Description:
Our client an agribusiness firm specializing in the cultivation, production and trading of animal feed and human food commodities is looking for a Communications Manager.
Job Location: Abu Dhabi
Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, or any other relevant field
- 10+ years of corporate communication experience or equivalent in a challenging media environment focused on Events, Brand, Marketing, Internal/ External communication, and Digital Communications.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work in a dynamic fast paced, diverse environment.
- Ability to persuade and influence decision makers to implement initiatives
- Capability to manage assigned budgets accordingly
- Extremely organized, highly disciplined and can manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop Communications strategy for both free and paid media in line with the overall company strategy.
- Develop targeted trade shows, publications, events, and awards to support the company brand, moto and positioning.
- Develop budgets that optimize communications spend for maximum impact in line with overall plans.
- Use existing themes and upcoming activities to develop themes/topics that support strategic objectives.
- Execute and implement communications strategy through leadership, media relations, content development, message creation and strategic communications.
- Develop/update key messages in alignment with the new direction and marketing activities.
- Create strategic communication initiatives to achieve overall event targets.
- Draft and edit news releases, as well as support the distribution via company’s PR/communications agency & wider communications team.
- Coordinate with stakeholders’, communications agencies on joint initiatives to ensure company messaging/objectives are consistently met and implemented.
- Ensure consistency in content created and delivered in alignment with key messages.
- Support content development, including but not limited to: brochures, presentations, invitations and thank you letters, emails, fact sheets, internal comms, press releases, speeches, talking points and newsletters.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement and implementation of policies and procedures of different functions covering all areas of communications so that all relevant requirements and standards are fulfilled.