Corporate Communications Executive

We have a great opportunity for a Corporate Communications Executive to join our Corporate Communications team. This role is based in Birmingham and sits within our Business Development team. As a Corporate Communications Executive, you will be responsible for supporting internal client groups to meet their business objectives with a particular focus on traditional PR and media responsibilities working to deliver outstanding media relations results for the firm.

Within this role you will be require the ability to produce a high volume of excellent written copy, often to tight deadlines, detailed proofreading, project support and outstanding client handling skills. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain the team's high standards of technical and service excellence., We are looking for someone who is educated to degree level or equivalent experience, with an understanding of the strategic value of communications. Within this role you will work with a variety of individuals and therefore you will be required to be a self-motivated team player used to working under pressure from multiple clients and delivering excellent client service. To succeed in this role, you will be required to have a strong interest in current affairs and the daily news agenda, presenting creative thinking and outstanding writing skills, with faultless grammar and spelling, continually looking to improve knowledge in the relevant areas. The role requires the ability to produce a high volume of excellent media materials and coverage - often to tight deadlines and therefore proven experience of securing coverage in national broadsheet and broadcast media is desirable.

The opportunity to work within a strong and supportive BD function and with dynamic partners and lawyers in high profile areas of the firm. Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 24 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave.
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
• A generous pension allowance.
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years.
• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave schemes.
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
• Offices in Birmingham city centre or in London overlooking Tower Bridge, both with onsite restaurants.
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Equal Opportunities: Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity, and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.