PR & Communications Senior Manager

Job Description

The Senior PR & Communications Manager is responsible for strategizing, planning, and executing communication activities, while fostering excellent media and key external stakeholder relations, strengthening executive communication and supporting CSR initiatives as well as Internal communication for the Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic.

We are looking for a team member who loves entertainment and storytelling across all content-serving platforms as well as products, experiences, games and music. Working closely with the PR & Communications teams including PR agency partners, the EMEA communications and CSR teams based in London as well as the business teams across the Nordics & Baltics, your role is responsible for campaigns and projects from early planning to execution, to support and strengthen our business and our brands, drive awareness within our target audiences and taking a lead on the evaluation and measurement of what we do.

You will join a high-paced, passionate team with a solution-oriented approach to challenges and opportunities. Our mission is to super-serve our key internal and external stakeholders and to be a driving force towards being the Local Leader in Global Entertainment. We empower each other to be our best and are individually committed to each fostering a team that is trusting, transparent and inclusive, while having fun together. We know that our roles can require resilience, and we support each other to be our best.

This role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week with one day working from home, to help creativity and collaboration through spontaneous interactions, leading to innovative ideas and effective teamwork.  

The Opportunity & Responsibilities:

We are searching for a passionate professional with a minimum of 12 years of experience within media relations and communications. Ideally, you have a demonstrated ability to serve as a strategist in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced international, matrix environment, while executing on plans, supporting the team and embracing opportunities to take on greater responsibilities and grow in the role.
• The Senior PR & Communications Manager will manage a diverse set of campaigns and projects across all 12 Nordic & Baltic business lines Including Direct-to-Consumer, Theatrical, TV Networks, Stage, Music, Gaming, Licensing and Retail; setting strategies and executing together with the local and regional PR teams and agency partners to deliver data-driven publicity campaigns.
• The Senior PR & Communications Manager has a strategic communications mindset – you look at the bigger picture to aid planning year on year, and by quarter - from setting evolving measurable targets to delivering evaluations and thinking about how to get the best outcomes.
• The Senior PR & Communications Manager will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders of the organization and will have an important role in influencing and supporting decisions and business strategies.
• The role will collaborate and build relationships with partners, press and executives, managing all facets of communications to internal and external audiences informed in a dynamic environment where change is a constant.
• The Senior PR & Communications Manager serves as a point person for Nordic & Baltic PR campaigns, taking a collaborative approach to planning and execution with local and regional marketing and integrated marketing teams. This may include go-to-market communications planning, asset gathering and approvals management. This comes with managing multiple projects simultaneously while remaining highly focused and flexible whilst working under pressure.
• The role includes planning, development and execution of CSR programs and projects, aligned to the Walt Disney Company's community development efforts, working closely with the regional CSR team as well as partners and local teams.
• In our team, collaboration is key. The Senior PR & Communications Manager will be working together with all local lines of businesses, as well as marketing, social and CRM teams, peers across EMEA and PR agency partners in 7 Nordic & Baltic countries to maximize opportunities and devise fully cohesive and innovative publicity or CSR campaigns.
• Potential travel required as business dependencies dictate and attend industry meetings as required.

The Experience & Skills We Require From You:
• You are fluent both in Swedish and English languages,
• Currently in a senior position in a communications department and/or at a PR agency preferably specializing in culture, media or entertainment.
• You love entertainment, that's your passion and you bring a clear understanding of what's needed to secure brilliant outcomes for The Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic, including our 360 offering in general and our content in particular.
• You are confident overseeing campaigns end to end inclusive of talent and/or senior executive relations and event executions.
• You think about evaluation at the start of your campaign or quarter, set clear KPIs that measure your work and take learnings onboard.
• You are at your best when working with a range of stakeholders, globally - with demonstrable experience in a similar international role working in a large, matrixed organization to solve problems that are operationally challenging
• You are a self-starter but a true team player with a genuine enthusiasm for communications and public relations as well as team development
• You have experience handling senior stakeholders with a corporate team, and owning a crisis, big or small, and have been involved in reactive planning and crisis handling
• You enjoy making a difference in the community and engaging and inspiring teams, partners and audiences through strategic and purpose-driven CSR projects.
• You have experience motivating people and teams, and demonstrating their own growth and development as applicable
• You are passionate about great content across genres, and are able to channel this into your work by being consistently curious and looking for ways to innovate

This position is with The Walt Disney Company Nordic AB, which is part of a business we call Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8bxq9-18-188-100-195-42 in your application.