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Bauer Media Group

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Communications Manager Strategy & Planning to join our Global Communications Team.
In this newly created role, reporting directly to the Head of Corporate Communications Strategy & Planning, you will drive the corporate communications strategy and planning to support Bauer Media's transformation. This will include enhancing the internal understanding and external awareness of the transformation – ensuring harmonised and effective communications land with impact.
This will be a full-time, hybrid position that allows for a balance between working from home and in one of our offices in Hamburg or London. It will also involve some European travel.


  • Develop and maintain Bauer Media's group-wide corporate communications strategy, working closely with the Head of Corporate Communications Strategy & Planning and other key stakeholders
  • Oversee and coordinate the group-wide communications calendar and air traffic control in line with the strategy, thus ensuring harmonised and effective communications
  • Identify and flag risks in the implementation of the communications strategy and planning
  • Establish communications milestones and KPIs and develop and implement monitoring plans to evaluate and analyse communication effectiveness
  • Identify and implement communications trends, evaluate best practices and promote knowledge transfer across the entire communications team
  • Analyse data and implement processes to support data-driven decision-making across the entire communications team
  • End-to-end project management

  • 6-8 years of experience in developing and implementing corporate communications strategies as well as leading and delivering communications campaigns
  • Able to think laterally about the impact of communications
  • Highly organised with a logical approach, great at prioritising and managing productivity
  • Confident communicator: able to persuade, negotiate, influence and network
  • Experience of transformation programmes in the media sector is desirable
  • Office365 skills (especially MS Teams and SharePoint)
  • Fluent spoken and excellent written English, further languages like German or Polish are desirable

Bauer Media Group has become an enduringly successful media corporation by focusing on creating content that matters most to millions of people around the world: from print and online publishing to radio and comparison portals, as well as sales and marketing services. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer focuses on the long term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our increasingly diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 15,000 shares a passion – to deliver content and services that are popular with, and helpful to, our customers and partners.

We want to inspire not only our customers, we also want to inspire our colleagues. How? By giving you the opportunity to take on responsibility and by offering you a long-term perspective.

You can also benefit from our attractive offers:

  • Individual solutions for the flexible organisation of working hours and location
  • Targeted and individual training for your professional and personal development
  • A central location in Hamburg's city centre with good transport options (bus & train)
  • Subsidy for HVV ProfiTicket & bike leasing
  • Effective health management (e.g. health week, free sports programmes & Wellhub)
  • 30 days of holiday & frequent events for employees
  • Company restaurant, free magazines & various discounts via corporate benefits
  • A culture in which personal responsibility, teamwork and creativity are valued and you have room for creativity and for exciting and challenging tasks

If you are looking for an independent position and would like to enrich our existing team with fresh impulses, we look forward to receiving your complete application documents.

Your contact for this position is Katrin Ammazzalorso.

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

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