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Assistant PR Manager

Job Summary:

The Assistant PR Manager will work within the UK PR team, reporting to the Senior PR Manager, who is assigned to the UK Marketing team.

As a key member of the PR team, you will be able to lead on a select number of projects and across the wider portfolio, alongside the UK lead.

The successful candidate will be highly organised and motivated with exceptional communication skills and proven experience within PR, particularly in video games.

Requirements

Key Deliverables:

Working with the Senior PR Manager, you will be responsible for delivering and executing plans for a select number of upcoming campaigns and assisting the Snr PR Manager with the day-to-day management of the UK PR responsibilities.

Key responsibilities:

• Create, plan, and execute UK PR communication tactics and approaches
• Ensure that all assets, press releases and other PR opportunities are fully maximised
• Manage the PR budget for the assigned products, in coordination with Senior PR Manager. Ensure that PO’s are raised, tracked in accordance with agreed budgets.
• Develop and nurture great working relationships with media, the wider strategy team and wider Territory PR stakeholders, to ensure a seamless and collaborative approach to the UK campaigns.
• Foster strong working relationships with the UK media landscape.
• Co-ordinate announcements, PR assets distribution to UK media.
• Align the UK PR campaigns and approaches with other cross functional teams, such as the Influencer Strategy team.
• Develop PR relationships with first parties (Sony/MS/Nintendo etc) and key partners, to enhance campaign KPIs
• Be the lead for all asset distribution from official press channels.
• Ad hoc tasks as and when required

Key Stakeholders:

Senior PR Manager UK, Marketing Director UK, European Marketing Director, Executive Director SEE Marketing, GM EU Commercial & Publishing, Sales team, Influencer Relations team, Distributor Partner, Project Teams

Knowledge & Experience:

Essential:

• Strong organisational and communication skills
• Excellent writing and creative skills
• Ability to adapt quickly and effectively to changing deadlines without compromising quality
• Previous Games Industry, either within agency or publisher side

Creative thinker with common sense and ability to take initiative, identify potential problems/issues and react/advise accordingly

Desirable:

• Degree or diploma in PR, Marketing, or a related field
• Interest and knowledge of video games

Competencies, Skills & Attributes:

Essential:

• Extremely well organised, excellent time management and ability to coordinate multiple projects efficiently
• Results oriented, outgoing, and self-motivated
• Ability to develop and manage strong relationships and collaborative skills
• Good written and spoken English
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong team player in a multi-cultural environment

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Covid-19 remote working

Square Enix are committed to keeping our employees safe. We are listening closely to government guidelines, and this role will be based remotely until the company sees fit to return to the office. This role will be based in our Blackfriars Studio in London, upon return.