External Communications Manager

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Company Description

Job Description

External Communications Manager

Manchester, UK

Are you an experienced communications and marketing professional, with strong content and PR expertise? Can you support our external communications and profile efforts across our newly formed region covering Western Europe and APAC ensuring local impact of our global campaigns and thought leadership? Would you like to be part of a leading global architecture, engineering and consultancy company?

If this sounds like you, or you're curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our global Communication & Marketing function as our External Communications Manager for Western Europe and APAC, communicating how Ramboll helps clients realise their goals, whilst navigating the transition to a more sustainable future.

Your new role

As our External Communications Manager, you will support our overall ambition to become the partner for sustainable change for our clients and stakeholders. You will play a vital role in ensuring our global campaigns and priority topic agendas land with impact across our region. Topics include for example the green energy transition, sustainable transport and buildings, resilient societies and biodiversity. You will be responsible for planning and implementing comprehensive content strategies (online and offline) and developing localisation to ensure our campaigns and topics resonate with local audiences. You will also play an integral role in the creation of core content with the support of the regional team (such as media releases, local value propositions and messaging, curating event formats etc.) to support implementation. By building strong relationships with key leaders in the business, relevant to the campaigns and agendas, you will gain excellent insight to our clients most pressing agendas to ensure our business delivers an end-to-end Marketing and Sales effort. You will also work with your colleagues in the communications and marketing regional team to finalise plans, deliver the execution, and reporting to ensure we continually improve the effectiveness of our delivery.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• To play a leading role in the localisation of our global campaigns and initiatives.
• To curate localised content that resonates in the region's geographies (UK and Ireland, Germany and Asia Pacific)
• To plan and execute comprehensive localised channel strategies for high-profile external impact of our campaigns and agendas, ensuring compliance.
• Explore client engagement opportunities to support work-winning efforts.
• Build solid stakeholder relationships with relevant client-facing stakeholders to support an end-to-end marketing and sales effort.
• Develop an excellent understanding of relevant key accounts and clients to inform our content strategies and ensure alignment with our clients' key agendas
• Work closely with your communications and marketing colleagues in the region (totalling 15), including sparring with the head of comms for each geography, to agree plans and to deliver on them.
• Work closely with global marketing teams as relevant in the early curation of our campaigns to provide local market insights.
• Support research as required to understand preferences and behaviours of the regional audience and use insights to inform content strategies.
• Support the continual improvements of our campaign and content performance.
• Work closely with global marketing teams to ensure consistency and alignment with overall brand messaging and objectives.

About you

• Proven experience of planning and delivering external initiatives/campaigns/thought leadership across the channel mix, both online and offline
• Exceptional content writing and communications skills
• Able to take complex agenda's and translate them into effective communications that resonate with the audience
• Proactive, with an ambitious mindset, willing to explore new digital media opportunities and client engagement formats to advance the impact of our efforts and achieve greater brand profile
• Collaborative and inclusive to support positive team culture where we achieve together
• Relevant experience and or educational background in PR, communication, marketing or equivalent qualification
• Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry is preferred
• Experience of working in a complex matrix organisation will also be beneficial
• Manchester based

What we can offer you

• Commitment to your development
• Support of colleagues as we collectively deliver on our global communications and marketing priorities
• A culture that welcomes you as the unique person you are
• Inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
• Flexible and hybrid working environment
• Community of international, highly skilled colleagues

Ready to join us?

Please submit your application with your up-to-date CV.

Deadline: 21 March

Thank you for taking the time to apply! We look forward to receiving your application.

Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company with 18,000 employees. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark in 1945, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that's where we start - and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. As a globally leading engineering, environmental and sustainability consultancy Ramboll has experts delivering innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Energy, Water, Environment & Health, Landscape & Architecture, and Management Consulting.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. At Ramboll, we offer flexibility as part of our positive and inclusive approach to work. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com with such requests.