Senior Communications Manager - UK & Ireland

Salesforce

Salesforce

Marketing & Communications
London, UK
Posted on Jul 3, 2024

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Job Category

Marketing & Communications

Job Details

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We are seeking a senior communications expert to help drive the communications programme in the UK and Ireland, helping the business and its senior stakeholders to confidently tell its story.

Responsibilities:

  • Communications Strategy: Partner with the UKI and global communications teams to build and execute external communications strategy for UKI that will secure and expand awareness and reputation for Salesforce across the market.

  • Media relations: Maintain strong relationships with business and technology media.

  • Executive Communications: Oversee executive communications programmes for senior executives with bold and authentic narratives for engagement programmes.

  • Narrative and key message development: Build and maintain the external company narrative for UKI, enable the extended teams to tell the story of Salesforce in a way that resonates in the local market, inspires our customers to think big and take action, and promotes brand love across a broad set of audiences.

  • Policy Comms: Collaborate with our Marketing, Government Affairs, Privacy and Legal teams to develop thought-leadership campaigns and engagement.

  • Strategic counsel and leadership: Provide strategic communications counsel to UK business leaders, and act as a go-to point of escalation for communications issues.

  • Operations: Support the management processes around budgeting, reporting and agency team management.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 10+ years experience in communications roles

  • Established trusted relationships across business and technology media

  • Experience in representing and engaging in industry organisations

  • Exposure to managing key stakeholder relationships

  • Excellent leadership skills and experience in working across a matrix organisation to bring people together and deliver a strategy

  • Excellent writing skills to develop messaging and narratives that constantly evolve our storytelling proactively and reactively across internal and external stakeholders

  • Impeccable critical thinking and no ego - we are a dynamic team and everyone pitches in to get the job done

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while multitasking, prioritising projects and communicating priority updates to business partners

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