Head of PR and Communications

Head of PR & Communications, ICIS

12 months fixed term contract

About the Business: At ICIS, our mission is to optimize the world’s resources. We help companies make strategic, sustainable decisions by bringing transparency to markets across the world. We create a comprehensive view of commodities markets, providing companies with the data and intelligence to successfully navigate across global value chains every day. Our customers benefit from instant access to price assessments, reports and forecasts, a dedicated news channel and supply and demand data. You can learn more about ICIS at the link at: https://www.icis.com/explore

About our Team: Our marketing team is a strategic engine for driving business growth and transformation. We align closely with sales, customer-facing teams, strategy, and product/UX to ensure seamless collaboration and impactful outcomes. Focused on delivering measurable results, we lead initiatives that accelerate marketing innovation and enable the organisation to adapt to changing market dynamics. With a clear commitment to business excellence, our work drives strategic change, strengthens customer engagement, and positions the company for sustained success.

About the Role: We have an exciting opportunity for a senior leader to join our diverse and talented marketing community at ICIS, and to play a pivotal role in supporting the business to achieve its commercial ambitions. The Head of PR and Communications will manage ICIS’ global media relations, employee engagement and brand strategy and implementation. Which means this exceptional leader is responsible for the strategic development and direction of ICIS’ global brand to increase brand awareness and reputation across key markets. We are looking for a PR professional to lead the development and delivery of ICIS’ global media strategy and corporate narrative and support the delivery of regional media engagement across EMEA, Americas and APAC. Results will be geared towards building positive media coverage of the company’s market expertise and capabilities across tier one and trade media, including broadcast, radio and increasingly podcasts. The Head of PR & Communications also manages ICIS’ internal communications strategy, ensuring employee engagement is at the forefront of business priorities for all functions.

The highly visible nature of the function, and the often-sensitive content involved, means that the Head of PR & Communications is required to demonstrate exemplary personal judgement and initiative while working as part of a close-knit and high-performing team.

Responsibilities:

• Strategically results-oriented thinker focused on generating tier-one media and select trade media attention in support of ICIS’ business objectives

• Managing and developing solid media relations with key journalists, whilst managing PR agencies in EMEA and US

• Managing the proactive identifying of media hooks and/or exploring media stories working with market experts to brainstorm and develop media pitches

• Having the ability to shape, identify and distil key media messages from editorial content and marketing materials to position ICIS as a thought leader in chemical, energy and sustainability markets

• Having the ability to use and consider different channels and storytelling techniques to build a strong internal culture and can understand cultural differences when developing and considering employee engagement campaigns

• Forecasting and budget management. Creating regional annual budget proposals, with supporting justification, on-going oversight, tracking, accountability and reporting.

• Measuring of PR sentiment & ROI. Ensure all PR activities are monitored and measured for their effectiveness. Utilise data and insights to drive performance and ROI.

Requirements

• Extensive regional PR marketing experience with demonstrable experience in building and executing media engagement strategies that positively impacts building brand awareness and salience

• Can effectively work with various stakeholders to develop media pitches and formulate a calendar of activity anticipating media hooks where possible

• Excellent writing and editing skills for audiences ranging from general to business to technical - including news releases, talking points, Q&As, bylines, etc.

• Outstanding communicator and collaborator, excellent written skills with the ability to present at a senior leadership level

• Proven experience to influence and inspire at all levels with excellent relationship building skills, creating conditions to build confident, effective teams, able to motivate, inspire and develop team members

• Passionate about building and inspiring engaged and empowered teams, actively shaping and supporting the business’ people strategy

• Proven ability to be an adaptive strategic leader with critical thinking skills alongside a creative flair and a curious mindset.

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