Corporate Communications / PR Manager (m/w/d)

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute communications plans that support company priorities.
• Support CEO and executive communications through messaging, briefings and thought leadership.
• Lead media relations and crisis communications preparation and response.
• Partner with Marketing and Brand to deliver right‑sized consumer PR programs supporting brand and growth objectives.
• Establish and manage the company's data storytelling efforts, using them to strengthen both brand consideration and employer reputation.
• Look two to three years ahead and set a long‑term communications and reputational strategy.
• Consolidate corporate, internal, CEO and consumer PR under one roof, and design a hub‑and‑spoke model for local markets.
• Shift the function from coordinator to conductor: proactive, agenda‑setting, embedded in ExCo rhythm.
• Bring core capability in‑house and rebalance agency spend toward special projects and market‑specific work.

Qualifications

• Senior communications leadership experience, ideally in a consumer‑facing European business.
• Strategic and hands‑on: can shape a three‑year narrative with the CEO and edit a press release the same day.
• Fluent across corporate, internal, consumer PR and executive comms.
• Fluent in English and German (non‑negotiable), comfortable operating pan‑European.