Senior Communications Strategist

Role/Responsibilities
The Senior Communications Strategist will develop and execute communications plans and content, acting as a business partner to stakeholders across the company. As a member of the Americas Regional Communications team you will focus on strategic media relations and content development, specifically covering the high profile corporate content and campaigns.
The ideal candidate should be confident and accustomed to working with senior management, skilled in relationships management with analysts and journalists, have the proven capability to develop and execute effective media promotion strategies.

Core responsibilities include:

• Contributing and executing various Communications campaigns, both ad-hoc and ongoing. Assists with key project milestones, meeting proper timelines and working with business partners.
• Providing communications support to the Corporate analytical teams within Moody’s.
• Developing and maintaining effective business relationships with contacts in print, online and broadcast media.
• Effective management and development of business partner relationships.
• Help create high impact promotional content that will anchor communications initiatives and campaigns. Assist posting content on internal and external channels, including social media, press releases, intranet.
• Monitoring the news identifying and executing opportunities to insert our views in relevant news cycles.
• Monitor pressline and mailbox responding to media inquiries and facilitating access to analysts and subject matter experts.
• Coordinating and partnering with global communication counterparts on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or journalism or other related field.
• 5 – 7 years of work experience in a media relations or journalism role, preferably in financial services.
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Sharp attention to detail; and the ability to prioritize and manage a variety of tasks simultaneously under time pressure while exercising sound but swift judgement.
• Well-developed IT skills including use of Microsoft Office and media database applications.
• Must be professional, creative, extremely organized, enthusiastic and flexible team player who can work independently.

https://careers.moodys.com/job/16140847/senior-communications-strategist-new-york-ny/

Great opportunity to work with Moody’s Corporation!  Please reach out to me with any questions – jackie.gulley@moodys.com