Media & PR Executive

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a **Media & PR Executive** to join our Enabling Functions team to work in **Canary Wharf, London.**

**Role Purpose**:

- To create, plan, deliver and measure effective and engaging communications for target audiences that drive value and reputation for the business.

**Interfaces**:

- This role involves representing Balfour Beatty, influencing stakeholders and audiences and working with a broad range of people including front line workers to Board members, suppliers who support the department, and external stakeholders ranging from the media, public, client organisations and industry groups.

**What you'll be doing**
As a **Media & PR Executive **you will be:

- Responding efficiently and effectively to media enquiries to support the delivery of a first-class press office service;
- Providing out of hours press office cover on a rotational basis;
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with target media;
- Supporting the business at times of intense scrutiny including major incidents or crises;
- Identifying, producing, editing and issuing timely news releases bothto media and on the corporate website, defining key messaging, producing web copy, scripts, Q & A and response statements and ensuring that all content is on brand, accurate, truthful and not open to misinterpretation;
- Posting Regulatory News Service announcements to the London Stock Exchange;
- Identifying opportunities for, supporting the delivery of and attendance at media briefings, media interviews, journalist site visits and industry events;
- Provide guidance to Work Winning on effective media engagement to support key strategic bids. Define and deliver media outputs within the supporting communications plans;
- Implementing, managing and measuring PR plans and campaigns against business units, projects and key Group themes;
- Reporting on effectiveness and approaches to media relations to a wide range of internal stakeholders;
- Ensuring all appropriate approvals are in place for all media relations activity;
- Management of media monitoring provision and compliance;
- Managing and updating media & PR forward planners and communications trackers;
- Updating media distribution lists;
- Representing Balfour Beatty at industry functions;
- Complying with company policies and guidelines;
- Working effectively with suppliers and client organisations;
- Supporting colleagues in the wider communications team and across the Group including up to Executive leadership level

**Who we're looking for** Personal Qualities and Experience**:

- Proven press office experience, ideally with relevant sector experience;
- Ability to work in a high pressured environment, multitask and prioritise several tasks and projects;
- Strong planning and research skills;
- Good networking and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent copy writing skills to produce engaging, accurate content for diverse audiences;
- Effective team player;
- Good media contacts and the confidence to build new ones;
- Creativity in approach and understanding of impactful PR opportunities
- CIPR qualification desirable.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions;developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**
Balfour Beatty’s Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted and Safe.

We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering). Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.

Job Reference: BBUK05051

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