Media Relations is part of the Communications department and has a very close working relationship with Executive Directors. It operates a consultancy-style service for internal clients (mostly in marketing) and has regular contact with colleagues in head office in Madrid.
Your role will be to help manage the liaison between the company and the media to ensure all broadcast, electronic and print media present the company in the most favourable light possible. You will also assist the Senior Media Relations Managers in implementing media plans and assist in the day-to-day running of the Media Relations function.
The position on offer is for a Media Relations Managers in the department, reporting into one of the Senior Media Relations. This position will primarily cover Business Banking (but also need to pick up other Corporate & Commercial banking products as required). You'll develop annual PR plans for internal clients and different banking products, whilst regularly reviewing these. You'll manage media relationship-building programmes for key clients and the press team and when required, you will also deputise for the Senior Media Relations Manager who looks after Santander Corporate Bank at meetings.
To succeed you must have experience of working in a press office for a major company and/or working in a PR agency with previous experience of strategic PR planning. You'll have proven relationships with national newspaper journalists and enjoy dealing with them. You'll have enough gravitas to influence senior executives and senior journalists and be able to calculate risks of various strategies for dealing with any media issues. With newspaper standard written skills and excellent oral communications skills you will also be a self-driven individual who will take ownership for your work. Ideally you will have Financial Services experience.
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