Strategic Communications Manager

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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Biffa

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1912

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Logistics • Consulting • Healthcare

Biffa is a leading waste management company in the UK, dedicated to transforming waste into valuable resources and fostering sustainable communities. With over 100 years of experience, Biffa provides comprehensive waste management solutions including waste prevention, recycling, and recovery processes. The company is deeply committed to the circular economy and plays a pivotal role in the UK's efforts to tackle climate change. Offering services to small, medium, and large businesses as well as local authorities, Biffa focuses on reducing emissions, enhancing recycling efforts, and innovating for environmental sustainability. Biffa also partners with various organizations and institutions to address significant challenges in waste management.

📋 Description

• Own the annual strategic communications planning process and calendar, aligning communications activity with business strategy, commercial objectives and corporate priorities • Act as the strategic communications business partner for Corporate Affairs, Divisional Marketing teams and Internal Communications Business Partners • Develop communication campaigns including audience segmentation, messaging frameworks, channel strategies, campaign objectives and measurement approaches • Coordinate activity across earned media, thought leadership, organic social media, executive profiling, stakeholder engagement and community activity • Establish and manage the strategic communications editorial pipeline from ideation through execution on a monthly and weekly basis • Coordinate Press & Media, Social Executive and Community Executive activities with Digital and Content Marketing teams across divisions • Ensure a structured programme of stories, campaigns and content opportunities aligned to key business priorities • Ensure consistency of messaging, positioning and storytelling while maintaining flexibility for divisional and regional requirements • Use data, insight and performance measurement to improve effectiveness and focus resources on valuable activity • Report directly to the Head of Strategic Communications

🎯 Requirements

• Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience in communications, marketing, public affairs, journalism or a related discipline • Significant experience in strategic communications, corporate affairs, communications planning or integrated marketing communications • Proven experience developing and delivering integrated strategic communications plans and campaigns • Experience operating within a complex matrix organisation with multiple stakeholders • Experience working across earned, owned and social media channels • Experience collaborating with senior leaders, subject matter experts and cross-functional teams • Understanding of SEO, digital marketing and content optimisation principles • Use of PowerPoint design and Excel • Comfortable with planning tools such as Click Up

🏖️ Benefits

• Home based working arrangement • Occasional travel • 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday, with occasional flexibility required • Career opportunities described as rewarding and challenging • Commitment to diversity and equality in the working environment