Senior Communications Advisor

Subsea7 is seeking a Senior Communications Advisor to join our team in Suresnes, France, on a staff basis.

Reporting into the Communications Manager of the Global Projects Centre East (or GPC East, comprising our offices and operations in Africa, France, Portugal, Middle East, Asia, Australia, and the Mediterranean), the successful candidate will lead Subsea7 France office internal communications and will support external communications for Africa, Middle East and the Mediterranean.

What will you be doing?

• Lead the planning and roll out of Subsea7 France internal communications and events.
• Actively participate in the planning and support the roll out of GPC East Communications Plan and regional initiatives such as events, campaigns, and content production.
• Support the planning, follow up, and roll out of Africa, Middle East and Mediterranean external communication plan (part of the main GPC East External Comms Plan).
• Work closely and collaboratively with GPC East Management Team, HR Director for France, GPC East Sales & Marketing and HR departments, besides Communications Department in GPC West.
• Be a Subsea7 brand ambassador, by understanding our branding and making sure your internal clients follow our guidelines.
• Understand and embed Subsea7’s employer value proposition and culture (Being7) and Subsea7 strategy (Make Possible) in all convenient projects and initiatives.
• Give visibility to all activities from the French office in all Subsea7 internal communication channels (intranet, Viva Engage, emails, newsletter, etc.) and social media (LinkedIn, Instagram) when convenient.
• Promote GPC East projects and initiatives you are responsible for both internally and externally
• Be the Comms Lead for the French office Emergency Response (ER).
• Work with group internal and external communication teams on brand management and communication campaigns.
• Act as the point of contact for Communication in France, and for External Communication in Africa, Middle East and the Mediterranean.
• To propose and support the delivery of regional communications campaigns to increase the visibility of the region and the Company as a place to work.
• Ensure the work scope is collaboratively aligned with wider group internal and external communications plans.

What experience would we like you to have?

Please note, if you don’t tick all the boxes below but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying. We would encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience.

• You will have excellent written and verbal communications skills in French and in English with experience in the development of compelling employee messaging.
• Demonstrable experience in communications development across multiple platforms.
• Strong attention to detail and capable of creating engaging content suitable for a diverse range of platforms.
• Experience in using data to analyze current practice and promote future recommendations and solutions.
• The ability to work across all levels of the organization and develop positive working relationships.
• Ability to Influence to encourage adoption of new ideas and ways of working.
• Internationally and culturally aware and sensitive.
• Creative and innovative, with drive to learn and develop both yourself, and ways of working.
• Previous external communication and Emergency Response experience is desirable.
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of Adobe Creative (Photoshop, Premiere, InDesign and Illustrator) is also desirable.

What do we offer?

• Career development – with access to a range of learning and development opportunities, as well as being part of a culture that encourages growth and development.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave/adoption leave
• A fantastic benefits package – which includes a generous holiday allowance, pension scheme, discounted health and wellbeing packages, electric car salary sacrifice scheme and more.

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