Senior External Affairs Manager bei My Talent

Job Title: Senior External Affairs Manager
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Secondment, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £65,600 - £98,400
Location: Eastleigh - Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: Tuesday 18th November

Hiring Manager: Natalie Shale

Senior External Affairs Manager: We are looking for a Senior External Affairs Manager to protect and enhance Ageas’s reputation by leading external affairs activity across media, stakeholder engagement, and issues management. The role supports strategic communications and crisis response, ensuring timely, accurate and consistent messaging across the organisation and externally.

Main Responsibilities as Senior External Affairs Manager:

• Partner with the Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability to develop and implement strategies that address live and emerging issues affecting Ageas’s reputation.
• Proactively monitor external developments, particularly digital and media activity, to identify potential risks and devise mitigation strategies.
• Identify and manage thought leadership opportunities for senior leaders, including speaking engagements, authored content, and media commentary.
• Act as a senior spokesperson and primary media contact, including during weekends and crisis situations, ensuring 24/7 media access and rapid response.
• Design, implement and optimise communication systems and processes to ensure rapid, consistent and accurate information flow across the organisation.

Skills and experience you need as Senior External Affairs Manager:

• Strong experience in understanding media and public affairs with ability to identify and build new contacts.
• Excellent media relations skills including drafting and editing content, and dealing with journalists’ queries, confidently acting as a spokesperson.
• Confident communicator with strong writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to use clear language to explain often complex issues.
• Effective influencing and networking skills, able to liaise, coach and advice people at all levels and from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• A good networker, able to quickly develop a wide internal and external network of contacts and establish trust.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas: 

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities –  Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

 About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.

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Important Notice – Recruitment Scam Alert: We are aware of fraudulent activity whereby individuals are being contacted with fake job offers claiming to be from Ageas, often for remote roles such as Administrative Assistants. These scams may include offers of high hourly pay and requests for upfront payments or deposits. Please be aware that Ageas will never ask for money at any stage of the recruitment process. Ageas will always ask you to make an application via our Company Websites and all legitimate Ageas job opportunities are listed on our official careers pages within. Communication will only come from verified Ageas email addresses and if you are unsure about the legitimacy of a job offer or communications you are receiving, please contact [email protected] with the subject FRAUD.