Job Description
I have a Marketing & Communications - External Communications position with a leading international investment banking company! Please take a look and let me know if you'd be interested in hearing more about it.
4 month assignment Location: NY / NJ Rate $1010/day W2
Business Overview: The Marketing and Communications group handles all marketing and communications in the Americas. The various functions of this group include corporate events, sponsorships, and external and internal communications.
Candidate Success Factors: Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
- Results and Impact
- Able to influence peers and team.
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
- Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
- Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
- Leadership and Collaboration:
- Creates trust with colleagues.
- Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus:
- Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
- Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
- Compliance Culture and Conduct:
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
Responsibilities: - Promotes via print, broadcast, radio and podcasts, and builds relationships with reporters in these areas
- Arranges and coordinates interviews for key spokespeople with TV and streaming news channels in North America and other locations as needed, a strength in the US
- Provides assistance / help to press relations or communications managers in Brazil, Hispanic Latam, and Canada as well as international offices
- Writes and distributes press releases and media communiques for Bank appointments, deals and other news
- Organizes meetings with business line executives and their counterparties at key financial media
- Tracks editorial calendars to ensure inclusion in relevant articles for target publications
- Assists in managing awards process in the US
- Assists in media training for executives, business managers, research teams economists and analysts
- Complies with all internal and external rules and regulations
- Monitors and distributes on a daily basis all financial news regarding the firm and its subsidiaries
- Builds and maintains a media list of key contacts in their business lines
- Maintains contracts and renewals for Providers
- Covers for the Director and colleague when needed
- Helps to manage projects with colleague especially reports and databases
- Works on ad hoc projects as needed
- Business line responsibility TBD
Minimum Required Qualifications: - 6 (+) years' experience in media relations, preferably in the buy-side or sell-side
- Excellent network and relationships with the media
- Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to negotiate and influence others both internally and externally, as well as arrange meetings with Spokespeople and press
- Project management experience
- Attention to detail
- Demonstrates an ability to be innovative and a strategic thinker
- Able to:
- Anticipate the impact of various situations and transactions and proactively handle
- Work efficiently in a fast paced and challenging environment
- Network transversally across the organization as required and maintain high standards of professionalism in all dealings with team members and external clients
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well independently and within a team
- Technical: Microsoft Word; Power Point; Excel; social media; news retrieval systems
Apply today!
Cindy Wing Lenmar Consulting, Inc.
1440 Plaza Five
Harborside Financial Center
Jersey City, NJ 07311
T: 201.946.1777 ext. 4010
cwing@LenmarIT.com
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