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Employee and Executive Communications Manager at Cisco France

What You'll Do

You’ll build and lead an integrated internal communications program for the French employees and support the Cisco France Vice President with external communications. 

You will develop and deliver on coordinated communications campaigns, working in partnership with all communications functions and collaborators across the business, including the French executive team.

You will need to be a seasoned communications professional with 5 to 8 years of integrated communications with a solid background in internal communications.

The success of this role also requires the ability to set priorities to ensure the success of communications within the business as well as part of the EMEAR communications team. It requires the ability to focus on the areas where communications can have the biggest impact and demonstrate tangible results around influencing our audience’s perceptions, attitudes and behaviors. 

Role Requirements: 

• Drives all aspects of executive and employee communications for Cisco France across internal and external audiences.
• Positions the French General Manager externally with keynotes, interviews, blogs and on Social Media. 
• Is considered a strategic partner and advisor to customers and key interfaces; will work directly with them to deliver content and programs to drive the French communications strategy and plan. 
• Develops and owns the key French internal communication channels which support business requirements, whilst also using EMEAR and global channels. 
• Creates original content whilst also adapting existing content for communications campaigns including messaging, narratives, presentations, blogs, bylined articles, multimedia content etc. 
• Ability and proven track record of translating business goals into communication goals and of understanding audience perceptions. 
• Think strategically and creatively around translating business priorities into stories and visual concepts that are relevant and engaging to a broad audience across various channels.
• Work in true collaboration with individuals and teams to extract relevant information from multiple sources and blend into a range of communications. 
• Strong interpersonal skills; intuitive ability to read people, and influence where appropriate.
• Demonstrates a high degree of poise, professionalism and take the initiative.
• Is responsible for metrics, quality of communications outcomes, and delivery on time.

Competencies

• French first language, English business fluent
• Understand Cisco’s story, its technologies, services & solutions
• Critical communication planning
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Strong interpersonal skills; intuitive ability to read people
• Translating complexity into easy words and pictures
• Strong project management skills with the ability to balance concurrent projects
• Resilient problem solver with the ability to gain consensus and manage sensitive situations
• Consulting & partnering
• Presentation skills
• Social Media knowledge

Who You'll Work With

The Cisco EMEAR Communications Team is a world-class team of communicators. We connect and engage with media, analysts and employees. We are in tune with everything that’s happening around us. We create connections and enable relevant conversations that influence measurable opinions and behaviours.

You will work closely with the business leaders of France, as well as Marketing, Sales and other functions and global communications teams to craft and drive outcome-based communications programs.

Why Cisco!

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. 

Cisco France is a Great Place to Work. We are famous for our spirit, our technologies and the way we make an impact in our country. But first and foremost: we are famous for our culture and our great people.

We are leaders with vision, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. 

We Are Cisco.

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