Communication Lead

2 months ago

Sydney, Australia Westpac Banking Corporation Full time

Communication Lead

**Role - Communication Lead**
- Permanent opportunity
- Hybrid Working Model
- Sydney based role currently 3 days per week in office
- Seeking passionate Communication Lead to support Westpac Group's HR strategic priorities

**How will I help?**

Our Communication Leads within Corporate Affairs are accountable for providing strategic corporate communications support, enabling divisions of Westpac as directed (which may include HR, Risk, Finance, Customer & Corporate Services, Technology and Legal). This role will see you working at a senior level to provide strategic corporate communications counsel predominantly focussing on HR and HR Projects.

We're looking for a communications professional to help support our senior leaders craft and deliver messages to connect and empower their teams. You will play a crucial role in lifting employee engagement and supporting our business with new initiatives and campaigns.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Developing and delivering end-to-end corporate affairs strategies to support business objectives and employee engagement.
- Providing trusted reputational counsel to the business and its leaders, effectively identifying, mitigating, and managing reputation risks and issues.
- Providing measurement and insights on the outcomes of communication strategies and identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness.
- Developing creative communication campaigns, based on wide and deep knowledge of business needs, with considering of both internal and external requirements.
- Management of internal All Ins and events, producing written and video communication materials with the aim of achieving key strategic business outcomes.
- Work with Group Media, Reputation and Government Affairs teams as well as senior stakeholders across the Group on initiatives as required that benefit or protect the reputation of the company and its people.

**What's in it for me?**

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**
- Significant (10years plus) experience in corporate communications (public relations or in-house positions).
- Successful track record of working within large organisations with complex reputation issues.
- Experience in all aspects of corporate communications - issues and crisis management, media, stakeholder engagement, reputation management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication ability.
- Advanced ability to negotiate and influence across senior stakeholders.
- Ability to build and manage strong relationships with senior executives and a range of stakeholders and business partners.
- Strategic thinking, flexibility, ability to respond to short deadlines, operates independently and effectively in an unstructured work environment.
- Ability to proactively identify issues before they arise and develop strategies to minimise reputational risk for the Group.
- Strong creativity and ability to develop communications and events that engage employees.
- Tertiary degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing or Digital Media.
- Good level of commercial awareness and understanding of Westpac Group's business strategy.

**If you are a proactive and driven team player with proven ability to collaborate with others and drive ideas to deliver outstanding results, then we would love to hear from you**

**What's it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We'll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

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