Job Title: Communications executiveJoin our vibrant communications team and help us become Europe’s best-loved hotel company! You'll support PR campaigns, craft press releases, manage media enqu...
Job Title: Communications executive
Join our vibrant communications team and help us become Europe’s best-loved hotel company! You'll support PR campaigns, craft press releases, manage media enquiries, uncover great stories, and use social media insights to enhance our reputation.
This varied role includes collaborating across Premier Inn, hub hotels, and restaurant brands, plus occasional events, reporting, and administrative tasks. You’ll also be part of the 24/7 on-call rota (1–2 weeks per month).
Salary: £30,000 + 10% company performance bonus
Location: London or Dunstable and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.
Why You’ll Love It Here
- Healthcare: Individual & Family BUPA healthcare
- 10% matched pension
- Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand
Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/
What You Would Be Doing
As part of our high-performing external communications team, you’ll play a vital role in supporting a variety of communications activities designed to help us achieve our ambition of becoming Europe’s best-loved hotel company. You’ll have the opportunity to work on a range of exciting tasks, including:
- PR Campaign Delivery: Contributing to campaign planning and attending events like content capture days.
- Storytelling: Discovering stories across the business, such as those from our Force for Good programme, and tailoring them for different audiences.
- Press Releases: Researching, writing, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure our key messages are effectively communicated.
- Activity Reporting: Preparing campaign summaries and monthly reports to showcase our PR efforts.
- Social Media Insights: Using monitoring tools to understand real-time guest conversations and occasionally generating story ideas.
What You Will Need:
Essential:
- Ability and willingness to travel as needed.
- Content capture skills, such as filming and editing videos.
- Outstanding people skills and the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the business and with external stakeholders.
- Good understanding of social media channels.
- Interest in current affairs and the news agenda.
- Understanding of the need for discretion in handling sensitive issues.
Be part of our Commercial Team at Whitbread
Our brands speak for themselves, but that’s down to the work that our Marketing team put in. Creativity and innovation allow us to elevate our brands, gain new guests and keep our regulars coming back for more. From producing branded adverts that showcase our ever-changing hotel rooms, right through to promoting new launches, B2B and collaborating with Media agencies to deliver different digital campaigns, you’ll be there using insight, data and strategy to get our brands noticed.
We encourage your application. Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcomes your application whatever your background or situation.
Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQIA+ community (those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary or those who use a different LGBTQIA+ term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. Speak to us about workplace adjustments, part-time and flexible working. Where possible we will support this.
Job ref: 42064-4492
Advertised: 15 Jan 2025
