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About the Role

Coordinate and manage the delivery of key Corporate Affairs moments, campaigns, and the annual calendar of activity. This role manages reporting, alignment with markets, and analysis of activity on a weekly and monthly basis, ensuring high-quality outcomes and providing updates, insights, and lessons learned across the business.

Responsibilities

• Works as a Corporate Affairs leader with the business to plan and deliver key initiatives, assuming responsibility for the success of Corporate Affairs activities including related plans, targets and execution of all activities
• Offers counsel and advice on issues relating to engagement, execution and the effectiveness of the strategy and plan
• Influences and persuades leaders to support new colleague experience ideas
• Identifies risks and issues that could impact external reputation and proactively manages them
• Manages communication activations to support business objectives, demonstrating benefits of modern 2-way engagement strategies as a means of building the colleague experience
• Manages constant campaign and project execution, including updates to Corporate Affairs and EMEA Leadership Team
• Measures and analyzes campaigns and projects, using insights to inform future activities and drive continuous improvement

Requirements

• Strong knowledge across a full range of face to face, digital, print and broadcast communication channels to reach a mix of connected and non-connected employees
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with cultural awareness, sensitivity to the audience and medium in use
• Passionate storyteller and content creator, able to mine for stories across a European wide network of stakeholders
• Able to turn complex information into brief, relevant and engaging content
• Excellent technical skills in applications such as Poppulo (or similar Email client), Qualtrics, MS suite, Adobe (InDesign and Premiere) and digital collaboration and engagement tools
• Excellent project management skills - the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, while able to be resilient and deliver results under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Experience of collaborative working and building strong relationships to influence stakeholders to enable the delivery of effective communication activations

Skills

• Project management
• Attention to detail
• Pro-active mindset
• Media campaign management
• Leadership townhalls calendar management
• Country level change management project management
• Measuring communication channel effectiveness
• Providing insights across communication teams
• Internal communications
• Engagement
• Execution
• Strategy and plan effectiveness
• Colleague experience
• Risk identification and management
• Communication strategy and plan activation
• Business objective support
• 2-way engagement strategies
• Campaign and project execution
• Measurement and analysis
• Continuous improvement
• Face to face communication
• Digital communication
• Print communication
• Broadcast communication
• Verbal communication
• Written communication
• Cultural awareness
• Storytelling
• Content creation
• Stakeholder engagement
• Complex information simplification
• Poppulo
• Qualtrics
• MS suite
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Premiere
• Digital collaboration tools
• Digital engagement tools
• Collaborative working
• Relationship building
• Influencing stakeholders

Location

• UK/ London (Paddington)

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Not specified

Education Level

• Degree level education, or equivalent, with a preference for graduates of Communications

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Discounts
• Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

• DS Smith, together with International Paper, is a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products.
• Believes a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change.
• Employs more than 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more.
• Together with customers, makes the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time.
• Aims to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce.
• Goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.
• People come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges.

Equal Opportunity

• We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.