Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a creative, self-motivated, high-judgment, well-connected and experienced public relations professional for a 12-month contract to drive its communications program in DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). This includes corporate and product communications as well as launching and featuring new programs, partnerships, customer stories, in a way that maximizes positive coverage and awareness.
The right candidate possesses extensive media relations experience (traditional and digital) and is an expert writer. The DACH PR Manager will also have strong skills in developing and placing proactive stories, has familiarity with crisis communications, can exercise high-judgment while acting quickly, as well as a strong track record in leading successful launch events.
An AWS PR Manager in EMEA works as a trusted partner with all business units and collaborates with the AWS global and European PR/AR team, local marketing team, and AWS leaders to develop messaging, communication strategy, and plans. They will also act as an integral member of Amazon’s local, European, and worldwide communications team. The ideal candidate is motivated by Amazon’s culture of innovation where the challenge of breaking new ground and redefining best practices is welcome. In this role, the candidate will have an opportunity to build creative programs that are worthy of a company that continues to pioneer the cloud. This role will require travel.
This is a maternity back-fill role for a planned returnee. We expect the current incumbent to return to the position at the end of their maternity leave.
Since 2006, AWS has changed the way that companies acquire and use technology by providing a highly scalable, cost-effective, and flexible technology platform in the cloud. AWS has millions of active customers every month and has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload. AWS now has more than 175 services that range from compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid and enterprise applications. In DACH, AWS has tens of thousands active customers using AWS to save costs, be more agile, increase innovation, and transform their organisations.
Part of your professional challenges will be:
· Build and run innovative PR campaigns that align with a dynamic, pioneering cloud business
· Enhance AWS news and media relations activities and proactive campaigns
· Develop stories with customers and partners about their journey to the AWS Cloud
· Manage news-related daily, business and technology press opportunities
· Develop and successfully manage relationships with key media
· Work with the marketing team to support social media activities
· Lead media programmes around AWS owned- as well as third-party-events
· Manage PR agencies
· Minimum of seven years of public relations experience
· Team player who is willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done
· Excellent written and oral communications skills
· Outstanding attention to detail
· Strong project management skills
· Fluent German and business fluent English required, French and other languages advantageous
· Network of strong media contacts in Germany as well as in Switzerland and Austria
· Technology PR experience
· A strategic way of thinking and strong hands-on mentality
· Result oriented and data driven professional
· A great deal of personal initiative, creativity, decisiveness and team spirit