Media and Public Relations Manager

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, Journalism, related field or equivalent. 

Experience: 8+ years of experience in corporate or agency public relations, and crisis communications required.  Proven examples of successful public relation campaigns preferred.

1. Demonstrated ability to develop and lead corporate public and media relations and corporate image programs in order to garner positive media coverage.
2. Crisis communications experience required, with crisis communications and media relations experience.
3. Superior verbal and written communication skills. 
4. Must demonstrate ability to draft and edit clean and concise press releases, media alerts, analysis, crisis responses, recommendations and other key documents. 
5. Must have strong presentation skills, as well as poise under high-pressure crisis situations.  Must be able to react credibly and effectively with sudden changes in media climate or crisis situations and effectively communicate with top management, international subsidiaries, media and the independent sales force.  
6. Excellent interpersonal skills, tact, diplomacy and a high level of professionalism.
7. Strong people management and budget skills in order to directly supervise experienced team members and outside PR counsel and their projects.  Requires ability to plan and orchestrate budgets for outside agency projects and provide concise, clearly defined objectives for Mary Kay projects and corporate image programs in order to execute a successful media campaign. 
8. Must be able to effectively juggle multiple tasks, projects and priorities while supervising experienced team members.
9. Strong business writing skills (business and AP style), plus proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  Ability to perform database searches is also important. 
10. Domestic and international travel up to 25%-35% of the time required. 

Company Overview

Looking for a career where you can make a difference? At Mary Kay we are committed to enriching the lives of women and their families around the world, we offer careers with unlimited opportunities to do something beautiful every day. More than 5,000 employees work in locations around the world. They provide the products, marketing and other support to millions of Independent Beauty Consultants (IBCs) who work as independent contractors, selling our products directly to consumers in nearly 40 markets on five continents.

We are a company that believes in our people and cares for them with truly exceptional benefits. We offer:

• A comprehensive health plan which includes medical, dental, and vision with low premiums
• 401(k) plan
• A generous profit-sharing program
• Free access to on-site fitness center and on-site clinic