Position: Corporate Communications Manager – Insights

Career Level: Manager

Location: Ireland

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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The Insights team is part of Corporate Communications’ broader Strategy & Insights (S&I) group — a global function responsible for

developing a unified, data-driven earned media strategy aligned to Accenture’s business priorities.

S&I partners closely with Media Relations, Marketing, and Communications colleagues across all markets to ensure that programs are

strategically planned, thoughtfully measured, and continuously optimized. The team includes Insights, Media Strategy & Planning, Investor

Relations, Issues Management and CEO Positioning.

YOUR ROLE

As the Insights lead for EMEA, you will translate communications strategy into actionable reporting, analysis, and insights. You will serve as a

strategic partner to Media Relations colleagues across the region — helping them define what success looks like, understand performance

drivers, and apply insights to strengthen planning, storytelling, and execution.

You will also collaborate with global Insights teammates to ensure alignment on methodologies, tools, taxonomies, and best practices. A

strong sense of curiosity, critical thinking, and relationship building will be essential, along with a passion for uncovering the “why” behind the

data.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Insight & Reporting Leadership:

• Serve as the primary Insights partner for EMEA, managing requests, shaping reporting approaches, and recommending the right tools, methodologies, and metrics.

• Build and execute reporting using our media and social listening platforms; ensure search logic, Boolean queries, and taxonomies are optimized for accurate measurement.

• Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives that help teams understand performance, identify opportunities, and

make informed decisions.

Regional Partnership & Enablement:

• Partner with Comms leads across EMEA markets to meet local needs while maintaining consistency with global measurement practices.

• Educate media teams on how to interpret data, ask the right questions, and use insights to guide planning and campaign refinement.

• Provide ongoing counsel on media evaluation, benchmarking, and measurement best practices.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

• Work closely with global and regional S&I colleagues to refine tools, processes, and reporting frameworks.

• Identify gaps or opportunities for improved reporting, new metrics, or better storytelling techniques.

• Support ad hoc data and insight needs for priority campaigns, research launches, acquisitions, and executive positioning efforts.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

• Significant years of experience in communications, media, insights, or research roles.

• Experience working with qualitative and quantitative data to develop insights.

• Strong written communication skills and the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable takeaways.

• Proven ability to collaborate across time zones and matrixed teams.

• Demonstrated ability to build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders.

PREFERRED SKILLS

Media & Insights Expertise:

• Strong understanding of the global and EMEA news landscape; regular consumer of local and international news.

• Experience with media monitoring or social listening tools (e.g., Meltwater, Cision, Factiva, Brandwatch, Sprinklr), including Boolean query building.

Analytical Strength

• Ability to identify patterns, interpret trends, and apply sound business judgment.

• Experience in data visualization, insight storytelling, and building reports from the ground up for senior audiences.

• Communication & Leadership

• Confident communicator with the ability to present findings to small and large groups.

• Comfort engaging with senior leaders and providing strategic counsel.

• Ability to guide and support other team members; strong leadership presence for a CL7 role.

Mindset & Ways of Working:

• A proactive, self-directed problem solver with a “roll up your sleeves” attitude.

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving environment.

• Familiarity with LLMs and AI-powered tools (e.g., Copilot, Perplexity, ChatGPT) and ability to use them for research, analysis, or workflow optimization.

• Extremely detail oriented with strong organizational and multitasking abilities.

TRAVEL

• None expected.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Must be able to flex occasionally for global meetings across time zones (team leads primarily in Eastern and Central US time

with colleagues across APAC).

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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