Director, Employer Brand & Communications

You will:

• Develop and execute effective communications strategies aligned to the Product Madness business priorities, including to be recognised as an Employer of Choice, and ensure alignment with Pixel United and Aristocrat. This will include internal and external communications that support Product Madness EVP (which you will help articulate & brand), ensure clarity of strategy to our employees, enhance our incredible culture, and drive team and stakeholder engagement, in partnership with People & Culture and other colleagues across the business. Communication activities will also include PR, B2B communication and special events.
• Ensure effective allocation of resources, including management of vendors. Manage budgets and deliver strong ROI on our journey to becoming an Employer of Choice.
• Measure the impact of initiatives, identify and deliver on opportunities for continuous improvement including use of new technologies and tools where relevant to enhance the candidate and employee experience, and potential B2B targets.
• Work with the VP Communications, Pixel United to support the Company’s broader corporate affairs objectives, including its Responsible Gameplay ambitions . Contribute thought leadership, and help ensure ongoing improvement and innovation in corporate affairs.
• Support, leverage and advance CSR activity and progress, in consultation with colleagues, to support our EVP, talent attraction goals, brand and other objectives.
• Oversee delivery of other major Group initiatives and communication within Pixel United ; act as a coordination point for information and ensure important messages are tailored and delivered effectively to PM.
• Support Product Madness in managing crisis management, PR issues, media engagement (as required) and the strengthening and safeguarding of the brand and reputation of Product Madness.

• First and foremost, you are passionate about what you do, and the impact your work has across an entire organization and the external world. You’re passionate about the Employee Experience, how culture and values are at the heart of it, and how you can bring it to life to current and potential employees and business partners.
• You don’t have to be a gamer, but it helps if you understand why we love what we do!
• You’ll have international experience in Communications leadership roles, ideally in fast-paced, innovative environments. Experience in a digital business is strongly preferred. You think & do strategically, with a track record of successfully setting and executing communication strategy.
• You are at ease in diverse, multicultural environments, able to understand and adapt to different cultures and communication styles.
• You are highly diligent, confident, accountable, with strong collaboration skills, and the ability to build strong relationships across the organization. You’re comfortable taking responsibility for the public perception of the company, and have the confidence and collaboration to manage stakeholders at all levels of the organization. This also entails challenging them constructively, for the betterment of our brand and EVP.
• You have high quality written and oral communication skills, and skills in digital communication, able to adapt your communication style to the situation at hand, whether it’s fun and inspiring our legendary employee Townhalls that celebrate our culture, or whether it’s more serious crisis management communications such as updates on the situation and our colleagues in Ukraine.
• You have demonstrable experience of B2B communications, brand PR and event management expertise, project planning and delivery.
• You have proven experience effectively leading, hiring, managing, inspiring and developing people, managing budgets, vendors and allocating resources efficiently, creating clear processes.
• You have a high level of personal probity, influencing and relationship building skills at all levels of the organization.
• You’re able to deploy thought leadership and contribute to positive culture at a team and organisational level.