Communication Strategist V

The Communication Strategist will design and integrate communication and engagement plans by assessing team members and business needs, defining goals, asking the right questions, framing the problems to solve, and engaging partners and creative teams towards a final vision.

Qualifications:

* 7-10+ years developing and presenting communication plans and strategies within a media, publishing, PR or advertising agency environment.

* Demonstrated expertise for how audiences consume and experience content and media.

* Proven ability to ‘look around corners’ to understand business challenges and formulate effective communication strategies that support the audience needs and business goals.

* Confident in navigating a large cross functional organization, balancing multiple stakeholders.

* Strong executional abilities, able to go from strategy, to ensuring execution is on target and on brief.

* Possess excellent writing skills that can deliver clear messages that motivate behavior change while meeting business goals.

* Extraordinary ability to organically grow internal relationships, work effectively within cross-functional teams, and lead through ambiguity in order to produce forward thinking creative deliverables.

* Exceptional learning agility – ability to listen, learn, and apply insights during dynamic situations.

* Experience working with international peers and leadership teams to define global communication strategies and support the needs of our geos.

Responsibilities:

* This role is part strategist, part account manager, and part writer:

* As a strategist, you live and breathe the audience and customer – from behavioral

insights to ways of connecting. You are the master of crafting the strategic approach

and framing the problem in order to fuel teams to get to the solution. You synthesize

large amounts of information to create plans that put the right information in the right

place, at the right time, for the right audience.

* As an account manager, you are an expert in negotiating with partners and business

leaders. Your briefs and plans provide the creative team with clarity, leaving no

ambiguity about the objective and how things connect. You collaborate with the

creative and producer teams throughout development and execution. You’re able to

explain the value of digital media, editorial programming, and communication

techniques to non-creative audiences, both in person and in writing.

* As an editor/writer, you possess a strong editorial point of view and narrative ability,

building key messages for work ranging from seasonal campaigns, to product

launches, to employee initiatives. Whether writing talking points for senior leaders or

partnering on a script that will move the team towards a shared vision, your

storytelling is applied via strategic communications and engagement narratives.

* Strong executional abilities, able to go from strategy, to ensuring execution is on target

and on brief.

* Possess excellent writing skills that can deliver clear messages that motivate behavior

change while meeting business goals.

* Education: BA/BS in Marketing, Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Editorial Writing or

related field preferred.

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.