Communications Specialist in United States

Our Client, a Banking and Financial Services company, is looking for a Communications Specialist for their Remote location. Responsibilities:

• Cultivate stakeholder relationships across functional areas, identifying key areas of opportunity where communications can support business objectives.

• Oversee strategic external communications planning and earned media campaign management.

• Partner with regional communications colleagues to shape and implement communications strategy in priority markets.

• Manage and direct relationships with US PR agency.

• Identify and leverage property and/or macro-economic trends to inform and position appropriate business narratives, and create communications plans to amplify these narratives.

• Discern and capitalize on creative news angles.

• Establish and nurture relationships with media targets, both traditional and non-traditional.

• Plan and execute issues response and crisis communication strategies as needed.

• Serve as a spokesperson for PGIM.

• Identify new media spokespeople, facilitate media training, and support media engagement through prep sessions, staffing, post-engagement feedback.

• Track and report out key metrics, demonstrating the value communications provides in support of business objectives.

  Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in any field of academic rigor.

• 8+ years of communications experience; corporate and agency backgrounds beneficial; asset management or financial services experience a must.

• Entrepreneurial and action-oriented.

• Proven ability to partner and deliver strategic business value while also able to work independently.

• Understands the organization’s internal and external business environments, including how it delivers value to customers, the market it operates in, and how its separate functions work together.

• Executive presence; comfortable providing strategic counsel to senior executives.

• Strong project management skills with the ability to drive processes, integrate concepts and lead through influence.

• Existing relationships with key journalists and capable of establishing new relationships.

• Impeccable writing and editing skills.

• Strong news judgement.

• Experience of the real estate investment and/or asset management industry; knowledge of financial markets and macroeconomic forces.

• Sees connections that others do not, successfully applies ideas drawn from seemingly unrelated contexts, and generates a wide array of useful solutions to solve problems.

• Understanding of how to operate within organizations of scale and in a highly matrixed environment.

• Flexible writing skills – from press releases, to awards submissions and bylines/op eds.

• Effectively persuades others, remains diplomatic in difficult situations, and leverages a large network of relationships for the good of the business.

• Data-oriented, leveraging key metrics to identify new opportunities.

  Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits

• Referral Program

• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities

  As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.