At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Communications Manager to join our ranks and help build the future of the realm! This role will lead the EMEA corporate communications strategy.

Your are:

A multi-layered professional, a forward-thinking organiser and communicator, natural problem solver and relationship builder. You’re proactive and hands-on, with a drive and determination to succeed. You’re confident establishing relationships with the project skills and resilience to deliver!
Calm, act with integrity and discretion, and appreciate how integral reputation is to growth. You like a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Join an experienced leadership team creating and developing diverse and inclusive teams to create amazing experiences.

What you'll do:

Establish an outstanding press office coordinated across platforms and channels, developing corporate narrative and messaging for the Group, divisions and business units with our North American team.
Act as consultant to internal teams (product/franchise level PR/Influencers) on the plans developed by the internal Brand and Social Marketing team.
Generate compelling news articles for a wide range of corporate media, improving a number of media channels and platforms.
Create engaging specific content for owned channels (website and Twitter, senior leader LinkedIn).
Build and own relationships with key journalists, commentators and influencers to maintain the reputation of the organisation, ensuring that views are sought and recognised, driving favourable coverage and commentary.
Plan and implement a full programme of business leadership activities, work across multiple teams, business units and senior leaders to identify external opportunities.
Act as a trusted counsellor, identifying proactive reputation building opportunities and ensuring that they are appropriately supported and prepared for media activity and other external engagements.
Support the global media team in mapping and monitoring using internal tools and resources, to anticipate and plan for responses to emerging industry and corporate governance topics that could affect the business.
Support and deputise for the Global Communications Director on issues and crisis management by working to prepare replies as needed and/or directly leading issue conversations.

What you'll bring:

Organised: Love a list and have strong planning and organisation skills.
Measured: We want to measure the success of our campaigns and initiatives so projects show a return on investment.
Accurate: to work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
Inspiring: ensuring that outstanding processes are in place and adhered to driving team efficiency and quality of execution.
Established experience in corporate communications, ideally gained in a leading agency and/or in-house.
Excellent communication, written and presentation skills. Outstanding ability to develop engaging, audience-specific narrative, messaging and content across a range of subject areas, with speed and accuracy.
Strong attention to detail, developing accurate written, digital and face to face communications content.
Experience in deploying messaging in the most effective way using an optimal mix of available channels on a limited budget. Experience analysing, recommending and introducing standard methodologies to drive best in class external communication.
Strong project management abilities; capable of prioritizing and balancing multiple projects simultaneously within budget parameters
Ability to establish, exploit and influence effective networks at all levels - strong relationship building skills.
Ability to rapidly digest issues, formulate strategy / responses and execute to our standard, and with sound judgment in order to act as reputational advisor to business partners.
Experience in games/entertainment industry desired, but not essential

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

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