Manager - Media Communications & Public Relations - Financial Services Firm

Manager - Media Communications and PR (Leading Financial Services Company)

Position : Manager- Media Communications and PR (Leading Financial Services Company)

Role :

- Device and supervise the media outreach strategy for the agency and maintain relationships with a portfolio of media journalists, industry associations and key market participants

- Handle media communications and Press Releases

- Direct and manage the media outreach efforts.

- Monitor media outreach and performance and provide strategic feedback to senior management

- Develop compelling content for pitching and positioning media articles to journalists, social media posts and media & investor communique

- Reach out to and be responsible for relationship building and management with trade bodies and industry associations on a pan India basis.

- Provide direct marketing support to the Business/Company (mainline and digital)

- Manage and execute institutional investor engagement programs

- Handle internal and external communications.

- Develop and maintain presentation overviews and pitch books

- Contribute generally to implementation of strategy for the Marketing & Corporate Communications team.

- Interacting with journalists across traditional and digital media by pitching story ideas, initiating media coverage, following up on market events, invites to road shows, coordinate and follow up on requests.

- Writing media content, marketing materials, pitch books and presentations with guidance of senior management

- Keeping up to date with market issues and proactively identifying areas of opportunity.

- Entering information into the database, maintaining lists for a variety of outreach types and monitoring the investor and media portfolio information

Requirements :

- Post Graduate degree, preferably in a finance or business or mass media related subject with at least 5-8 years of experience

- Previous experience in a financial services environment and dealing with financial media journalists across publications, electronic media and new age media

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- An interest in financial markets

- Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to a high standard.

- Indian language skills are an advantage

- Highly self-motivated: ability to generate ideas and demonstrate initiative, tenacity and perseverance: individually and within a team.

- Ability to thrive under pressure and demonstrate flexibility to meet tight deadlines

Location : Mumbai