Media and Stakeholder Relations Manager

Overview

Manage media and stakeholder relations to build SUEZ’s external profile.

Key Responsibilities

• crisis management
• stakeholder mapping
• business development
• media relations
• media monitoring
• pr campaigns

Tasks

-Reputation and issues management: prepare reactive and proactive statements to protect the company’s reputation and act as deputy for critical incidents, including shared responsibility for out of office hours cover during incidents. -Stakeholder mapping: identify and map key external stakeholders, maintaining a database of contacts with tiered priority and tracking contacts and relationships. -Contract, region and business development project support: working with the relevant regional communications leads, adapt corporate messaging for regional audiences, provide support for contract/regional communications initiatives and events with links to corporate priorities and development communications plans to support business development projects in the regions. -Press office management: maintain a database of media contacts to facilitate media relations, provide comment on contemporary events/issues consistent with agreed messaging and positioning, draft press releases to promote company news. -Monitoring and evaluation: manage the company’s monitoring service, ensuring accurate pick up and tagging of relevant intelligence and company and competitor coverage to enable benchmarking and evaluation of overall share of voice and individual campaigns. -Campaign development and delivery: develop PR campaigns to support strategic business objectives and promote company initiatives and services.

Requirements

• media relations
• media monitoring
• project management
• cipr
• writing
• strategic thinking

What You Bring

-Experience developing and rolling out multi-channel PR campaigns and communications plans to support business priorities and develop positioning and profile. -Excellent writing skills with the ability to write engaging copy for a variety of channels and audiences, including translating complex technical information for lay audiences. -Are you an experienced media relations professional? -Familiar with media monitoring platforms. -Strong project management/organisation skills, combined with the ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously with both long and short deadlines. -Knowledge or interest in waste and resource management, environmental sector/issues, or aligned industries / sectors e.g. infrastructure, utilities. -Understanding of the workings of central, regional and local government. -22.5 Hours per week -Degree educated in journalism, communications, marketing, politics or a related discipline with an additional Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) certificate or diploma. -Strong interpersonal skills, comfortable engaging at all levels of the organisation from the frontline to the board in a matrix environment and able to represent the company to external stakeholders and at external events. -Strategic thinking skills to anticipate impacts of business decisions and to identify potential risks / opportunities.

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Benefits

-Offered on a Part Time basis - Monday to Wednesday (job share with current role holder) -£55,940 (to be pro rated) + Car/Car Allowance + 20% Bonus + Benefits

About Suez

-Tracing its roots over 160 years, the company has evolved into a global force in water treatment and waste management. -It operates in 40 countries. -The firm designs, builds and operates thousands of treatment plants—serving over a billion people worldwide. -Its Engineering & Construction arm delivers turnkey water and waste recycling facilities using flagship technologies. -The consulting division supports cities and industries with infrastructure planning, resilience, and water‑cycle expertise. -Its R&D hubs—across Europe and Asia—hold over 1,800 patents and pioneer innovations like wastewater heat recovery.

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Interview Process

-interviews scheduled week commencing 10th november 2025