Communications Manager Job at Nigerian Breweries Plc

Nigerian Breweries Plc - As the foremost brewing company in Nigeria, we are proud of our vision to Wow Nigeria with our Great Brands, Passionate People and World Class Performance.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Communications Manager

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• We are looking for a highly skilled Corporate Communications Manager to develop and implement effective internal, external and digital communications strategies that align with our company's goals and objectives in the delivery of the NB Corporate Affairs strategy.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for managing our company's reputation including crisis and issues, building stakeholder relationships, and driving employee engagement.

In this role, you will

• Influence the implementation of internal, external, and digital communications and engagement strategy.
• Train, guide and counsel the business on communication and developing and embedding clear processes and ways of working for the Corporate Affairs team. 
• Work as a partner for Growth by implementing communication initiatives that promotes and embeds the organization’s priorities, purpose, values and behaviours.
• Monitor established communications calendar, manage the implementation progress and associated KPIs.
• Support the strategic planning framework for the Corporate Affairs (CA) function and track delivery of strategic and operational plan.
• Provide subject matter expertise around project planning and governance for the delivery of the Corporate Affairs Strategy.
• Challenge, coordinate, align and manage successful delivery of strategic and operational Corporate Affairs programs and projects – (ensuring projects are joined up and return on investment maximized).
• Develop, monitor, and implement a clear communications planning grid for the CA function covering annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly horizons.
• Critically evaluate CA campaign plans to ensure they are robust with clear objectives, adequately resourced, with realistic timelines, building post campaign evaluation into all projects and ensuring learning is applied to future activity.
• Recommend tools, platforms, and simple ways of working which promote cross functional working that make it easy for members of the CA team to collaborate, share information and work efficiently with minimal duplication and disruption.
• Influence the strategic planning framework for the Corporate Affairs function and track delivery of strategic and operational plan.
• Establish measurement, metrics and evaluation for all Corporate Affairs creativity and output to be underpinned by data to maximize impact and efficient use of resources.
• Ensure alignment by every member of the Corporate Affairs team to strategic plan and developing and embedding clear processes and ways of working for the Corporate Affairs team.
• Oversee channel management governance framework (internal and external) that will support the evolution of the function and ensure the appropriate balance between traditional and digital communication vehicles (internally and externally).
• Liaise with other team members/functions to ensure right time, right message and right channel communication strategy and take on projects as required.
• Design employer branding communication strategies and translate into robust internal communication tactics.
• Support the implementation of communication initiatives that promote and embed the organization’s cultural change journey as part of employee's everyday experience.