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What role you will play in our team

The Media Relations Manager serves as a the lead for proactive media outreach and response throughout the corporation. Focused on ExxonMobil’s strategic objectives, they are a leader and an integral part of the communications team, working collaboratively and creatively to ensure the ExxonMobil story is communicated efficiently and effectively to external audiences, in particular media.

The manager will lead the media relations team in its development and deployment of an integrated, corporate media relations approach working with ExxonMobil’s business lines, affiliates and other members of the Public & Government Affairs team to clearly and effectively deliver key messages.

Additionally, they will be responsible for creating and implementing media relations strategies and tactics for senior leadership to drive greater awareness of key business activities and objectives to external audiences around the world.

Managers are responsible for leading and developing their team to plan, strategize and coordinate external communications efforts. They must work collaboratively with business leads to communicate ExxonMobil’s goals.

This person should be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and lead a highly-capable team of professionals. They should contribute immediately with new ideas and demonstrate care, compassion, leadership, resilience and a continual pursuit of excellence.

What you will do

• Support global ExxonMobil initiatives through media relations strategy
• Manage team of media relations employees across the organization to disseminate ExxonMobil news and information to media
• Provide strategic direction to ExxonMobil business lines, leadership and corporate funcations on media relations
• Lead and develop media relations professionals
• Build relationships of trust and confidence with senior-level ExxonMobil leaders. Understand various executive leadership communications styles and be able to to adopt leaders voices into press announcements op-eds, and other external executive communications
• Ensure integration/alignment of external media relations plans and activities with overall corporate strategic goals
• Lead team to plan and execute all media relations across various ExxonMobil corporate extneral channels
• Establish, build, and nurture a strong network of relationships across ExxonMobil business lines

About you

The Media Relations Manager will be a dynamic, energetic leader, invested in the careers of the team, while developing and deploying innovative media relations strategies to support the corporation’s objectives.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong writing and editing skills and solid experience developing speeches, executive letters, publications, blog posts, and other written materials
• A minimum of 15 years of experience, including integrated communications, media relations, journalism, editorial writing, or related areas
• Expertise in AP style
• Bachelor’s Degree minimum in journalism, communications, public relations, political science, English, literature, or classics preferred; advanced degree in policy-related discipline also advantageous
• Experience working with subject matter and translating technical content into digestible communications for broad audiences
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and ability to apply learning to other database environments

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

• Demonstrated 15+ years of professional experience in public relations, content creation or public affairs

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work
• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life

More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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