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Introduction

IBM is seeking a motivated and experienced external relations professional to join its global issues and crisis communications team. This position, based in London, will play a central role in addressing important communications priorities for one of the world's most recognized and respected brands, with emphasis on identifying, planning for and managing sensitive issues and reputational threats.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Coordinate across IBM business units and global geographies, as well as with outside agencies and advisors, to rapidly develop communications strategies and long-term issue management plans.

• Prioritize critical, high-risk situations and rapidly assemble the proper cross-functional teams to respond appropriately to both internal and external stakeholder groups.

• Provide strategic guidance to senior leaders throughout the organization on how best to triage nascent issues, and how best to respond rapidly to fast-breaking developments.

• Utilize data-centric tracking tools to standardize measurement of potential and ongoing issues, and provide real-time insight into reach and impact of rapidly developing crisis situations. Compile and distribute media and social impact reports to key internal and executive audiences.

• Stay up to date on reoccurring problematic narratives in the broader social dialogue, identify developments that could have an impact on the company, and formulate and suggest risk mitigation strategies where warranted.

• Work in close coordination with other members of the policy and issues communications team based in Washington, DC and New York to stay up to date on top of mind issues and priorities.

• Archive communications plans, external statements, and status of their use in an organized and easy to reference format.

• Serve as a key partner to communications colleagues worldwide to ensure effective global implementation of crisis mitigation and response, and work with these groups to implement best practices.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Significant communications, public relations or public affairs / media or social/digital communications experience.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent command of written and spoken English, other languages a definite plus.

• Proven track record of engaging media and influencers to successfully manage or eliminate potential reputational threats.

• Keen understanding of media, social and global political dynamics, and proven ability to work seamlessly with reporters.

• Proven ability to develop communications plans and implement effectively across teams, functions and geographies.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in a corporate setting working with teams across time zones.

• Deep understanding of emerging technology, workforce operations, and complex business environments.

• Prior experience managing multiple projects at once and effectively prioritizing highest risk/highest impact issues.

• Ability to simplify complex issues into a clear and concise format.

About Business UnitIBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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