Communications Lead

Join Our Team as a Communications Lead (South Africa)

Are you ready to be part of one of the world’s largest and most dynamic agencies? At dentsu, we team together, integrate seamlessly, and bring our clients’ brands to life. We are happy, fun, focused, and talented, helping our clients truly understand and connect with their consumers.

As the Communications Lead for South Africa, you will drive dentsu’s communications and media relations strategy, working closely with the communications team that oversees the entire Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region.

Your role will involve crafting compelling narratives and engaging content that resonates with our audience, while aligning with our overarching African communications plan.

Job Description:

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.

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At dentsu, we believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to bring their unique perspectives to the table.

Are you ready to bring your talent and passion to dentsu? Apply now and be part of a team that is innovating to impact!

Location:

Sandton

Brand:

Dentsu

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent