Speechwriter

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom HSBC Full time

If you’re looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join HSBC and experience the possibilities. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

We’re looking for a Speechwriter to research and write compelling briefing notes, speeches, scripts and social media posts for the Group Chief Executive and Group Chairman. This means you will help to advance HSBC’s strategic and commercial objectives, while enhancing the its reputation with target audiences.

As a HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role, you will:

- Work with the Head of Executive Communications to design, lead and implement an external communications plan for the Group Chief Executive and Group Chairman.
- Work with the Head of Executive Communications, speakers, event organizers, Group Communications and Brand colleagues, and business lines and functions to research, craft and deliver high quality, timely written communications products to their completion - from agreeing the parameters of external speaking roles, to managing approvals to appropriate timescales, to producing the final materials for delivery and post-event promotion.
- Contribute to the drafting of materials for corporate events, including materials for quarterly financial results, the Annual General Meeting and Informal Shareholders Meeting, and investor events.
- Provide input and guidance to help develop messaging on a range of internal and external topics.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
Essential:

- A highly experienced Writer - able to demonstrate a portfolio of suitable written materials in support of senior executives or officials within the corporate or public arenas
- Track record of advising and interacting with C-suite executives and Board members
- Expert knowledge, experience and evidence of writing speeches, briefings, social media posts, and other communications collateral for senior executives or officials to a very high standard
- Demonstrable understanding of the needs of senior leaders in undertaking communications activities and an ability to both anticipate those needs in advance and work with stakeholders to ensure they are met
- Ability to understand business issues and make the complex simple, turning information and data into compelling communications.
- Experience in developing thought leadership
- Experience of working in a complex, international matrix organisation and diverse culture.
- Breadth of knowledge of financial services, geopolitics and macroeconomic trends.

The base location for this role is London/Hybrid.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

Telephone: +44 2078328500.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions. HSBC has processes in place to avoid nepotism. This means we will avoid circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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