Communications Specialist

**Job no**: 997425
**Work type**: Full-Time
**Location**: Melbourne - CBD & Inner
**Categories**: Communications

**_Country Road Group (CRG) is embarking on transformation to position itself for growth, leveraging our scale, capabilities and culture as a House of Brands. We are investing in new and existing capabilities and have a number of exciting opportunities available._**

As a member of the communications team, the Communications Specialist will contribute to delivering of the Country Road Group communications strategy and our priority to build a winning culture. Reporting into the Group Head of Communications, this role sees you flexing your skills as a comms all-rounder working across a mix of internal and external comms, digital, events, change and issues management as we build the comms function together.

As a highly organised, curious and proactive self-starter, you’ll have an opportunity to work across our business and iconic brands, to build engagement, drive leadership, enable change and build a winning culture. With autonomy to lead your own projects, build partnerships and plenty of room to grow, you’ll be backed by a supportive leader, great team and endless opportunity to shape this role as your own.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Lead and maintain our communications channels including Workplace, intranet, LinkedIn and corporate website.
- Lead our Digital Channel (internal social media platform) strategy to implement a new dynamic communication platform that drives engagement, collaboration, multi-directional storytelling and innovation
- Proactively lead content ideation and creation for our Culture Campaign
- Lead our content strategy and calendar to leverage the great stories across our business that amplify our culture of One Team, Courageously Curious and Driven by Purpose
- Partner with our PR and marketing teams to align on content and experience opportunities across our channels.
- Partner with our People team on communications that help to build a winning culture
- Lead our calendar of weekly experiences to develop events that highlight our priorities and celebrate our Country Road Group lifestyle
- Support the delivery of our big comms moments, including CRG Connect and Senior Leadership Community
- Support issues management across our brands and teams

**Key Capabilities**
- Communications background and experience in internal communications in the consumer industry, ideally fashion or retail.
- Sound knowledge and experience using Workplace and/or other digital employee experience platforms
- Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced organisation and an innovative, pro-active and creative approach
- A strong background in planning and delivering communications including written communications, maintaining channels, managing events and creating interesting content including, video.

**Why work for CRG?**

The Country Road Group is one of Australasia’s largest Lifestyle Brand Houses comprising of iconic brands such as Country Road, POLITIX, Trenery, Witchery and MIMCO. Here are some of the great things we offer:

- Generous employee discounts across our House of Brands
- Seasonal clothing allowance
- An additional day of leave for your birthday
- An Industry leading Parental Leave Program
- Flexible working arrangements to support work/life balance
- Annual learning calendar to support the ongoing development of our team
- Support community partnerships across our Corporate Social Responsibility Program
- We are committed to operating ethically, sustainably, and responsibly.

**About CRG**

Country Road Group is Australia's largest Lifestyle Brand Houses comprising of iconic brands including Country Road, POLITIX, Trenery, Witchery and MIMCO. Our Values include being Customer Obsessed, Collaborative, Inspirational, Responsible and Dedicated to Quality. We are looking for highly motivated and passionate individuals to be part of the Group’s evolution and support each brand to realise their full potential.

**Advertised**: 26 Feb 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 28 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time