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Job Description

Learn. Grow. Lead.

Corporate Relations has three overarching goals:

• Accelerate Allstates competitive advantage through reputation
• Increase confidence in Allstates business strategy
• Create a more purpose-driven culture.

To do this, we:

• Tell Allstates iconic story and bring the voice of Allstate to life through internal and external strategic communications.
• Know the business and help leaders strengthen Allstates reputation, strategy and culture.
• Connect our stakeholders to Allstate, build and protect our brand, and help people live a good life every day.
• Provide world-class insights and counsel to advance issues and initiatives important to Allstate through robust executive positioning, communications, media relations, reputation management, issues and crisis management, thought leadership and advocacy, strategic counsel, culture promotion, corporate social responsibility, financial communications, and program and project management.

Job Summary

Within Corporate Relations, the CEO Engagement team helps support the needs of the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Allstate. By facilitating events, communications and stakeholder relationships, we help build Allstates reputation, culture and deliver on our strategy. This role is a combination of executive positioning and media relations, focusing on supporting Allstates CEO. On our team, the Senior Consultant II is a key part of this work a writer, storyteller, media guru and thinker.

Key Responsibilities

Become an integral part of the CEO Stakeholder Engagement team by:

• Using your exceptional writing skills to help draft and edit communications and correspondence to and for high-level audiences.
• Developing and driving media strategy for the CEO stakeholder engagement team, building contacts and relationships with prominent journalists and media partners and helping facilitate team and executive interactions with media.
• Using your knowledge of resources and research to develop useful, thought-provoking background materials for executive use.
• Building relationships throughout the department and the company to help develop and tell stories, find information and use your influence for Good!
• Developing and editing press materials including press releases, key messages, pitches, fact sheets and interview Q&As.
• Collaborating with national and regional media teams to drive media interest for CEO thought leadership objectives.
• Understanding Allstates reputation, and how the CEO Engagement team helps build our reputation and our business.

Helping to plan and execute best in class communications plans and events to support our work.

Job Qualifications

Must have:

• 4-6 years of experience in communications, media relations, journalism or related field.
• Ability to work with news media outlets and social platforms to place stories that build and enhance a companys reputation. Understand when to involve others to mitigate issues that could negatively impact reputation.
• Exceptional writing skills, project management and time management skills and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to research a wide range of topics and ability to share that knowledge in writing through article summaries, thought starters and key messages.
• Be comfortable with change and ambiguity while maintaining your ability to get things done.
• Commitment to succeeding as a team and ability to jump in whenever and wherever help is needed.
• Bachelor degree required in related discipline.

Knowledge of financial services, innovation, transportation and/or data industries a plus.

Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.

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