Connect to your Industry
At Deloitte, we are keen to build strong and constructive relationships with journalists interested in our industry and those of our clients. Our External Relations team – covering public relations, public affairs and corporate communications – is predominantly based in London and Birmingham, working closely with colleagues across the UK and Deloitte’s global network of member firms.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
Reporting to a Senior PR Manager in the External Relations team, you’ll be responsible for developing and implementing media relations campaigns for your areas of responsibility.
You will manage media relations for designated business areas and industry groups and support the wider External Relations team on corporate campaigns. You’ll do this in close collaboration with the firm’s industry and business leaders, as well as colleagues across corporate affairs, marketing, social media, research and public affairs.
With a keen interest in the news, business and political agenda, you’ll have an eye for what makes a good story and excellent writing standards for press releases, comments, social media posts and opinion pieces.
Additionally, you’ll need to be able to lead, manage and deliver multiple projects to tight deadlines, and influence senior leaders and stakeholders within the business.
Specific responsibilities:
- Develop, manage and execute PR strategies for assigned areas, ensuring they are in line with the firm’s priorities, objectives and wider corporate campaigns.
- Influence and support marketing and research activities, developing new ideas with the relevant teams to ensure newsworthy insights and coverage.
- Understand and identify business issues that Deloitte’s spokespeople can discuss across national and trade media, including print, broadcast and social channels, and manage proactive and reactive media requests.
- Lead on the drafting of press releases, media comments, social media posts and opinion pieces, as well as manage daily news summaries and PR coverage for your areas.
- Develop new and existing journalist relationships across key media publications.
- Support and develop junior members of the team.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
You’ll need experience of working in communications/PR or the media, and we’re particularly interested in hearing from people with knowledge and experience of key areas such as financial services, M&A and climate/sustainability. You’ll also need to be a great team player with a high level of personal autonomy, and have a hunger to learn, improve and do great work.
Here are the professional skills and requirements you’ll need to demonstrate:
Essential:
- Experience in public relations (gained either in-house or within an agency) or journalism.
- Excellent writing skills that will be tested during the interview process.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to build solid relationships, manage junior members of the team and gain credibility with stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Evidence of leading on the development and implementation of strategic media relations plans.
- Strong attention to detail and a willingness to be proactive in order to get the job done. Interest in the news agenda and networking to build journalist contacts.
Desirable:
- Be a creative thinker with high standards and someone who has excellent attention to detail.
- Highly organised individual able to successfully manage multiple stakeholders and projects under time pressures.
- Commercial awareness and a solid understanding of the business landscape for Deloitte and the wider economy, with a grasp of the role PR can play in supporting the firm’s objectives.
- Confidence to stand firm and say no when needed, while remaining diplomatic and consensus-driven.
- Experience in public affairs, including political engagement and monitoring would be an advantage.
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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact.“
-Jhon, Enabling Functions
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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