Head of Group Corporate Media and Issues - London, United Kingdom - Legal & General Investment Management

Legal & General Investment Management

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Reference

VN26348Role Type
PermanentLocation
LondonSalary

- £Competitive + Bonus + 12% Car AllowanceClosing Date

31 August 2023Your role at a glance
Our Corporate Affairs function is accountable for developing and driving Legal & General's brand profile and reputation, engaging across audiences to increase understanding, build advocacy and drive delivery of our purpose and business goals.

Reporting to the Group Corporate Affairs Director, the Head of Group Corporate Media and Issues leads the development of our media relations and issues management strategy, working alongside Group public affairs, policy, IR, comms, sustainability and divisional colleagues to nurture our relationships, spot opportunities to build reputation, and proactively manage emerging issues.

What you'll be doing

Being a key contributor to developing and delivering our Group Corporate Affairs strategy, working with Group and divisional colleagues, with specific accountability for evolving our Group / corporate media relations strategy to support business objectives, aligning to brand, public affairs, content and employee communications strategies to ensure coherence across audiences.

Maintaining strong relationships with business, industry and sector media, leading interactions around key corporate moments, identifying proactive opportunities for L&G to contribute to debates, and supporting sound reactive issues management.

Owning our Group Issues Map, working with colleagues to shape our strategic positioning and communications approach to developing trends and issues in our external environment and internally.

Defining and driving our senior leader profile strategy, group thought leadership campaigns and research programmes to position L&G effectively in debates that matter to our customers, clients and employees, and support business goals.

Partnering with Brand, Employer Reputation, Sustainability, and other Group functional colleagues to build media and communications programmes that support their goals.

Identifying and support external platform opportunities, developing briefings, speaking notes and drafting articles on behalf of senior leaders.

Driving continuous improvement of Group wide processes, measurement and evaluation and information sharing to strengthen cross divisional planning, collaboration and strong internal and external relationships.

What we're looking for

Knowledge:

Understanding of L&G strategy and direction
Awareness and understanding of the financial services sector and key debates impacting L&G's business
Understanding of evolving media landscape, breadth and depth of media relationships
Communications and campaigning strategy
Strong writing and storytelling skills
Public affairs / policy awareness desirable

Experience:

Previous experience working in complex regulated organisations, ideally in FS
Media relations and issues management
Corporate / financial media and communications
Narrative and campaign strategy development
Ability to interact with individuals across the organisation and external partners and prioritise varied workload
International experience desirable

Benefits:

When you commit to Legal & General, we'll commit to you too. That means we'll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you'll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 30 days' holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection.

You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice.

We're also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You'll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.

And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.