PL - PR Manager Start ASAP

About the role

The Marketing & PR department of BYD Europe defines the entire range of activities to market and brand our electric vehicles in Europe. We mix a combination of channels to reach out to our stakeholders. These channels include events sponsorships conferences advertising social media printed materials and other PR activities.

BYD Europe is looking for an experienced PR Manager in Poland a natural communicator who likes the excitement of new challenges and is able to thrive in a fastpaced environment to join our team and help us enhance a favorable image of our company with clients potential customers influencers and the public in the zone of responsibility.

Key responsibilities of the PR Manager will be to:

• Develop effective PR plan and budget for BYD in Poland.
• Manage BYD testfleet for Poland as the BYDvehicles are BYDs best brand ambassadors.
• Cooperate with Marketing Manager Poland Marketing/PR Director and Senior PR Manager BYD Europe on common activities.
• Manage regional PR campaigns in conjunction with appointed agency.
• Be the local point of reference for PR activities in Poland.
• Build relations with press media digital influencers and ensure visibility of the brand and product stories.
• Create all external communication materials such as press releases speeches invitation letters content for the website leaflets.
• Be a brand Ambassador and work always with the Customer in mind.
• Actively engage and collaborate on any European event or activity as needed.

Your profile:

• 5 8 years experience in corporate communications public relations in the automotive industry especially in other OEMs dealer groups or as a journalist.
• Strong interest in automotive industry especially in the new energy vehicle sector.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal; fluent in Polish andEnglish languages skills
• Creative thinking with an affinity for innovation and problemsolving.
• Bachelors degree in communication Journalism Public relations Marketing or in another relevant field.
• Solid experience coordinating successful PR campaigns.
• Expert knowledge of social media online marketing and internet culture.
• Able to multitask and handle various projects in different stages simultaneously.
• Flexible and able to adapt fast.
• Proactive and energetic communication style.

We offer:

• Performance and experience based.
• Commuting allowance when working from Office.
• Department & company wide teambuilding events.
• An exciting opportunity to be part of European transition to Zero Emissions transportation and decarbonization of the economy.

About BYD:

BYD is a leading hightech multinational company based in Shenzhen China. It operates in four core fields of IT automotive new energy and rail transit and employs over 220000 people worldwide. As a global pioneer in New Energy Solutions BYD is dedicated to building a zeroemission ecosystem. BYD Europe BV located in Hoofddorp the Netherlands is the marketing and sales HQ of BYD Co. Ltd based in Shenzhen China. BYD Europe BV offers a full line of BYD electric vehicles including allelectric cars allelectric buses and allelectric forklift trucks. Our Purpose is to build a zeroemission future that reconnects humanity with nature and a World of clean air. We are looking for talent that connects with this mission and want to create positive impact by joining a diverse and dynamic team