Local Communication Manager at Bolt Nigeria

Bolt (formally Taxify) is one of the fastest growing startups in the world with over 30M happy customers in 30+ countries, from Europe to Mexico to Africa. We’re building a ride-hailing app to connect millions of riders and drivers around the world to make travel easier, quicker and more reliable.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Local Communication Manager

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Marketing

Job Description

• We are looking for a Local Communication Manager who will be responsible for creating and implementing PR and marketing strategy for Bolt in Nigeria.
• This role owns Bolt’s external communication in Nigeria across all owned and earned channels, including creating PR and marketing materials, administrating social media channels and acting as a contact point for the media and potential partners.

Responsibilities
Your daily adventures will include:

• Creating and maintaining good relationships with journalists, responding to media inquiries
• Writing press releases and pitching news stories to the media
• Preparing spokespeople and staffing interviews and press events
• Overseeing the creation of all necessary marketing materials in Nigeria, including suggesting ideas and writing copy for ads, social media posts, blog articles and print materials
• Supporting performance marketing and campaigns, driving growth for our products in Nigeria
• Reaching out to other brands with attractive partnership offers and executing partnership campaigns with other brands or events
• Creating proactive plans for PR and marketing in Nigeria with other local stakeholders to ensure a constant positive news flow about Bolt in-country
• Delivering and measuring the results for PR engagements and local marketing campaigns
• Other miscellaneous tasks, including supporting employer branding-related activities, ad-hoc driver engagement events and managing crisis communications when needed.

Requirements
We are looking for:

• 4 years of relevant experience in Marketing and PR
• Experience in drafting PR materials and working with journalists
• Experience in running marketing activities, including social media management and offline marketing campaigns
• Strong written and spoken communication, including great copywriting skills
• Capability to collaborate with many different stakeholders, experience in an international environment is a plus
• Good understanding of which marketing and PR activities work on the local market
• Fluent in English language
• Good project management and reporting skills
• Basic experience with Figma and other design tools is a plus.

Why you’ll love it here

• Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.
• Impact millions of customers and partners in 500+ cities across 45 countries.
• Make your mark at one of the fastest-growing organisations in Europe.
• Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.
• Accelerate your professional growth and enjoy unique career opportunities.
• Get a rewarding salary and stock option package that lets you focus on doing your best work.
• Enjoy health care coverage, and plenty of other perks.*Some perks may differ depending on your location.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.