Senior Media and Campaigns Manager - DS Smith : Job Details

About the role

We have a fabulous opportunity for a Senior Media & Campaigns Manager to join the Corporate Affairs Team at DS Smith. This role will be highly visible during a very exciting time for DS Smith as we continue to be at the forefront of sustainability and innovation.

Leading the delivery of the global media relations strategy and executing high impact communications campaigns, this role plays an important and influential leadership role in the team and across the business, helping to promote a highly collaborative approach to working. Storymining and adept proactive media relations are critical to this role because you will be responsible for surfacing and producing stories of sustainability and innovation on an ongoing basis. In addition, you will be part of the team devising and delivering bold, progressive campaigns that support delivery of DS Smith's growth strategy and brand positioning. Creating and managing new and existing relationships with the media will be vital to this role.

In addition to thinking strategically and commercially, you will have hands-on experience of formulating campaign plans that support the business objectives. You will be innovative in your approach, be responsible for proactively and re-actively handling media, and will provide senior counsel for media opportunities. The role will require you to be adept in creating a range of content in various styles, ranging from campaign media materials and content to supportive materials for our markets and divisions to deploy with us.

So, if you have a strong appetite for media relations and a nose for a story, campaigning experience, excellent written communication skills, and want to create content that makes an impact - then we want to hear from you.

About you

• An experienced media operative with strong relationships across tier one media
• Experience delivering media relations and campaigns
• Understanding of print, broadcast, and interactive communication channels
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with sensitivity to the audience and medium in use
• Ability to advise senior leaders on the appropriate use of media relations that add business value
• Degree qualified
• Experience managing projects - able to see a project through from creative ideas to implementation and measurement of outcomes

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Car allowance
• Pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
• Private medical insurance
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Discounts
• Cycle to work scheme

Location: This is a hybrid role, split between the London Paddington office and home - however flexibility will be required at times.