Reference: 46838
Date Added: 30 July 2014
Closing Date: 12 August 2014
Job Title: Regional Communications Officer - Midlands and East
Working For: McDonald's Restaurants Ltd
Location: Midlands/East of England
Salary: £27k - £30k plus car (or allowance), bonus & benefits
Length of Contract:
Job Details
To drive overall trust in the brand through effective execution of all areas of the communications strategy, which includes: delivering a local stakeholder engagement programme, managing media relations within the region whilst working side-by-side with franchisees and restaurants.
Principle responsibilities:
- Leads and implements regional communications plan in partnership with regional agencies and internal customers
- Facilitates and supports retail leaders stakeholder engagement and community programmes eg. MP visits, business group engagement, environmental projects etc
- Provides rapid response to regional issues with manager and support for national crisis team
- Manages regional media and political databases for engagement, press releases, statements, Q&As etc
- Gathers regional news for regional and national news generation programmes (internal and external)
- Acts as local media spokesperson and company representative
- On-call national press officer duties
The role covers a large geographical area and whilst an office base in Sutton Coldfield is available, travel throughout the region will feature heavily as part of the role.
Closing Date: 12 August 2014
Interview/Start Dates
1st interviews are likely to take place in Sutton Coldfield, w/c 18 August.
Shortlisted candidates would be invited for a 2nd interview at McDonald's UK Head Office in East Finchley.
Application Details
Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV to Shona Connolly, Regional Communications Co-ordinator - shona.connolly@uk.mcd.com.
We will reply to all applications including those who are not invited for interview.
Website: http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome.html