Communications Manager
Role Overview
The role covers communications for Ninety One's institutional and wholesale audiences across national and international media.
The supplied description ends mid-sentence while discussing extending the reach of media content; further role details may be omitted.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Ninety One
Ninety One is an independent global active asset manager, established in South Africa in 1991 and demerged from Investec Group in 2020.
The firm's stated capabilities include fixed income and credit, specialist equities, emerging markets, and the energy transition.
Global Marketing team
The team develops research, client notes, video and audio content, presentations, sales collateral, RFPs, and digital properties, and manages marketing technology.
The team helps build valuable client relationships across the firm's segments and geographies.
Communications responsibilities
- Develop media strategies and pitch press releases, content, commentary, and creative strategies across investment capabilities and themes.
- Build the external profiles of executives and investment professionals and secure high-quality media coverage.
- Develop journalist relationships across business media, financial trades, newswires, and broadcast outlets.
- Translate investment views and complex market information into clear, compelling narratives for institutional and wholesale audiences.
- Coordinate with internal marketing, product, digital, business development, and local teams on consistent communications.
- Monitor news and industry trends to identify media opportunities and support investment professionals' commentary.
- Manage media enquiries, coordinate responses, and prepare spokespeople for interviews with briefings and key messages.
- Coordinate external PR agencies across markets and align their work with global priorities and local media opportunities.
- Track communications activity, coverage, and outcomes and provide regular reporting.
- Use social media to amplify earned media and investment content; contribute to a weekly LinkedIn media wrap.
Role context
The role covers communications for Ninety One's institutional and wholesale audiences across national and international media.
The supplied description ends mid-sentence while discussing extending the reach of media content; further role details may be omitted.
Requirements
- The role calls for understanding investment capabilities across public and private markets and the wider market, economic, and geopolitical environment.
- Ability to translate complex investment thinking into clear, compelling, newsworthy narratives for institutional and wholesale audiences.
- Ability to build relationships with journalists and coordinate communications across internal teams and external PR agencies.
- Ability to prepare investment professionals and senior executives for media engagements with briefing materials, key messages, and interview preparation.
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