Total 5 Manager pr media communications job vacancies in mid valley city kuala lumpur

Team Summary

The Southeast Asia corporate communications team creates and delivers communications programs that drive Visa’s business growth and advance and protect the company’s reputation across the region. Within this team, the Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand markets are grouped together, with a dedicated team delivering communication programmes across this dynamic cluster. In addition, the team also looks after Global Clients including Citi, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank for Asia Pacific, and Global and Regional acquirers.

We work across external, client and internal communications activities to promote Visa’s ongoing strategy to extend our payments network into new areas of opportunity and position ourselves as the partner of choice for banks, merchants, fintechs, technology companies and governments.

The role has dual reporting to the Head of Corporate Communications for Regional Southeast Asia and Country Manager for Malaysia. He/She will also be part of Visa’s Global Corporate Communications group, which oversees all corporate communications functions at Visa Inc., including media relations, industry analyst relations, public affairs, internal and issues management.

What a Head of Corporate Communications, Malaysia does at Visa

In this role, you will primarily be supporting Malaysia as part of our SMT corporate communications team and deliver on all aspects of our communications programmes across the markets. The successful candidate will

• Develop communications strategies that support Visa’s strategic business objectives and drive growth across the market  

• Develop communications programmes that demonstrate the value of Visa to everyone, everywhere

• Develop thought leadership content that positions Visa as a leader in the payments industry, including creation of whitepapers on consumer and commercial payments

• Lead the development and delivery of informative and engaging internal communications activities supporting the Country Manager for Malaysia. This includes townhalls and employee communications.

• Support the execution of Visa’s media relations programs across the markets including

  • Developing the strategy and managing the execution of media engagements

  • Identifying and maximising opportunities to enhance Visa’s profile in the media 

  • Developing content to promote Visa’s brand, technical and industry leadership, new products and services

  • Establishing and maintaining close relationships with journalists across general, business, lifestyle and technology media 

  • Ensuring spokespeople are well briefed and trained to deliver key messages

  • Ensuring Visa’s senior management are seen as trusted authorities by the local media

  • Partner with our Social Impact team to drive financial literacy programmes for Malaysia

  • Creating opportunities for the Country Manager and other key management to obtain high, positive profiling in top tier broadcast, print and digital media

• Provide executive communication support to the Country Manager across a variety of internal, external, client, and media communications opportunities including speaker engagements for external and internal events

• Work closely with the Marketing team to ensure corporate communications and marketing programmes are aligned and a coordinated approach is being taken to leverage Visa’s assets across the markets 

• Partner with Visa’s in-market PR agency to successfully deliver communications programmes across the region

• Work with the Government Engagement function to support Visa’s public policy position

• Manage budget and partner closely with the Finance team on full-year media related activities planned for Malaysia.

Why this is important to Visa

In this role, you will be a member of a high-performing team charged with all aspects of corporate communications in Southeast Asia – areas that are focused on maintaining Visa’s leadership in an increasingly complex operating environment. As the Visa network evolves beyond plastic cards into a network of networks that can facilitate money movement to anyone, anywhere, it is essential to our long-term success that we communicate this evolution to all our constituents and define Visa as a purpose-driven payments technology company that enables individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Projects you will be a part of

The Southeast Asia corporate communications team delivers some of the most exciting thought leadership content and media engagement in the region. We work across some of the fastest growing, more diverse, and complex markets, which presents the corporate communications team with a unique opportunity to support the business in navigating challenges and maximising opportunities to drive Visa’s reputation and growth.     

You will work on communications programs that incorporate every aspect of the communications discipline, including the development of thought leadership collateral, supporting client product launches, employee communication, public relations and social media.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Supermom, a fast-growing AI data powerhouse, has a mission to enable parents and families to live better and smarter in Southeast Asia. Boasting one of the largest family communities in Singapore and growing fast in Indonesia and Malaysia, and other SEA countries, we are looking for Media Sales Manager to be a part of this growth story.

As the Sales Manager, you will be responsible for building strong and lasting relationships with media agencies in Malaysia. He/She must have proven track records handling or working for media agencies.

Your role:

• You must have extensive network of agency contacts and years of account servicing or sales experience working for/with agencies
• Promote Supermom solutions to agencies and train agencies in adopting SuperMom solutions
• Conducts regular meetings with agencies to engage in full and frank discussion of client problems, opportunities, and work in progress.
• Reviews clients’ advertising plans with the Business Unit Head and Account Manager.
• Reviews fulfillments done by account servicing team to ensure the strategy and objectives are met prior to submission to the client.
• Reviews annual projections of client gross income and personnel needs.
• Ensures a high level of agency performance on behalf of clients assigned.
• Periodically reviews account profitability to ascertain that a reasonable profit is being earned from the work done for each client.
• Proactively recommend strategies to Supermom top management to better engage and grow revenue from media agencies
• Proactively develop and execute strategies to enhance revenue by a min of 2x yearly

• At least 5+ years of media agency experience
• Extensive networks and contacts in the media agency industry
• Able to network and entertain clients to build relationships
• Excellent sales and negotiation skills with acute business sense
• Entrepreneurial with excellent communication skills and the ability to work calmly under pressure
• Good understanding of how agencies measure performance with relevant KPIs
• Good understanding of how agencies evaluate vendors and partners

• Robust compensation package: Base-plus-commissions
• Esop opportunity in a start up environment
• Bonus plans based on individual, team and/or campaign deliveries
• Work hard, play hard office culture led by a diverse and inclusive workforce

You will be part of

a team executing a public education campaign for a global pharmaceutical company and focused on managing the social media community responses around the campaign communications.

Roles and Responsibilities

[Community Management]

• Track and monitor posts by KOC moms in Facebook groups
• Respond to comments and questions according to a pre-approved FAQ guideline document
• Find opportunities to engage in positive conversation around the campaign topic

Community Management Periods:

• Weekdays: 9am to 7pm with regular check-ins onto the FB groups Weekends: 2-4x check-ins to the FB groups

[Daily Reporting]

• To provide a daily email report on the volume of conversations and a general breakdown of the type of engagement received on the posts
• · To provide a weekly summary report on the volume of conversations and general breakdown of the type of engagement received on the posts

[Adverse Event Reporting]

• In the event of an adverse event, to do the necessary reporting on the stipulated platform
• Training will be provided for managing an adverse event

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Client Management

• Establish a partner-relationship with clients by being involved in the business environment.

• Provide business solutions through media approaches for assigned brands.

• Ensure professional deliveries in all client dealings.

• Manage clients' requests appropriately (e.g. push back on unreasonable timelines, make judgment or evaluate value on ad hoc requests).

• Take ownership for assigned brands.

• Build and coach high performing team members as required

2. Business Partner Management

• Leverage good relationships with business partners (e.g. creative, media owners), hence the ability to obtain updated information that contributes to the work objectives, value-add to clients or a smooth campaign placement.

• Conduct professional briefings to business partners on innovations and ensure alignment to clients' objectives.

• Ensure clear documentation on all communications with business partners.

• Ensure best value from all negotiations across media owners and campaigns.

• Manage and resolve conflicts between team members and media owners.

3. Research & Media Applications Proficiency

• Proficient in all syndicated and proprietary media applications.

• Display competency in using advanced functions in each tool.

• Able to tap into proprietary consumer insight applications or alternative sources for more in-depth analysis.

• Proficient in using agency's planning approach.

4. Financial • Assist the team members to reconcile all media payment variances of assigned brands.

• Work with team members to ensure accurate and timely invoicing (e.g. regular review of unbilled reports, resolve unbilled cases with Finance).

• Follow-up with clients on ageing matters.

5. Industry Knowledge (Consumer, Business or Brand Insights)

• Exhibit good understanding and forecast on media/ industry/brand development & implications to the businesses.

• Evaluate the strategic implications of media/ industry/brand developments.

• Leverage media to achieve brand objectives, hence providing in-depth evaluations or proposals to assigned campaigns.

• Initiate alternative resources on consumer/brand/ business insights apart from industry sources.

6. Investment Management

• Optimize the given investment or allocate appropriate investments by medium/brands.

• Provide investment consultation to client on appropriate budget to meet the desired objectives.

• Supervise on cost management for brand across medium used.

• Master contract management (e.g. propose, negotiate, track fulfillment, etc.)

• Input on action plans in expenditure reports.

• Reconcile all sources of costing/investment variances.

7. Corporate Responsibility

• Participate in pitches and awards submission.

• Demonstrate appropriate behaviors to uphold the company's image, reputation and credentials.

About Zeal Group

Zeal Group is an award-winning FinTech organisation offering a variety of products. Founded in 2017, we have grown to a team of 700+ employees across the globe