Fantastic opportunity for a Director of Communications to join a high profile organisation within the travel industry.

You will be a strong strategic communicator and the role will report directly into the CEO along with being a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating, leading and driving all Strategic Communications for the organisation across all stakeholder communications
• Leading an organisation through a major change programme, ideally with brand management at it’s core
• Responsible for managing multiple matrix and complex stakeholders, with the ability to adapt communications for different stakeholders
• Lead all stakeholder communications, including member, customer, internal and media
• Lead crisis/issues communications and manage the high flow of events, responding quickly and managing complex issues
• Working closely with the CEO and Board, acting as communications and brand counsel on the Senior Leadership Team
• Be a key media spokesperson for the organisation
• Responsible for managing and leading a team of 11, including Media & PR, Brand & Marketing and Internal Communications
• Work closely with the Public Affairs team, ensuring alignment in messaging
• Responsible for Brand management, ensuring all comms and marketing position the brand correctly to external audiences including members, consumers and media
• Lead proactive communications activity, positioning the organisation as the ‘voice of the industry’ supporting strategic priorities
• Lead internal communications activity

Key Skills:

• Proven experience taking a business through a significant transformation/change
• Proven strategic communications experience, working closely with multiple and complex stakeholders
• Prior experience as a media spokesperson is required
• Extensive issues/crisis comms experience is required
• Experience working for a fast paced, issues rich organisation is required
• Strong leadership skills
• Stakeholder management skills

If you have the required experience and would like to be considered for this role please apply with your current CV.