Sr Communications & Media Manager

About The Role

As a CBRE Communications & Media Sr. Manager, you will oversee the team responsible for providing communication and media support to high-profile departments, clients, and organizational areas. This role is part of the Communications job function.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees.
• Monitor the training and development of staff.
• Conduct performance evaluations and coaching.
• Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Cross-train staff and assign tasks.
• Set and track staff and department deadlines.
• Mentor and coach as needed.
• Drive the development and delivery of communications, including content and media strategies.
• Act as a media contact and build long-term relationships with influencers.
• Negotiate with media channels and have full ownership of the budget.
• Review and approve all internal and external communication plans.
• Manage social media profiles and presence.
• Stay up to date on the current media marketplace and trends.
• Develop and conduct social media training.
• Partner with key stakeholders and executive management on short and long-term projects.
• Create and track performance metrics and campaign outcomes.
• Ensure that key messages align with company values and goals.
• Review data collected from interviews, surveys, and brainstorming sessions.
• Distribute high-profile press releases, pitch breaking news stories, and coordinate, and prep speakers for important interviews.
• Stay up to date on the current marketplace and trends.
• Learn new programs, technology, and software and introduce them to the department as needed.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values.
• Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
• Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
• Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience.
• In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
• Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Working understanding of SharePoint.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.