Media Relations Senior Manager, Indonesia

Media Relations Senior Manager

Vero, a regional, award-winning communications agency, is opening an opportunity for a Media Relations Senior Manager to join our creative, collaborative, and progressive team. This role is for a seasoned professional ready to lead and inspire while driving success for some of the best brands in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership skills, a passion for media and emerging trends, and the ability to guide both clients and teams toward achieving impactful goals.

In return, Vero will provide a high-quality, rewarding professional experience built on the values of kindness, curiosity, and trust.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee media relations strategies for clients, ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Cultivate and maintain robust, high-level relationships with key media contacts across various platforms.
• Provide strategic insights into the evolving media landscape to clients and teams.
• Guide the development of media lists, invitations, and follow-up processes, ensuring seamless execution.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on media coverage, offering actionable insights to enhance client visibility.
• Represent Vero and clients at media events, ensuring meaningful and high-impact engagements.
• Address and manage issues that could impact client or agency brands effectively and proactively.
• Drive innovative approaches to media outreach and storytelling to achieve maximum results.
• Mentor and support junior team members, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or a related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in media relations or public relations, with at least 2 years in a leadership role within an agency setting.
• Exceptional fluency in English and Bahasa, both verbal and written.
• Proven ability to deliver strategic media counsel and develop impactful communications strategies.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate media coverage and provide actionable recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in high-pressure, fast-paced environments.
• In-depth knowledge of agency protocols, procedures, and processes.
• A results-oriented mindset, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Passion for learning and staying ahead of industry trends.

Travel and Place of Work:

Your usual location for work will be the company's office in Indonesia. Your place of work may vary depending on the Company’s needs, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia or other locations as instructed from time to time. Additional expenses incurred by you because of the Company directing that you work from a location other than your usual location, will be reimbursed by the Company.

Standard working hours are flexible, Monday through Friday. This may vary depending on workload and client needs.

Working at Vero:

You will be a member of a multicultural team of communication specialists spread across the region and brought together by their love for creative and efficient strategies and positive conversations. We pride in creating workplaces that feel like home, informal and deeply stimulating.

Other Benefits:

• Hybrid Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work from on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
• Tech set-up: one company laptop, subscriptions to relevant industry media as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
• International Travel: As much as possible we push our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year (non-pandemic that is) manager-level team members have the opportunity to visit some of our other offices, attend industry events and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.
• Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgement when given guidelines for making decisions about taking holiday and we know that our teams work better when they can rest and take a proper break from work. Our goal is that every team take an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.
• Maternity and Paternity leave: we provide maternity leave for 6 months and paternity leave for 1 month.
• Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team-members with training tools and resources, both internal and external and we even incentivize employees to complete classes. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding.
• Health Insurance: The Company will provide a private medical insurance as a benefit. The actual package and structure of the insurance may be determined by the Company and at its sole discretion.
• Mental Health Budget: We understand the importance of access to proper mental health support, all our employees can access a minimum budget of $500 USD per year for therapy with internationally trained psychologists.