About the Role
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a client communications team, playing a key role in delivering high-calibre, multi-channel communications solutions for a blue-chip client base. It's ideal for a motivated graduate with a curious mind, a desire to learn corporate communications best practices, and a keen eye for detail. The position emphasizes career development, offering training and autonomy to contribute ideas and develop new skills within a supportive and collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Support the wider team with the delivery of mixed-media projects.
- Provide exemplary client service.
- Contribute to the delivery of internal projects across the business.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of client businesses and market trends in corporate communications.
- Support the day-to-day management of projects by preparing and driving project schedules.
- Ensure all internal and external deadlines are met.
- Produce core project documentation, including contact reports, project briefs, and status reports.
- Support and contribute to communications briefs, page plans, and photography briefs.
- Manage the author's corrections turnaround process to ensure error-free project delivery.
- Liaise and coordinate with suppliers, including printers and photographers.
- Brief in work to external suppliers and ensure timely submission of external work.
- Develop understanding of mixed-media solutions, creative, print, and digital processes.
- Seek ways to enhance current processes and procedures.
- Organize meetings and conference calls.
- Maintain orderly filing of all documents and materials.
- Develop commercial awareness of job costing and fee structures.
- Learn to effectively manage project budgets.
- Implement quality assurance and financial processes, including creating budget proposals, completing reconciliations, raising purchase orders, and completing timesheets.
- Build strong client relationships with day-to-day client contacts.
- Attend and participate in client meetings and calls.
- Deliver exemplary client services to maintain high client satisfaction.
- Assist with the delivery of client and new business proposals.
- Conduct research for proposals.
- Produce budget proposals for new business.
- Manage the internal schedule and process for new business proposals.
- Support internal teams with research into best practice corporate communications.
- Provide insights to support the development of market-leading publications.
- Drive understanding of clients' businesses, industries, and trends in corporate communications.
- Articulate the company's proposition and views on key market insights.
Requirements
- A minimum of a 2:1 degree, preferably in economics, marketing and communications, business, or languages.
- Ideally some agency or client-side experience within marketing and communications.
- Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills are essential.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Fully conversant with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills necessary to build trust and respect both externally and internally.
- High-quality service ethic and committed to customer service excellence.
- Ambition to self-improve.
- Ability to manage many urgent and often conflicting priorities.
- Strong 'can do' attitude with an innate ability to take initiative and work independently as well as in a team.
- Flexibility and team-focused, non-hierarchical approach with a 'roll up your sleeves' attitude.
- A great sense of humour and fun.
Skills
- Client communications
- Multi-channel communications
- Annual reports
- Sustainability reports
- Investor relations
- Employee communications
- Online reporting centres
- Website content
- Corporate communications
- Project management
- Client service
- Mixed-media projects
- Creative processes
- Print processes
- Digital processes
- Budget management
- Client relationship management
- New business proposals
- Research
- Strategic development
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
Location
- Bishops Park, Putney Bridge
Work Type
- Hybrid working (min 3 days a week in the office)
- Option to work remotely somewhere other than home for a maximum of 2 weeks per calendar year
Experience Level
- Graduate level
- Entry-level
Education Level
- Minimum 2:1 degree
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary based on skills and experience
Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year with ‘bonus’ days for long service
- Bonus scheme
- Personal development opportunities
- Group life assurance
- Group personal pension plan
- Employee assistance programme
- Lots of social events
- Weekly themed breakfast
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- Black Sun Global is a stakeholder advisory and engagement agency driving transformation and positive change for ambitious brands for over 20 years.
- Expertise in disclosure and reporting, ESG, sustainability, and digital engagement.
- Reshapes how organisations connect with customers, investors, employees, and the wider world.
- Trusted partners to influential global organisations, sparking innovation and sustainable performance.
- Founders of the Positive Change Group, aiming to create a new kind of stakeholder relations partner.
- World-class specialists work closely with executive leadership teams to protect reputations, inspire trust, and promote responsible business practices.
- Positive Change Group is a global stakeholder engagement business where specialist agencies work as one.
- Brings together reporting, culture, communications, and sustainability through a connected model.
- Helps organisations close the gap between what they say and what people see.
- Headquartered in London, with an international network across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and South Africa.
- Supports over 100 multinational organisations at C-suite and board level.
- Brings together bold thinkers, challengers, and collaborators from across disciplines, sectors, and geographies.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees.
- Zero tolerance for discrimination.
- Fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help the company grow, innovate, create the best work, and be relevant.
- Welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
- Encourages applicants to disclose any steps needed to ensure a comfortable recruitment process.
