Media Relations and Campaign Manager (12 months)

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Media Relations and Campaign Manager

• This is an opportunity to utilise your PR experience and advance your career in an exciting, fast paced role.
• As Media Campaign Manager, you’ll be responsible for promoting and protecting the reputation of our Natwest and Natwest Group brand in Wales and the South West of England, as well as working on national activities across our other consumer brands.
• Joining a creative, collaborative and influential team, you can expect lots of variety and great visibility for you and your work.
• This role will be available for a period of twelve months.

What you'll do

In this key role, you’ll work closely with stakeholders and colleagues to create, deliver and execute innovative and well-rounded media campaigns for a range of topics across the bank. By developing an excellent network of journalist contacts outside of the traditional finance media landscape, you’ll help to ensure that our strategy is communicated in a creative way.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Preparing and managing campaign plans that are suitable for multi-channel platforms.
• Producing high quality content to support plans, including video, graphics, audio and written material.
• Working closely with your team to track and maintain a report of the bank’s coverage.
• Making sure that campaigns have both long and short-term goals in mind, supporting our strategy of building a stronger, simpler and fairer bank.

The skills you'll need

To join us in this role, you’ll need experience of dealing with the media and gaining positive coverage through a range of means, such as press releases, social media, managing events, research and case studies. You’ll have a strong grasp of political and economic issues, and demonstrate first class news sense and judgement. You'll be familiar with the media landscape in Wales and the South West of England and you will be a creative thinker.

Experience of working in a busy media office or agency would be an advantage.

You’ll also need:

• To be based anywhere in Wales or South West England.
• To be a confident communicator, acting with discretion and sensitivity when required.
• The ability to influence at a senior level.
• Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• The ability to work using your own initiative and as part of a wider team.
• Great knowledge and experience of the media landscape in Wales and the South West.