Communications Specialist - China

Responsibilities: 

• 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. 

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. 

Desired Characteristics & Capabilities: 

• 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.