Title: 4090: Media Relations Analyst

Role of the Agency Team

The Agency team supports all of Accenture media relations – across geographies, industries, functions and strategy and insights. Senior analysts on the team tell the Accenture story through multiple lenses and formats to help the company strengthen and advance its impact and growth in the marketplace. By supporting content development, market analysis and pitches, analysts help advance Marketing + Communications’ goals and serves as stewards of the highest editorial standards.

Position Description

The analyst Media Relations Corporate Communications person will help promote, protect, and defend the Accenture brand, with a focus on APAC (ANZ, India, SEA and Japan). The candidate is a highly motivated media relations professional with impeccable writing skills and a detail-oriented, proactive team player who possesses an ability to turn abstract and complicated issues and information into simple and powerful narratives.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with media team members in the Asia-Pacific region, client engagement teams and other relevant parties, as appropriate to support media pitching, planning and help shape ideas and narratives that align with Accenture’s strategic messages and themes.

• Support would include reporting and planning (such as preparing corporate communications calendars), media outreach and outcome tracking, creating and distributing coverage reports, and helping to prepare briefing documents for teams across the Asia-Pacific markets.

• Collaborate with media leads, industry marketing, client executives and other relevant parties to help develop content and lead timely responses to media requests.

• Ensure technical language is written in a clear and accessible manner.

• Monitor the competitive landscape for media mentions and share of voice, applying this knowledge to improve Accenture’s overall position in the industry.

• Uphold highest editorials standards and ensure application of Accenture style guide.

Preferred Experience

• One to three years of communications experience in English, including writing.

• Exposure to the technology industry.

Preferred Skills

• Japanese and English language skills

• Experience with media relations around brand, marketing, or journalism.

• Maintain a consistent level of high quality across all written work.

• Knowledge of core marketing communications and editorial essentials, including strategic message development, executive communications and AP style writing.

• Strong organizational skills, with ability to successfully manage multiple assignments simultaneously while collaborating with a team of marketing and communications professionals, including contractors and third-party vendors.

• Able to meet tight deadlines and adapt to changing timelines.

• Able to work effectively – and at speed – across functional and geographic groups.

• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting.

Considerations

• Flexibility to accommodate pre-scheduled global meetings, across all geographies.

To be filled by the recruiter

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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