Media Manager

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

As part of the press office team, help build trust in the business and mitigate reputational risk by responding to media enquiries, writing statements and Q&As, managing filming requests and briefing spokespeople ahead of interviews.

You will be responsible for

• Handling media enquiries and ensuring accurate, rapid and well-crafted responses
• Working collaboratively with Group Communications and wider business to ensure relevant teams and stakeholders are engaged on media opportunities, issues and risks
• Managing and communicating on a portfolio of issues including preparing communications plans and Q&As ahead of planned business activity.
• Spotting, sourcing and generating proactive stories to help land positive media coverage - Maintaining effective relationships with key journalists and media outlets
• Maintaining effective relationships with other external stakeholders and agencies, where necessary
• Reviewing filming requests and managing shoots where needed
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
• Supporting the press office outside of normal working hours as part of on-call rota

You will need

• Excellent communication skills
• An in depth knowledge of the media landscape in general and the ideally retail sector specifically. Ability to build relationships with journalists
• A can-do, collaborative approach, ability to multi-task
• Experience of working under pressure and at a fast pace
• Ability to identify potential reputational risk
• Experience dealing with journalists from national, local and trade outlets.
• Experience managing agencies and working with other external stakeholders.
• Experience of building internal stakeholder networks

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.