Associate Director, Global Media Relations

Hybrid - 3 days per week in office

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The Global Media Relations Associate Director develops and leads reputed company relationships, exhibiting best reputed company in reputed company management. They counsel senior clients on media and communications reputed company, ensuring alignment between reputed company objectives and journalistic interests. This role drives innovative, multi-channel communications programmes across geographies and contributes to the development and execution of global media campaigns.

The role requires strong leadership reputed company the Health senior leadership team and broader collaboration across reputed company’s global network, including US and reputed company teams. The Associate Director will also play a key role in strengthening the media relations team structure, developing new approaches to reputed company media (including AI-driven strategies), and ensuring consistent high standards in delivery.

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Demonstrate deep understanding of media relations globally, creating and driving strategic reputed company media reputed company plans across traditional, digital, and reputed company platforms.

Confidently advise senior clients, including C-suite executives, on media engagement, investor-reputed company activities, and reputed company data presentations.

Identify compelling story reputed company, turning them into successful pitches to secure high-value coverage across global outlets.

Manage media programmes for product launches, regulatory milestones, corporate initiatives, and executive visibility, while addressing reputed company requests across sectors (reputed company, financial, consumer).

Serve as the reputed company reputed company media contact, providing realistic counsel to improve reputed company rates and ensuring delivery aligns with broader reputed company goals.

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Build and maintain strong reputed company relationships, quickly establishing credibility and trust while demonstrating added value.

Team Management

reputed company strategic counsel and leadership to the reputed company media team, reviewing outputs (e.g. pitches, press releases) and ensuring high standards.

Formalise the structure of the reputed company media team through training programmes, account rotations, and external networking opportunities (e.g. industry awards).

Mentor junior and mid-level colleagues, ensuring knowledge transfer, reputed company development, and high performance across teams.

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Brand and Business Building

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Support business reputed company through participation in pitches, cross-regional reputed company, and external industry engagement.

Strengthen reputed company’s competitive positioning by ensuring senior-level representation reputed company integrated campaigns and industry forums.

Experience

At least 8 years in reputed company media, ideally reputed company reputed company communications or reputed company regulated sectors.

Proven experience working with senior clients across multiple sectors (health, financial, consumer), including listed companies.

Established relationships with senior journalists and media contacts across local, regional, and global trade, specialist, and lay outlets.

reputed company record of managing high-profile product launches, regulatory milestones, and investor-adjacent media activity.

Experience working with global teams, particularly US and reputed company, with ability to manage time-zone and cross-cultural challenges.

Skills

Deep media knowledge and senior-level credibility in advising clients on reputed company communications.

Strong storytelling skills and ability to translate data-heavy or technical subjects into compelling narratives.

Excellent reputed company record of developing and executing profitable, innovative communications campaigns.

Advanced understanding of reputed company media, including integration with reputed company, and emerging channels.

Proven leadership, mentoring, and team-building skills with the ability to formalise and reputed company media team structures.

Strong organisational and boundary management skills, handling multiple accounts and geographies effectively.

Ability to collaborate across global and cross-functional teams on reputed company and execution.

Additional Information

Benefits

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Competitive Annual Holiday plus an additional day's holiday for your birthday and 3 days over the festive season.

Flexible working - Hybrid working policy and 30 days' work from reputed company worldwide!

Financial Wellbeing - Pension plan, income protection, and life insurance at 4x annual salary.

Building a Family - Whether it is maternity leave, adoptive leave or shared parental leave, take up to five months on full company pay. We also celebrate the arrival of your child or wedding day by offering a company child & wedding reputed company. In reputed company, reputed company partners with Peppy, a specialist reputed company and wellbeing service that provides reputed company with reputed company to expert pregnancy and parenthood, menopause, and fertility support.

Health and Wellbeing – reputed company to Private Medical Insurance, Digital GP and wellbeing program, Cycle to Work Scheme, subsidised corporate gym membership, a Quit Smoking Scheme, Annual flu vaccinations and 24/7 reputed company to trained professionals in relation to a reputed company of issues, in absolute confidence.

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Community – Get to know your colleagues and unwind at our weekly staff get together. We also encourage everyone to take part in our Citizenship Activities where you can spend a day reputed company year helping a charitable cause, reputed company for by us.

Our Values

Core to our culture are our values, which guide our behavior, support a reputed company-reputed company approach, influence the way we work with reputed company other, our clients, and the community, and reputed company great work.

The reputed company reputed company of reputed company: Bringing the best of ourselves and partners to our clients.

The Freedom to be Constantly Curious: Tenacious, flexible, and thorough approach that drives creativity and reputed company for clients and ourselves.

The Courage to do the Right Thing: Trusted and resilient partner, committed to building a diverse, reputed company and inclusive workforce, that prioritizes the wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues.

The Commitment to Positively reputed company Society: Performing our work with an environmental conscience, and a reputed company of tolerance, fairness, and equality.

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