Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, APAC

Position Title: Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, APAC

Location: Singapore

Your role 

The Senior Manager Corporate Communications, Asia Pacific is a strategic role in the global Marketing organization taking the global PR / media communications strategy to adapt, develop and execute the regional PR / media communications strategy. The candidate will lead an integrated, proactive, and strategic approach to all external communications in the local markets to positively increase the brand awareness and profile of Digital Realty across target markets, contributing to the global demand generation programmes.

The candidate will work with external agencies and matrix manage the PR field marketing teams in the region. They will also be an essential link to PR colleagues in the other regions and provide regular support to the Senior Director of Global Corporate Communications.

What you’ll do 

• Develop the external communications strategy for Asia Pacific to elevate Digital Realty’s position and reputation, including (but not limited to) target media. It is important to
  • consider both regional, national and trade media; and
  • be mindful of the many different cultures Digital Realty targets, and the mix of local languages, making it essential to offer feedback to the corporate program.
• Drive the global PR / media strategy across Asia Pacific, offering additional support into the U.S. and EMEA.
• Offer team support for the development and delivery of corporate communications strategy, working across a portfolio of campaigns to build awareness across multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure message consistency across the region giving advice on market positioning.
• Work with the regional leadership team and other internal thought leaders to create compelling content to build the company’s profile.
• Support the field marketing teams in Asia Pacific with strong writing, editing, and publishing capabilities.
• Develop close working relationships with the countries and regions to ensure joined up working for maximum impact of all corporate communications activities.
• Provide additional regional marketing support on strategic programs and campaigns.
• Set up strategic partnerships with key media agencies to deliver brand awareness and media opportunities to position the business, etc.
• Develop strategy, talking points and preparation as it relates to supporting regional speaking engagements.
• Liaise with and guide senior executives in the region, ensuring they are well trained and prepared for participation in all external opportunities.
• Work closely with the regional marketing teams to understand the lead generation campaigns they have planned and where PR can amplify the results to increase success.
• Educate press, bloggers, and other influential parties about Digital Realty.
• Create innovative ways to amplify the results of media across all external channels, including leadership profiling.
• Understand how to cut through the media noise in a highly crowded market.
• Demonstrate best practice in managing communications and quality standards.
• Ensure a consistently high-quality experience across all corporate touch points.
• Safeguard the brand identity, messaging, and positioning across all external communications.
• Manage budget spend with external agencies ensuring value for money and return on investment.
• Measure results, ensuring the right impact for the business and adapt strategy where needed.

What you’ll need 

• Educated to degree level or similar marketing qualification.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including proven experience of team leadership.
• Extensive media relations experience with national and local, trade and business press.
• Proven relevant strategic marketing experience.
• Strong programme and project management skills.
• Customer passion, team working and detail oriented.
• Excellent delivery skills and ability to adapt to fast changing environments.
• High personal standards and goal oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and effective communications skills, both orally and written.
• Collaborate and take the lead with cross-functional teams to develop innovative and differentiated PR campaigns.
• Provide strategic corporate and regional PR input to annual marketing planning process.
• Provide budget details and analysis monthly and during yearly planning cycle, including impact or programmes in place.
• Ability to be proactive, independently create and implement integrated communications, including the integration of digital and social programmes into PR, and execute seamlessly across multiple projects with success.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to lead and manage multiple time-sensitive projects under tight deadlines.
• Proven editor and writer who can share knowledge and skills.
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and drive, knowing how to operate within the frameworks of a large, global business.
• Excel at cross-group collaboration, creative thinking, problem solving and have a bias for action.
• Motivated self-starter who thrives on working in complex and challenging environments of a rapidly evolving business.
• Analytical tendencies with a natural curiosity to measure, test, learn and iterate to get the best results possible.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with an innate attention to detail.
• Strong project management skills with experience gaining consensus and driving deliverables with individuals inside and outside the organization.
• Willingness to travel and ability to work independently and autonomously.
• Understanding and experience of digital marketing tools.
• Understanding of the data center and cloud marketplace an advantage.
• Prior experience in delivering strategic corporate communications with differentiated PR campaigns.
• Experience of copy writing, editing, and reviewing content with meticulous attention to detail – in English and knowledge of local language / dialect an advantage, but not essential.
• Experience of working with vendors, building and managing third-party relationships.
• Experience of data-driven marketing reporting and analytics aligned with business KPIs.
• Experience of managing marketing budgets.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. 

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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