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We will be closed from the 24th December 2020 and will reopen on the 4th January 2021. Wishing you happiness and cheer this festive season and a wonderful New Year. Best wishes from VMAGROUP

Andrew Harvey, CEO of VMAGROUP interviews Jennifer Sproul, CEO of the Institute of Internal Communication, on the impact on Covid-19 on internal communications for IC Space. *********** VMAGROUP is a leading international interim and permanent communications, digital and marketing recruitment and executive search specialist. Specialist practices cover corporate communication...

This webinar explores what it's like starting a new interim communications or marketing project during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our three guest speakers share: how the onboarding process differed,  how to build effective stakeholder relationships  how to stand out as a value creator when working remotely and more. VMAGROUP’s Andrew Harvey (CEO) and Matt Gibbs (Managing Consult...

VMAGROUP has been a recruitment partner for the communications industry for over 40 years; specialising in corporate communications and consumer communications across all industry sectors.   In the last 10 years, VMAGROUP has reached further into marketing and digital recruitment and in that time so many challenges have been faced; recessions have been navigated, downturns s...

Communications and marketing teams have been working at an incredible pace over the last 6 months, and even the most experienced leaders have been tested to their very limits by the Covid-19 crisis.  The early autumn brought with it the hope that, with children returning to school, working life might return to a version of normal and some of us even started to make some atte...

If you’re a communicator or marketer, you have most likely written about mental health and its importance. You may have shared mental health resources, run internal or external surveys to assess the mental health of your stakeholders, run self-care campaigns, or have written articles on “How to take care of your mental health during lockdown”. The constant worry to ensure th...

This webinar explores the findings in our latest report Into Communications: The CEO Perspective. The report explores CEO thinking on communications and the role of the contemporary communications function.  The webinar covers topics found in the report including: what in-demand skills are required from communicators  what role CEOs expect their communications leaders to pla...

Sophie Collins is a Team Lead at VMAGROUP focusing on Communications permanent recruitment and executive search in London and the South. It would be an understatement to say that this year has been challenging, especially for those who have been searching for their next communications, marketing or digital role. After being made furloughed and redundant, many communicators h...

In the second half of 2019, we undertook research for our annual Inside Insight report. The report focuses on strategy, remuneration, budget, training and recruitment within the internal communications industry across all sectors. Before we could release our report, Covid-19 hit and impacted the working world and everything around it. The rapid changes that Covid-19 brought ...

September has marked the return to the office for many communications and marketing professionals around the UK. From speaking to comms and marketing leaders on our Advisory Board calls, it’s clear that many want to get back to business as usual, instead of solely focusing on Covid communications. With the resurgence of Brexit, team restructuring, and business goals to achie...