Job Description
You are responsible for :
• Pro-actively seeking out media opportunities on key subjects that will help position Versuni (Formerly, Philips Domestic Appliance)
• Managing reputational risks through highly effective, consistent spokesmanship.
• Own the media perception on the most influential and share price sensitive topics and act as the spokesperson for the company and its executives to some of the most impactful global publications.
• Influencer outreach & barter relationship creation and management
• CSR – planning & execution
• Internal communications
• Employer Branding
• Personal Brand – CEO & CMO
• Have a good eye for a story, excellent writing skills, and a proven track record of developing strong relationships with media and stakeholders.
• External media relations
• Issues and crisis management in Public Relationships
• Ensuring full understanding of your audiences with key developments across the company as needed
• Announcing key corporate events such as mergers and acquisitions, alliances, launches, events, board- related affairs
• Building understanding with media around the strategic direction and financial performance
• Handling executives in the positioning and issues management process
• Ensure full alignment of the content of your work with the CoE’s in communications that are creating planning and content.
• Work seamlessly with the business in helping them drive Versuni’s reputation through effective corporate PR guidance.
• Developing policies relating to a company’s ethical, sustainable, and environmental responsibilities. Ensuring a company has a positive impact on local communities and the environment.
• Raising public awareness of a company’s social responsibility commitments through marketing.
• Developing and executing CSR programs as well as conducting periodic program reviews to assess outcomes and effectiveness.
• Acting as the focal point for the Company’s CSR initiatives in geography and building relationships with community partners and key stakeholders
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience.
• 8-12 years of strong experience in PR/Communication role.
• Strong experience managing complex communications processes across a matrixed organization.
• Strong experience communicating with multiple, diverse stakeholder groups, with proven track record in media relations beyond product PR.
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Ability to lead through influence and to work effectively with senior executives.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with global teams located around the world.
• Strong ability to creatively problem solves.
• Editorial skills
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills and posture.
• Business and innovation acumen
In return, we offer you.
A meaningful career, with new challenges in our dynamic organization, working in an encouraging multinational and multicultural environment. We are happy to provide you with this opportunity to work with new technologies. You will be surrounded by passionate and committed, colleagues who share your ambition to create outstanding customer experiences. Your work will be ambitious and full of opportunities for growth. Variety and challenge will be part of your daily routines.
Why should you join Versuni (Formerly, Philips Domestic Appliances)?
Versuni’s (Formerly, Philips’ Domestic Appliances) business is a global leader with EUR 2.3 billion in sales in 2019 in kitchen appliances, coffee, garment care and home care appliances, with successful products such as the Airfryer, Perfect Care Steam Generators, Automatic Coffee Machines with LatteGo and SpeedPro Max Aqua vacuum cleaner, and many more that are used by millions of people every day across the world.
Our Purpose
We help people Turn Houses into Homes
At Versuni, we improve the lives of people at home through meaningful innovation.
Our products and services help you to lead healthier and happier lives every day. We enable people to transform their houses into homes, where they can connect and take care of each other.
We create sustainable solutions; we make conscious choices caring for people’s homes and our planet.
We are a best place to work for people who share our passion and DAre to pursue our purpose, we create the team as diverse as the homes we care for.
We DAre to be more than a company of innovation; we want to become a company of inspiration.
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