strategies—from end user marketing and demand generation to thought leadership and PR, strategic partnerships, and executive level communications.  

Responsibilities:

• Establish and operationalise the Segment & Brand thought leadership and external content strategy in close collaboration with Marketing, business units, and Government Affairs
• Lead the PR relationship and own accountability and outcomes for PR spend
• Collaborate with Segment Managers and the Partnerships & Innovation Hub Manager to amplify strategic sales enablement initiatives
• In collaboration with peer function, develop and operationalise internal executive communications strategy
• Own the strategic definition of digitally-forward integrated marketing and communications campaigns, aligned to commercial priorities – collaborate with Digital & Marcom teams to execute
• Draft high-quality written content including executive messaging, thought leadership articles, and PR materials.
• Coordinate with digital team, external agencies, and internal stakeholders to deliver campaigns on time and to a high standard
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, spanning recommendations and outcomes reporting
• Build strong relationships across the organisation to ensure alignment and impact.

Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years in marketing, communications, or related roles (agency or in-house).
• Commercial marketing experience with excellent business insight
• Strong planning and organisational capabilities.
• Strategic and analytical thinker with a bias for action and outcomes.
• Comfortable navigating complexity and matrixed environments.
• Self-starter with a solutions focus
• Ability to influence others
• Digitally fluent across platforms and tools
• Exceptional writing, editing, and PowerPoint building skills

At Schneider Electric, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of our organisation, it's an integral part of our history, culture, and identity.  We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration.

We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve. As a result, our teams are stronger to drive the company's future.

“We are proudly participating in the Disability Confident Program offering support to people in the workplace who consider themselves living with a disability.”

What we offer you:

Competitive salary & Bonus Scheme, 28 Days Annual Leave + Public Holidays, Holiday Buy & Sell programme, Pension Scheme, Employee Share Ownership Programme, Various Health & Wellbeing Support Options, Gym Flex, Open Talent Market (internal mobility opportunities + access to mentors & projects globally), Shopping & Dining Discounts, Learning Portal and much more.

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Mission:

Join Schneider Electric’s UK&I Zone Marketing team to help drive strategic marketing, thought leadership, and executive communications. This role is ideal for a digitally savvy communicator with strong planning skills and a strategic mindset. You’ll work across a broad remit of communications strategies—from end user marketing and demand generation to thought leadership and PR, strategic partnerships, and executive level communications.  

Responsibilities:

• Establish and operationalise the Segment & Brand thought leadership and external content strategy in close collaboration with Marketing, business units, and Government Affairs
• Lead the PR relationship and own accountability and outcomes for PR spend
• Collaborate with Segment Managers and the Partnerships & Innovation Hub Manager to amplify strategic sales enablement initiatives
• In collaboration with peer function, develop and operationalise internal executive communications strategy
• Own the strategic definition of digitally-forward integrated marketing and communications campaigns, aligned to commercial priorities – collaborate with Digital & Marcom teams to execute
• Draft high-quality written content including executive messaging, thought leadership articles, and PR materials.
• Coordinate with digital team, external agencies, and internal stakeholders to deliver campaigns on time and to a high standard
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, spanning recommendations and outcomes reporting
• Build strong relationships across the organisation to ensure alignment and impact.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our  IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyo