External Communication Senior Consultant
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Jul 28, 2019
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- Category
- Marketing / Communications
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Department Summary
Be passionate. Be a leader. Most importantly do meaningful work.
Were looking for a communications professional who can take projects and run with them, has a knack for distilling complex info into understandable and engaging messaging, can strike the right balance between strategic and creative thinking, and is comfortable working with leaders at all levels. Are you up to the challenge?
The Team:
In Corporate Relations, we:
- Tell Allstates iconic story and bring the voice of Allstate to life through internal and external strategic communications.
- Know the business and work closely with leaders to strengthen Allstates reputation, strategy and culture.
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Provide world-class communications counsel to advance issues and initiatives important to our stakeholders employees, customers, consumers, agency force, investors, policy makers and opinion leaders.
We connect our stakeholders to Allstate and to each other, build and protect our brand, and get the word out about ways that Allstate helps people live a good life every day. We do this by providing our expertise in executive positioning, internal communications, media relations, reputation management, issues and crisis management, thought leadership and advocacy, strategic business counsel, employee engagement and culture, corporate social responsibility and financial communications.
We are a group of talented, creative, passionate and strategic individuals who work together to achieve our common goals. We are research-based, outcomes-driven and business-focused, and dedicated to professional development at all levels.
Job Description
This role will mimic a media relations guru at a PR agency finding story ideas within the business and creating a vision for sharing those stories with consumers through national media outlets. Youll connect with national reporters and producers and maintain those relationships to help tell our stories.
If you ever wanted to know what it would look like to work for an 88-year-old startup backed by the legacy of a major brand, this is it. Were aggressive, tenacious pursuers of media to help tell our proactive story of innovation and protection on behalf of our customers. From drones to artificial intelligence and the future of personal transportation, we have great stories to engage consumers. Plus, feature stories to share how much we care about our local communities. Yes, at an insurance company.
Maintaining relationships will be key and youll have the freedom to create those connections. Sure, theres some news release writing involved, but not nearly as much as there used to be. Were storytellers and we want someone who is ready to help jump in and build our story with us engage senior leaders and facilitate media interviews to land national coverage. Are you in?
Responsibilites:
- Make and maintain relationships with national media contacts.
- Find and promote stories from within the business to share externally.
- Think strategically about stories that show us as a caring company.
- Collaborate with social media team and consumer marketing divisions to build surround-sound communication plans that showcase Allstate as an innovative and caring company.
- Listen and learn about multiple business units and new products or services, then translate that into messages that speak to the consumer benefits.
- Be nimble, on-the-go and ready at any minute to pivot when necessary to achieve success on a deadline.
Job Qualifications
- Five years of previous public relations experience, including direct contact with media including pitching, writing, interview coaching. On-camera spokesperson skills preferred.
- Media Relations: 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.
- Journalism Background: Previous experience in a corporate or agency environment, or experience as a reporter or producer, with proven success in pitching story ideas and moving them to publication.
- Writing: Knowledge and application of the Associated Press Style Guide to prepare error-free communications.
- Creative Thinking: Generates innovative solutions to achieve business outcomes. Finds story ideas out of complex topics with an ability to retell the story to a mass audience.
- Presentation Skills: Delivers presentations effectively and with confidence. Ability to think and perform spontaneously.
Education:
Bachelors degree in journalism, communications, marketing or related field.
In Corporate Relations, our backgrounds range from journalism to business, from strategic philanthropy to academia, and from research to education. All have thrived in a collaborative environment where they learned from each other.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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.
Learn more about life at Allstate. Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn or watch a video.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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