Overview

Position Title: Communications Manager

Company: Gumtree

Location: Kilkeel, United Kingdom

Job Description:

With nearly a million new ads on the site each week and a whopping 14 million unique visitors every month, Gumtree prides itself on being the go-to place for everything from smartphones to cars and jobs to flats.

 

As a company we are on a mission to make buying and selling second hand safer, simpler and more enjoyable for everyone, because we believe everything can find a new purpose (and that’s good for you and good for the planet).

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with our Marketing department to internally animate our brand messaging and marketing activations
  • Ensure internal communication messages are consistent across all mediums and for different departments of the organisation – and ensure these are aligned with external messages also
  • In collaboration with the Head of PR, handle the internal communication response to crisis situations which affect organisational perception and reputation
  • Circulate the organisation to stay in touch with commercial activity and spot opportunities to travel key messaging across departments/the business
  • Draft messaging from senior executives for presentation to employees in written or spoken form
  • Act as a feedback loop for senior executives – relaying change issues, developments throughout the organisation, either face to face or through regular written communication
  • Plan, edit and write content for a variety of internal communication channels such as the company intranet, fortnightly newsletter and team Slack channels

Requirements:

  • You will have a commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
  • You need the creative ability to devise communication strategies and help bring these to life via digital channels
  • A team player and natural collaborator who is also self-motivated with an ability to use initiative
  • You need fantastic interpersonal and relationship-building skills to support external comms, marketing, the people team and senior stakeholders
  • You will have a flair for storytelling and have excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills as well as the capability to source stories from employees
  • Confidence using Google, MS, KeyNote etc. is essential
  • Confident and charismatic with a can-do approach to present ideas to the broader team regularly

Benefits:

  • Private health insurance. 🏥
  • Income protection policy. 💰
  • Hybrid / Office based working available* 💻
  • Private dental insurance. 🦷
  • 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service. 🏖️
  • Conference & education budget. 🏫
  • Company bonus scheme. 💷

About Gumtree

At Gumtree, we’re proud to have spent the last 20 years helping to make ‘Good Finds’ happen for millions of people across the UK. From motors to sofas, records to roommates, connecting people to what they need, when they need is what a Good Find is all about - even if that does sometimes mean the occasional advert with a typo in a headline or a thumb over the camera lens. Over the years we’ve helped start next chapters, supported communities and small businesses and encouraged people to embrace a culture of re-commerce, where we waste less, share more and help each other out in small ways.