About our Client

Our client is the business critical technology partner for the world’s most successful organizations. As a global leader in Business Transformation, they provide strategic business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients leverage technology and create impactful and measurable business value for every IT investment. 

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Job Title

 Manager of Public Relations

 Location

New York, NY

 Responsibilities

This role reports to the head of PR for the Americas for a multi-billion dollar global consulting firm headquartered outside of the US.  As part of a 2 person in-house team in the Americas managing a large Americas PR agency team and supporting 8 business units, the corporate/business press PR program and PR for the company’s corporate social responsibility program, the specific responsibilities of this role can be tailored to the strengths and areas of expertise of the successful candidate. 

Because you will be one of a 2 person in-house PR team supported by a large PR agency team this is a great opportunity to step into this high-visibility role!

Responsibilities can include:

• Working with the PR agency to develop and implement business and trade press PR plans
• Staffing business and trade press interviews
• Conducting media tours both with reporters and with the publishers and editors and chiefs of target publications
• Developing and implementing social media strategies, PR plans for conferences, speaking opportunities and other areas of cross-channel communication
• Rationalizing PR agency time versus results
• Developing and implementing thought leadership PR campaigns
• Placing whitepapers and case studies in trade and business journals
• Providing PR counsel to the business units
• Making your mark in the company and developing and implementing new PR programs and working directly with the marketing heads to help them best reach their goals
• Create news – look at our business and identify and package stories for the press

Please Note: This description does not cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.

Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent speaking, listening and writing skills
• Exceptional analytic skills and attention to detail
• Ability to mine for and package news
• Ability to look at the spectrum of available press coverage and determine what coverage the company should pursue
• Ability to manage a large PR agency spend and team
• Excellent decision making ability – ability to focus a PR program and direct an external agency and counsel internal marketing managers on which PR activities would best meet the company’s goals and to formulate annual PR plans supporting those goals
• 6+ years of technology PR at an agency or in-house corporate
• Position is based in NYC Metro and can be based out of Manhattan or Bridgewater, NJ
• Ability to staff interview from NYC area
• Travel 10-25%
• Have a successful track record of significant accomplishments, and ideally innovation and execution within at IT Consulting firm in PR as well as a level of expertise with national business press and/or IT enterprise computing vertical trade press

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