Job Description

The Communications manager, China will support the creation of a communications vision and roadmap as well as help implement a strategic external and internal communications plan to support GE Aerospace’s work as well as enhance the company’s reputation in China. This position will support the following areas: Reputation & Thought Leadership, Media Relations, Public Affairs, and Employee/Culture Communications and work closely with the Brand team on regional brand marketing campaigns.

The Ideal Candidate

• Executive Communications: Provide communications support to regional leadership on complex, sensitive and business critical priorities, support a thought leadership strategy and manage speaker and conference participation for regional senior leaders. 
• Public Affairs: Partner with government affairs commercial teams in region to help develop a GE Aerospace public affairs strategy for the market, including creating the local GE Aerospace narrative to help advance business priorities, managing reputation risk issues in region, and operating with a campaign mindset to support policies with government stakeholders. 
• Media Relations: Build relationships with major regional business media and national media to drive proactive storytelling. Responsible for written communications, including press releases, holding statements, Q&As, position papers and media pitches. Manage regional PR agencies, including monitoring and measurement of regional communications, securing a favorable share-of-voice relative to competitors. 
• Commercial Communications: Work closely with commercial / market development teams to support targeted business opportunities and initiatives through brand campaigns and integrated marketing communications programs as well as customer events and programs. 
• Manage digital and social media platforms: Adopt creative content strategy and build strong engagement and outreach programs through GE Aerospace’s various channels. 
• Employee engagement / Culture communications: Deliver an employee engagement program to create awareness, celebrate wins, and drive GE Aerospace’s culture. Develop messaging, writing, directing webcasts/webchats, video production, planning, and executing all-employee and function meetings, etc. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Degree in Communications, Media/PR, Journalism, or related field. 
• Minimum 8 years of communications experience in media relations, public relations or public affairs; strong preference for candidates with a Corporate multinational and/or PR agency with major blue-chip clients  
• Fluent and/or excellent verbal/written skills in English, and local/regional language. 
• Experienced people leader of a global team. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strategic thinker and problem solver - Ability to develop and execute comprehensive communications strategy and plans. 
• Collaborator - Must demonstrate collaborative mindset and excellent relationship management skills and a willingness to work across the matrix. 
• Influencer - Provides counsel, advice, and services to help senior management communicate effectively to all audiences. 
• Change agent - Always comfortable with change and looking for a way to do things better. 
• Travel – A willingness and ability to travel across the region. 

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

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SPB3