Senior Communications Manager, Southern Europe

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.  

We are seeking a savvy communications professional for the role of Senior Manager, Communications for Southern Europe (Italy and Spain), reporting into Group Manager, Communications, EMEAL Growth Markets. Growth Markets in EMEA and LATAM represent one of our most dynamic and fastest growing regions for LinkedIn, and Italy and Spain are key markets within the region. This role sits on the EMEA & LATAM Comms team and partners closely with regional and global comms partners along with the relevant LinkedIn country managers.

The Senior Manager, Communications, Southern Europe will have a very good working knowledge of Italian and Spanish markets. This role will lead, build and execute the external global communications strategy across consumer, B2B and corporate audiences, and cover executive and trust communications portfolios in these two markets. This includes our owned and earned media programmes and integrated, measurable campaigns that support the company’s business objectives.  

Business objectives include raising awareness of our brand and our platform, driving education and engagement in Southern Europe. We are looking for a strategic self-starter who can work well both independently and collaboratively across the business, most closely with other leads in the growth markets team and with external agency partners. Demonstrating a proactive approach to communications, with a finger on the pulse of key local trends and challenges impacting the world of work is required to ensure we stay on our front foot and connect how our differentiated tech is accelerating the value we deliver. 

Responsibilities 

• Work with the Growth Markets leader and other market leads to define LinkedIn’s Southern Europe communications vision, strategy and plan to drive business impact 

• Be the strategic adviser and provide expert counsel to stakeholders on potential issues and experiences that can impact LinkedIn as a company and with our members and customers

• Build and foster relationships with teams and leadership across LinkedIn and identify new opportunities and processes to expand our communications impact in Italy and Spain

• Act as market expert for local media environment and driving meaningful conversations about LinkedIn that resonate with our members and potential members

• Partner closely with product, marketing, editorial teams locally and internationally on integrated campaign development and execution 

• Drive operational excellence with prioritization and possess a high degree of integrity and sense of confidentiality 

• Develop relevant and quality content and messaging 

• Identify and manage strategic media and speaking opportunities 

• Measure, track and report communications impact 

• Manage agency relationships and external partners as needed 

• Manage communications budgets

• Manage and build relationships with journalists in efforts to build story and brand opportunities for LinkedIn

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of communications experience 

• Native proficiency in Spanish

• Fluency in both verbal and written English

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in Italian

• Proven senior stakeholder exposure/management

• Strong understanding of business and media environment, particularly in consumer brands and/or consumer technology brands

• Well-developed media relationships with Italian and/or Spanish media particularly in the tech, HR, marketing trade press and national media

• Experience in collaborating with different teams throughout the region / globe

• Strong and clear communication and presentation skills to leadership level audiences (able to clearly articulate complex dependencies, solutions and communications strategies)