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EPITEC is hiring: Public Relations Communications Specialist in P...
EPITEC - Plano, TX, United States, 75086
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Top Three Skills:
- Proven experience in developing and executing PR strategies and plans that drive positive media coverage.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction, demonstrating creative thinking and a solution-oriented mindset.
- Excellent time management, organizational, and project management skills.
Education and Years of Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree with directly related experience in booth design, hospitality expertise preferred.
- 5-7 years of experience.
Role Overview: The PR Manager of Mobile eXperience (MX) Public Relations will lead the creation and implementation of communications programs and initiatives to drive awareness for Samsung’s related mobile product services offerings in the US, including Samsung Wallet, Samsung Health initiative, and Galaxy Ecosystem. The PR Manager must possess strategic and creative communication acumen and operational expertise to ensure impactful PR campaigns that amplify the services, products, and brand.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute PR strategies and plans for the Mobile eXperience team product services and initiatives, including Samsung Wallet, Samsung Health initiative, and Galaxy Ecosystem.
- Lead day-to-day management of key external partners.
- Build and own relationships with top-tier, influential consumer tech and lifestyle media.
- Identify interesting story angles about the full mobile ecosystem and secure stories that have high potential to attract strong media coverage.
- Take an open-ended mandate and give it analysis and structure, culminating in a concrete set of PR objectives and a clear way to achieve them.
- Collaborate with global Samsung offices and business groups in Korea and the US.
- Provide support/management of outside agencies.
- Monitor, analyze, and communicate PR results on a daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
This is a fast-paced environment with a great mix of strategic planning, rapid execution, and a bit of hustle!
Minimum Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in marketing, communications, or business management.
- 5-7 years of experience.
- Ability to work independently with minimal direction, demonstrating creative thinking and a solution-oriented mindset.
- Extremely organized with the ability to manage complex logistics.
- Excellent time management and project management skills.
- Consummate collaborator committed to communication excellence.
- Ability to think quickly and make decisions, sometimes without all the necessary information.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to interact at all levels within internal and external organizations.
- Ability to negotiate with and convince others, in a potentially adversarial environment, including partner relations, leadership, directors, and managers with opposing views to accept/approve plans, technical and project recommendations.
- Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize multiple strategic programs and simultaneous performance objectives.
- Ability to write, read, interpret, explain, and act based on a thorough understanding of technical documents, engineering materials, and contracts or related documents.
- Ability to make professional business presentations in writing, through email, reports, or orally, including complex business and technical matters to an audience of high technical skills, management, and operational experience.
- Ability to support a cross-functional Samsung team to achieve customer contracted objectives and specific team goals within established time frames and requirements.