Marketing Communications Professional - Internal Firm Services at PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) - UPDATED

PwC firms help organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 223,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. In Sub-Saharan Africa, we're the largest provider of professional services with offices in 34 countries and close to 9 000 people. PwC has been operating in Nigeria since 1953 through its predecessor firms of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. We're one of the leading professional services firms in the country with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, over 1000 staff and 27 resident partners.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Marketing Communications Professional - Internal Firm Services

Reference Number: 125-NIG00116
Location: Lagos
Department: Internal Firm Services
Job type: Permanent
Reporting to: The Head of Clients and Markets Development

The Role

• An experienced marketing communications professional with a few years marketing communications and business experience, preferably in an advertising or B2B environment.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide marketing and communications support across a range of programmes and initiatives.
• The Clients and Markets Development team supports a range of leaders and their teams, predominantly by providing communications support, implementing marketing activities, and finding ways to share and collaborate across the Firm and the PwC network on a wide range of initiatives.
• This role represents an opportunity to work with a wide range of people, sometimes at senior levels. It requires an individual with a flexible and ‘can-do’’ attitude and a willingness to get things done. The role would suit someone with a number of years’ experience in a generalist marketing and communications role, or internal communications role with some marketing/PR experience. The role involves:

Internal communications:

• Developing internal communications plans, messages and materials to communicate specific initiatives to a range of internal stakeholders.

Change communications:

• Developing communications plans, messages and materials in support of Firmwide change programmes
• Marketing support:
• Working with varied groups to understand their marketing and PR objectives, develop plans and provide materials to support Firm initiatives

Collaboration and guidance:

• Managing programmes to keep stakeholders up to date on initiatives and to share best practice amongst the team.
• Develop internal communications channels to share ideas and best practice in these areas.
• Contribution to Firm activities:
• Contributing to the work of the CMD team - for example, managing the Firm’s web presence, developing new content, developing new media plans, providing input for various global initiatives, branding and other Communications projects.

Event planning and implementation:

• Develop and launch a schedule of events, conferences and sponsorships planned across solution sets and industries. Track and report on delivery.
• Analyze post-event feedback and lessons learned and return on investment including potential leads and make recommendations to continually improve the events program.

Core skill expectations:

• High level of fluency in spoken and written English
• Ability to express information in a clear, concise and engaging and attractive manner
• Strong people management skills of self, team and senior stakeholders
• Excellent project management skills and good problem solving ability
• Good team player - demonstrated ability to work as part of a team in supporting colleagues on cross-firm initiatives and campaigns
• Experience of being able to work on multiple projects /events simultaneously.
• Proactive with a ‘can-do’ approach.
• Confident and effective communication in order to be credible when articulating a course of action.
• Preferably, knowledge of Consulting Services broadly.
• An understanding of social media channels.
• Sufficient business acumen to understand business drivers behind marketing activity as well as being commercially and risk aware.
• Resilience, with the ability to work to tight deadlines and maintain high levels of professionalism under pressure.
• At ease working as part of an international, multicultural team
• Excellent time management with the ability to multi-task
• Even tempered with ability to maintain positive energy in stressful situations

Technical Skill Expectations

• 2 - 3 years of relevant experience gained in communications/events/ media / PR in a professional services environment.
• Journalistic/creative writing experience on a variety of topics
• Highly developed brand management skills
• Can work in a technical environment, able to quickly build an understanding of service areas
• Experience of using digital / social communication techniques.

Application Closing Date
12th February, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online