France Communications and PR Manager

**What You'll Do**

You will work in partnership with all communications functions, business leaders and marketing including the France leadership team and the France General Manager.

The success of this role requires the ability to balance several priorities. It requires you to prioritise and focus on the areas where communications can have the biggest impact and demonstrate tangible results around influencing audience’s perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours.

**Some of your responsibilities**:

- Translate business goals into communications objectives, understand and influence audience perceptions.
- Design and drive communications programmes that help position the company’s relevance and advance its thought leadership and innovation profile.
- You will build executive speaker messaging and platforms that position the company and the speaker as true thought leaders within a competitive market.
- You will be responsible for scaling, amplifying and building stories in line with Cisco’s key business and technology narratives, and with local relevance.
- You will drive regular planning and reporting meetings. You will track and report success metrics and use the data to continually improve communications programmes. You will socialise communications plans and results with key business stakeholders.
- You will need to have a deep understanding of the French media and social media landscape, excellent contacts with technology, national and business publications as well as key social/online influencers; with the ability to provide counsel to the wider communications organisation, marketing, and business colleagues.
- You will manage the PR agency against results, and ensure the agency becomes a trusted extended part of the team.
- You will build and maintain strong working relationships across the EMEA and Global Comms Organisation.
- You will balance the requirements of being an active member of the EMEA communications team and helping to drive the team’s joint success whilst driving the success of the France communications programmes.
- You will be an active member of the EMEA Communications leadership team and help drive the team’s joint success whilst driving the success of communications locally.

**Who you are**
- You are a seasoned communications leader with 8-10 years of direct PR and communications experience.
- You have experience as a people leader.
- You have experience with executive and employee communications.
- You have experience of working in an international/multinational company.
- You have strong interpersonal skills, intuitive ability to read people, influence where appropriate and execute when necessary.
- You bring solid project management skills with the ability to meet milestones, tight deadlines, and balance concurrent projects
- You are a flexible and resilient problem solver with the ability to gain consensus among others and manage sensitive situations.
- You can navigate a complex and international environment.
- Track record of having worked in an IT company is helpful, not a requirement.

**Who You'll Work With**

We are a team of communicators driven by a purpose to create the most impactful stories, shape perceptions and enable strategic conversations amongst our audiences. We lead with empathy, clarity and trust. Together, we create a safe space to share, learn and break new ground, to perform at our best. You will work closely with the business leaders of France, as well as marketing, communications and other support functions and global communications teams to craft and drive outcome-based communications programmes.

**Why Cisco**

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. We Are Cisco.

U.S. employees have **access** to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

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