External Communications Manager

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago

Andover, United Kingdom Simplyhealth Full time

About The Role

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives? Do you want to be part of a company that is striving to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK? At Simplyhealth, our affordable health plans support 2 million customers, providing them the opportunity to attend routine dental treatments, visit the optician, have therapies such as physio, access a GP quickly, and more.

We’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective for working people. We’ve embarked on a transformation to deliver this ambitious goal. With a trusted brand and a strong heritage in healthcare, we think we’re uniquely placed to help change the landscape of healthcare in the UK for the better.

About the role:As External Communications Manager, you’ll work across press, social media and wider content for Simplyhealth and its dental business, Denplan.From helping set the strategy, through to ensuring the delivery of first-rate press campaigns that set the agenda at a national level, you’ll be working in a small but mighty team to deliver our external communications. 

It's a varied role and your days will involve delivering exciting new media campaigns; developing and growing our social media and thought leadership capabilities; and leading public affairs work for Denplan with our public affairs agency. You’ll manage a press agency and work collaboratively with the wider Marketing team, plus many other internal and external stakeholders including Executive Leadership, our Clinical Team and our charitable partners.

Reporting into the Head of Communications, you’ll help define and lead a multi-channel external communications strategy for the Simplyhealth group. Through this, you’ll support our purpose whilst simultaneously driving growth and building our reputation and impact. You’ll also line manage the Communications Executive that works across internal and external communications; providing professional development, coaching and support.

About You

We’d love to hear from you if you thrive working at pace; multi-tasking; and will enjoy working with a range of stakeholders that includes internal teams, journalists, health experts and government.

To be considered, you’ll need to have: 

Experience of shaping and delivering a multi-channel communications strategy; defining objectives, plans and goals to meet business needs and stakeholder ambitions. Excellent communication skills – particularly impeccable writing skills with the ability to be a strong storyteller.  A strong understanding of media relations, with experience of working in a media relations team or in a journalistic capacity  A robust knowledge and experience of developing and leading press campaigns, plus creating thought leadership content for different audiences. Demonstrable experience of leading activity that can meet the needs of multiple stakeholder groups.  An excellent working knowledge of public relations, thought leadership, social media and crisis communications.  Experience of agency management  Strong stakeholder management skills, experience working at senior levels (C-suite) within a multi-stakeholder environment.

Ideally you might also have:

Experience in fast-paced B2B and B2C environments Experience of line management, providing guidance, support and development What’s in it for you?As well as a competitive salary, our benefits include a discretionary annual bonus, generous pension, 36 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days), a flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers, pet insurance and more), a Simplyhealth Cash plan or Dental plan, an employee wellbeing programme, shopping discounts and 3 volunteering days

We have a head office in Hampshire, but depending on your role, you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more. You might know it as flexible or hybrid working, for us it’s just another day living our best lives 

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