Communications Lead at Dentsu

Responsibilities

• Storytelling: Shape our story by crafting key press messaging, including press releases, executive briefs, and other assets.
• Content Creation: Develop and maintain content calendars, executive reports, and marketing materials for key leadership.
• Collaboration: Work closely with events, new business, strategy, and marketing teams across the region.
• Narrative Building: Collect and curate proof points from new work, research, trends, and top talent to support our narrative.
• Growth: Continuously enhance dentsu SA’s reputation, revenue, and margin.
• Service Diversification: Drive and develop the diversification of dentsu services.
• Integration: Simplify dentsu’s integrated model to build higher margins.
• Employee Engagement: Aim to achieve employee engagement scores of 75% and above.
• Internal Communication: Drive the internal understanding and roll-out of dentsu’s integrated proposition, amplifying business lines such as Creative LOB, Data proposition, Location Services, and Content.
• Motivation and Rewards: Develop and drive dentsu’s motivation and rewards programme.
• Onboarding: Support HR to amplify internally the new joiners, implementing a welcome process and welcome packs, and developing an internal communications strategy.
• Staff Engagement: Develop and drive staff engagement initiatives in conjunction with the SSA Comms Team.
• Culture Building: Create a culture and a healthy working environment, making dentsu the best place to grow your career.
• Internal Communications: Lead the planning and execution of dentsu’s internal communications.
• Social media: Plan and execute strategies across our social media platforms, design social media assets from provided templates and ensure alignment with our overall communications strategy and plan.
• Speaker Opportunities: Source and secure speaker opportunities and industry panel participation to highlight our key insights, product innovations across the region  and staretgically elevate dentsu employee profiles.
• Learning: Stay informed about RECMA/Scopen and dentsu’s data proposition.

Do You Have What It Takes? We’re looking for someone with:

• Excellent communication skills, strategic thinking, collaborative nature, creativity and innovation, attention to detail, leadership, adaptability, and a great cultural fit.
• At least 3-5 years in communications, public relations, or a related field. Experience in the advertising, marketing, or media industry is highly desirable. A proven track record in developing and executing communication strategies. Experience working with teams across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a plus.