PR Manager France

Description

Why join us?

As BlaBlaCar pursues its ambitious development in France, we are looking for a Press Relations Manager to join the local France & Benelux team. You will be joining a very skilled and motivated team of people, whose goal is to accelerate BlaBlaCar's growth in France & Benelux.

As the Press Relations Manager, you will be in charge of:

Defining the French PR strategy and handling relations with journalists in order to support BlaBlaCar communication through French media. You will also support interactions with leading anglo-saxon corporate media, and BlaBlaCar Founders’ participations at conferences (in France and Europe). Finally, as the PR Manager in BlaBlaCar’s headquarters, you will be the point of contact to synchronise local PR managers on key corporate messages across our international offices.

You will directly report to the Country Manager France & Benelux, in addition to very regular interactions with Head of Corporate Communication and BlaBlaCar’s Founders.

WHAT YOU WILL DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE TO :

• Defining our French PR strategy;

• Positioning of announcements and writing of press releases;

• Building and maintaining relationships with corporate media (French & anglo-saxon), and consumer media (French only).

• Managing incoming calls from journalists;;

• Proactively pushing messages through different kinds of media (corporate, consumer…)

• Organizing TV/Radio reports and interviews for Founders;

• Taking care of interviewees media training and Q/A draft;

• Updating our BlaBlaCar Newsroom;

• Organizing press conferences

• Selecting and managing our PR agency (FR & Belgium) and exchanging with the anglo-saxon PR agency (managed by the Head of Corporate Communications).

• Monitoring of media coverage in France;

• Newswatching - mobility / tech scene / local news which could have impacts on BlaBlaCar

• Reporting on PR results and impact (benchmarking on PR tools)