Location:Courbevoie, FR, 92400

Function: Communication

Employment type: Full Time

Required experience: Experienced - over 5 years

Reference ID: 76587

VP Group Communication

• The rebirth of the brand which has accelerated since 2021
• Capitalize on and leverage our current international reputation

• Define and put in place the communication strategy at Group and country levels.
• Structure, manage the teams to address the different topics bearing in mind the international presence of the group.
• Ensure that the communication strategy he/she has defined, tools and events are supporting the company’s business objectives related to production, growth, profitability, and management.
• Ensure that Communication is integrated early in all decisive processes and follow them through the whole value chain. He/she will recommend the necessary internal tools and expertise and makes appropriated external key network.
• Manage, challenge the different agencies Nexans is working with, put in place a performance approach. Manage appropriately the budget.
• Restore trust, confidence in the role by his/her commitment, legitimacy, and managerial posture. It is key also that he/she builds a team around his/her strategy, animates the Editorial/communication community in the regions.
• Be seen as a trusted advisor/ referent on Communication topics by the group and external stakeholders.

• Refocus the function on its strategic missions.
• Design and deploy a clear editorial strategy and equity story around the new Group strategy.
• Modernize the function and its operating model, works on the digitalization, develop social media, digital media … increase the presence of Nexans on the digital eco-system.
• Responsibility for the company’s reputation management.

• Internal communication, ensure that all messages are clearly displayed and targeted, reinforce the consistency of internal communications, …
• Public relations and Press: identify priorities and develop the adequate external communication strategy; strengthen Nexans’ image and reputation to all stakeholders, constantly review, challenges agencies, develop close collaboration with regional communication managers to support them.
• Digital external communication: drive an e-business strategy in line with group’s business objectives. • Social media strategy and community management: reinforce the team, participate to the elaboration of the social media strategy
• Crisis management: in collaboration with Legal department, ensure that appropriate plans are developed.
• Put in place KPIs to manage the different objectives.

• A corporate team
• A communication network into the Business Groups with one Internal communication manager among main geographies: NAM, SAM, APAC, Europe (except France covered by the Corporate Communication VP). This is a key function in the equity story of Nexans, it is thus critical that the future incumbent can “operate” the role and position himself/herself as business partner and legitimate advisor on communication topics.

• Good academic education background giving to the candidate synthesis skills, excellent level of communication both written and spoken in English.
• Circa 15 and more years of experience and more as number one or number two (according to the size of the group) of corporate communication in an international environment.

• Someone who embodies E3 (criteria Nb 1)
• Strategic, understands business priorities.
• Extrovert person :
  • Strong influencing and convincing skills, experienced in managing different public/stakeholders and opinion leaders.
  • Presence, professional legitimacy, recognized by his/her peers.
• Modern, new media intelligence.
• Agility, curiosity, creativity
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to meet deadlines consistently
• Smart, astute, able to manage ambiguity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Management and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage teams both direct and functional.
• Autonomous, ability to create, implement a strategy and manage a budget