The Opportunity
Edelman’s office in
Johannesburg has an incredible opportunity for a Head of Corporate
Reputation to lead a team spanning Johannesburg and Nairobi focused on
cutting-edge integrated corporate reputation and communications
campaigns on behalf of corporations such as DP World, Heineken,
Nissan, and Hilton and governments. We're looking for a charismatic
and driven professional who can provide expert client counsel, while
inspiring and leading teams to build culture, up-level client work,
expand our collective capability, and drive growth.
This is a
collaborative, supportive environment and at its core, Edelman is an
entrepreneurial agency. You will work with your Corporate Reputation
colleagues in Africa, EMEA, and globally, and in close partnership
with your peers across the agency including our Brand, Health,
Digital, and Creative teams.
The scope of the role will consist
of three key areas: - Client Account Work
- New
Business and Marketing Efforts
- Practice Management, Culture,
and People Leadership
Client account work:
- Provide solutions to help our clients across a range of
industries navigate their most pressing reputational issues
- Demonstrate superior client management and be a trusted
advisor by building relationships with C-level clients
- Lead
large scale, highly visible client work, managing stakeholder
engagement, thought leadership, executive visibility, newsroom, and
traditional media relations programs to exceed expectations
- Lead operational and financial performance of account teams,
ensuring quality work, effective processes, and that client requests
are handled in a timely and strategic fashion
- Demonstrate
advanced writing skills and supervise writing of others
- Be a
consumer of news – help identify media trends/interests, what “works”
with top media
New business and marketing efforts:
- Drive organic and new business development, RFP responses,
and client acquisitions
- Serve as an external Edelman
ambassador to ensure a robust new business pipeline by pursuing
opportunities with potential new clients
Practice
management, culture, and people leadership: - Serve as a key
partner and leader within the executive team of Africa to inspire,
design and implement localized strategies that support Edelman’s
larger vision in Africa, EMEA, and globally
- Inspire a high
functioning and collaborative team to work across practices/sectors
including Brand, Health, Digital, and Creative
- Lead staff by
mentoring, motivating, coaching, consistently providing feedback,
holding them accountable and conducting their reviews and overseeing
their professional development
- Retain and recruit top-notch
talent
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a diverse practice with an
eye towards skills development, collaboration, and inclusion
- Hold both team and self-accountable for highest level of
performance and ethics.
About you: - Minimum
of 12 years’ experience practicing corporate communications in an
agency, consulting, or in-house setting
- Have a demonstrated
history of leading profitable programs that have advanced client
business goals and enabled clients to draw on best practice corporate
reputation capabilities i.e. Issues & Crisis, Executive Positioning,
Media, Sustainability
- Proven and respected thought and
business leader
- Ability to effectively prioritize and solve
complex problems while making decisions with entrepreneurial mindset
- Proven ability to grow business, and love to pitch, present,
and win new business
- Deep and trusted relationships with key
industry stakeholders
- Have strong contacts and working
relationships with local and global news media
- Demonstrate
advanced writing, editing, and presentation-development skills;
project management skills; and consultative skills (including
effective questioning, critical thinking, client management and
communication methodology application)
- Able to manage client
program budgets and internal resources
- Experienced in
effectively influencing, managing, and developing diverse teams
- Are a superb people manager; enjoy coaching and mentoring
junior staff
- Bring a commitment to advancing the vision of
the Edelman Corporate practice both internally and externally
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Edelman is a global communications firm that
partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and
protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60
offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the
confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their
stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR;
Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital
Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.
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