Corporate Media Relations Specialist

This role has been designated as ‘Edge’, which means you will primarily work outside of an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. Diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves and, together, we are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

This is a rare opportunity to join HPE’s world-class Global Communications team. With more than 100 communicators across the globe, we advocate for HPE’s corporate strategy, business innovation, and thought leadership. We’re looking for a proactive, creative storyteller who has a passion for media relations and penchant for fomenting new and ongoing relationships with key stakeholders.

How You’ll Make Your Mark

In this Corporate Media Relations Specialist role, you will primarily help increase external awareness and understanding of the HPE story, including our company’s strategy, performance, and innovation. Reporting to our Senior Director of Corporate and Financial Communications, you’ll work in a close-knit team of well-regarded colleagues to support strategic public relations programming and the implementation of 360-degree communications plans.

In This Role You Will

Add your expertise to support our corporate media relations program and speakers bureau. The ideal candidate for this position will join our team with a superior writing background and prior experience working with media. We seek someone who bubbles with ideas for story themes as a voracious consumer of news, who can carefully research topics and quiz subject-matter experts to sharpen a good story pitch angle, and who can work collaboratively with colleagues from different parts of our Global Communications organization to build integrated communications plans.

HPE offers a diverse suite of customer offerings – across cloud, compute, storage, networking, supercomputing, and AI – each with its own unique story to tell. Your role will help us create even more meaningful engagement with our external audiences about how each of these businesses contribute to HPE’s strategy, performance, and innovation.

You’ll do well in this role if you have a growth mindset, a collaborative spirit, and a strong bias for action. The team you’ll join is high performing and offers many opportunities for stretch projects that add to overall career development and creating your own area of expertise.

Responsibilities For This Role Include

• Media Relations: Building strong media relationships with frequent outreach to journalists; continually monitoring business and financial press alongside industry news to identify and develop HPE media angles
• Relationship Management: Establishing solid relationships externally with key journalists at local, national, and international outlets and conference producers, as well as internally with key executives, Global Communications collaborators, and agency partners
• Project Management: Driving communications projects from conception to completion, utilizing organizational skills that ensure the ability to manage multiple tasks and simultaneous deadlines; partnering with colleagues to create compelling communication plans that address multiple stakeholder audiences
• Content Creation: Developing story angles and pitches; writing corporate articles and memos; drafting key messaging points, media materials, and briefing documents for executives
• Strategic Public Relations Programming: Contributing to program development and execution, including corporate announcements, trend pitches, media events, thought leadership, and executive visibility

About You

We are looking for someone who has:

• Flexibility to pivot to meet evolving business and communication program needs
• Ease of execution in seeing an initiative through from start to finish
• Superior writing and editing skills, requiring little line editing
• The ability to contribute to strategic communication plans and programs in a collaborative, effective way
• A willingness to lead on both major and minor points of implementation
• A curious nature, comfortable asking questions, with an instinct to self-initiate action
• An interest in developing within a high-performing team and learning about specialties within corporate and financial communication in the technology industry
• Experience recognizing a story in the making and the confidence to advance a hypothesis to flesh it out into a work product

Qualifications

• Financial communications experience helpful, though not required
• 4+ years of experience in media relations, journalism, or related communication roles
• Ability to utilize as a geographical base our headquarters in Houston, Texas (preferable), or our San Jose, California office
• BA or BS in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business, or related field
• Agency experience desirable, particularly in dealing with media strategy

What We Can Offer You

Extensive benefits, a competitive salary and participation in the shared values and purpose that make Hewlett Packard Enterprise one of the world´s most attractive employers! At HPE, our goal is to provide equal opportunities, flexible work-life balance, and constantly evolving career growth.

If you are looking for challenges in an exciting, supportive and international work environment, then we definitely want to hear from you. Continue the conversation by clicking apply now below, or directly via our Careers Portal at www.hpe.com/careers.

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Annual Salary: $64,600.00 - $148,500.00

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