Omnicom Public Relations
Director
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Omnicom Public Relations
Job Function
Communications and PR
Job Subfunction
Public Relations
Job Description
About Portland:
Portland is a global advisory firm, helping companies, foundations, governments, and organisations communicate effectively, grow, and succeed. We advise clients navigating business and reputational challenges, including regulatory change, political transition, and legal disputes and crises, ensuring they seize opportunities to engage in policy discussions and in the media when it matters most.
Headquartered in London, with a network of team members in critical markets, our advisors are drawn from the worlds of politics, business, law, and journalism. Our work is supported by specialist digital, research, and creative teams, and backed by Omnicom’s global network and capabilities. Combining political nous and cultural savvy, Portland’s advisers build strategies and campaigns tailored to clients’ needs, delivering outcomes that make a difference.
The Team
Our Corporate Affairs team advises some of the biggest and most exciting organisations in the world on their communications and reputation. Our team combines experience from the highest levels of the media, business, politics, government, and the City. We build and deliver communications strategies for major corporates, challenger brands, campaign groups, charities, and industry bodies. Our clients might be trying to grow their reputation, change the direction of a debate, or secure a better operating context.
The Role
We’re looking for a senior corporate affairs professional with deep expertise in corporate affairs and the judgement, credibility, and presence to advise senior leaders through complex, high-stakes situations. You’ll be as comfortable shaping strategy as you are leading teams, developing talent, and driving excellent execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Set strategic direction and oversee delivery of complex, high-profile client accounts, ensuring work is well-structured, insight-led, and delivered to consistently high standards
- Manage account operations including team resourcing, prioritisation, quality control, and client satisfaction
- Provide high-quality senior counsel on all areas of corporate affairs including reputation, transactions, issues, crisis, and corporate positioning
- Devise and lead integrated communications strategies and campaigns, spanning media, digital, stakeholder and issues engagement, thought leadership platforms, and executive profiling
- Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, editors, analysts, investors, and other key external stakeholders
- Originate and lead new business opportunities, proposals, and pitches from opportunity through to conversion
- Support practice growth through marketing activity, profile-raising, events, content, and market engagement
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What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience in corporate affairs and strategic communications either in an agency or in-house, with a deep understanding of the media and wider political, business, and policy landscape
- Well-connected across media, business, and financial audience
- Experience utilising and integrating AI tools within the execution of communications programmes including for research, insight, and analysis alongside more advanced functions
- A strategic thinker with strong commercial awareness, understanding how communications drives business objectives, reputation, and growth
- Proven leadership with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-moving consultancy environment
- Proactive and creative in spotting opportunities and bringing fresh thinking to clients and colleagues
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to produce and oversee high-quality strategic and client-facing materials
- Proven new business success, with experience generating opportunities, leading pitches, and converting them into lasting client relationships
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Nice To Have
- Experience in FMCG, financial communications, and/or working with government and public sector bodies
- Experience in crisis communications management or disputes communication
What We Offer
At Portland, we offer hybrid working, with our teams working together from the office three days a week. We are committed to development and have an open-doors culture where you will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced people in the business.
Our remuneration package also includes our competitive pension contributions, private healthcare or health cash plan, life assurance cover, company contribution to gym membership, wellbeing workshops and activities, company parties, birthday day off, lunch contribution each week, and much, much more!
Apologies in advance, but due to the high volume of applications we receive, it's not possible to respond directly to all applicants, only to those whose candidacy is being pursued.
Omnicom’s Policy
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice/
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