Media and Reputation Strategist

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom National Grid Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Media and Reputation Strategist to join our Corporate Affairs team at National Grid. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining National Grid's reputation and enhancing the company's media profile.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with colleagues in media teams across National Grid to source and capitalize on proactive media opportunities.
  • Manage all reactive media handling, including horizon scanning, issues management, and taking ownership for lines to take/key messages.
  • Build National Grid's reputation and influence key stakeholders externally through strategic corporate campaigns.
  • Monitor and measure National Grid's external media successes on issues and campaigns and help identify lessons learned.
  • Work across the business to proactively develop and/or shape media lines and in line with overall company narrative and advising the wider business on the style, tone, and content of messaging to maximize impact.
  • Work with the NGV Corporate Affairs team to proactively advise senior leaders on political intelligence and insight that will impact the business to support business development.
  • Work effectively within a highly matrixed environment with reporting lines into the NGV business units and the National Grid Corporate Affairs team.
  • Maintain a network of external contacts including journalists and other stakeholders to promote company interests and proactively share intelligence from this activity back into the business.
  • Support the delivery of corporate strategic campaigns, working with Corporate Communications & Brand tailoring message development and stakeholder mapping and engagement.
  • Contribute to running of the Corporate Affairs function, supporting corporate affairs activity grid, fully utilizing full suite of project and stakeholder management tools, ensuring that duplication and overlap of activities with other parts of the function are minimized.
  • Anticipate and identify current and future strategic issues and trends of commercial interest, working closely with the wider Corporate Affairs, Business Development, IR, and Corporate Strategy teams, and proactively provide this insight and intelligence to senior leaders, to help shape business commercial decisions.

Requirements

  • Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (business, communication, policy), with demonstrable professional development.
  • Track record of building and maintaining positive and constructive relationships with journalists of different types.
  • Proven experience of successful campaigning at a senior level within a regulated, multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Desirable experience and knowledge of the key external industry and non-industry stakeholders which relate to and impact on the energy sector (governmental, regulatory, NGOs, communities, agencies, industry bodies etc.).
  • Experience of successfully working and influencing internal stakeholders in a large complex organization, working in a collaborative manner to plan and deliver integrated campaigns.
  • Able to prioritize and manage competing issues, working with and through others – maintaining high and consistent standards and alignment with National Grid, working at pace and with minimal guidance.
  • Understanding of the role of digital in delivering campaigns, providing intelligence and insights, anticipating, identifying, and managing issues and risks and their interconnections and assessing outcomes and impacts.
  • Highly organized and strong attention to detail.
  • Results-oriented, able to manage timely delivery in a challenging environment, and able to deal with rapid change, complexity, and ambiguity.
  • Ability to deliver results through others. Strategic thinker with ability to contribute to key communications and policy decisions by interpreting internal and external trends and changes.

What We Offer

  • Up to £72,000 dependent on experience.
  • Plus: Up to 15% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance).
  • 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition.
  • The option to buy additional or sell holiday days every year.
  • A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
  • Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
  • Life Insurance 10 x base salary.
  • Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
  • Access to apps which support health, fitness, and wellbeing.

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