Senior Media Relations Manager (six-month FTC)
Lloyds Banking Group
Locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Halifax, Leeds
Salary: GBP 60,000 - 80,000
JOB TITLE: Senior Media Relations Manager (6-months FTC)
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this Opportunity
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic commercial and corporate communications professional to join us to drive a reputationally-significant part of the Group’s media relations and communications framework. You will help bring our purpose to life, while leading on live issues in a way that promotes and protects the Group’s reputation. We do this daily through engagement with national media and through the insight and counsel that we provide as a communications management team to the wider business.
The role will focus on communications support for legal, commercial, and corporate business areas. You’ll need to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal partners as well as media using strong communication skills, with the ability to cut through complexity. You'll have significant experience in communicating corporate messages to highly experienced journalists with confidence and credibility. There will be scope for you to demonstrate your passion for communications, as you will represent the senior management team with responsibilities to help shape the day-to-day running of the media team with a proactive, can-do approach.
What you'll need
* Deliver media activity in a fast-paced environment to support the legal, corporate, and commercial business areas, including projects working with external partners and promoting the Group’s reputation to external audiences.
* Provide media advice to our legal partners and business areas, including challenging and influencing senior partners.
* Handle enquiries from the media relating to corporate and commercial banking, with a focus on Group-level issues.
* Identify, raise, and mitigate emerging risks to protect the reputation and interests of the Group, our colleagues, and customers.
And any experience of these would be really useful
* Drive, critical thinking, and ambition to work with a fantastic team in a lively press office.
* Significant experience in communicating commercial and corporate media messages.
* Understanding of internal communications to support our business partners.
* Ability to act as a spokesperson, including on an out-of-hours basis.
* Evidence of positive working relationships with key partners in other divisions and functions outside media relations.
* A proven track record to work under pressure, handle time effectively, be a strong teammate, and work closely with colleagues from multiple teams.
* Experience of handling issues and crisis management, and the ability to quickly develop a strong understanding of complex issues.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive, and perform at their best.
As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with disabilities (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility regarding office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or neurodivergent conditions. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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