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About the Role
This is a senior, high-profile role within the Communications function, reporting to the Head of News and Content. You will work closely with executive and board-level stakeholders, lead a medium-sized team, and partner across the organization and with external agencies globally. Your responsibilities will include showcasing Wellcome’s mission and mitigating organizational risk.
Responsibilities
- Oversee a high-performing team responsible for brand strategy, employer brand, corporate communications, and flagship branded partnerships.
- Develop a clear and consistent global strategy that strengthens reputation, influence, and reach.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing expert counsel on high-profile and sensitive issues.
- Protect and enhance organizational reputation.
Requirements
- Substantial senior-level experience in corporate communications, reputation management, and brand marketing within complex organizations.
- Proven track record of managing sensitive, high-profile issues and leading proactive and reactive communications strategies.
- Experience building and evolving brands, including employer brands, and delivering impactful brand-building campaigns based on audience insight.
- Proven experience advising at executive/board level on high-profile communications challenges, providing marcomms expertise that shifts outcomes.
- Substantial experience leading and developing mid-sized high-performing teams and commissioning and managing external agencies, ideally through periods of change.
- Demonstrable experience coordinating budgets, timelines, or resources across multiple projects.
Skills
- Corporate communications
- Reputation management
- Brand marketing
- Brand strategy
- Employer brand
- Global strategy development
- Executive and board-level advising
- Team leadership
- External agency management
- Budget coordination
- Timeline management
- Resource coordination
- Storytelling
- Building brands
- Managing reputation
- Influencing
- Adaptability
Location
- Euston Road offices
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- Executive
Salary/Compensations
- £72,160.00 - £90,200 per annum
Benefits
- Excellent benefits
- Support for employee development
- Open, respectful culture where differences are valued
About the Company
- Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation.
- We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
- We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
- We support researchers, take on big health challenges, campaign for better science, and help everyone get involved with science and health research.
- Wellcome isn't just a supporter of great ideas, it's a great place to work.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do.
- We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive.
- We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
- We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone.
- This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.