Job opportunity: Media Relations Manager

Job description

• Shape and deliver our media strategy, ensuring that our priority messages and stories are reflected in media across the EU, from print to broadcast, from top-tier to specialised press.
• Maintain a network of journalists on the EU and national levels; build long-term relationships with media influencers.
• Proactive media outreach: pitch stories to media, tailoring the news angle to different interests; identify media opportunities.
• Develop and draft engaging content for journalists, eg headline-grabbing press releases, op-eds, backgrounders, Q&As, etc.
• Organise high-level press conferences, media roundtables and interviews.
• Serve as ACEA’s media liaison, handling media enquiries.
• Media monitoring and compiling daily summaries for the ACEA team
• Media analysis and reporting on KPIs.
• Keep abreast of the media landscape and ensure ACEA’s media database is up-to-date.

Profile

• A good storyteller
• Outgoing personality with excellent people skills
• Good understanding of political/policy communications and the EU decision-making process
• Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise and multitask
• Enthusiastic and positive team player
• Native-level English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Other languages are a plus.
• Around five years of relevant work experience (eg journalist, communications agency, trade association)
• Based in Brussels or willing and eligible to work in Brussels

What we offer

• Join a leading European industry association as part of a driven team of multicultural professionals in a time of change and transformation.
• Impact the work of an entire European industry, which – directly or indirectly employs millions of workers across the continent and whose products are used even more widely.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

How to apply

• Please send your CV and letter of application to the attention of Ben Kennard at bk@acea.auto (subject line: ACEA Media Relations Manager) before 23:59 (CEST) 28 July 2024. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is looking to reinforce its dynamic communications team with an experienced Media Relations Manager.