Brand and Communications Associate, ASEAN

Position: Brand and Communications Associate, ASEAN

Location: Singapore. With potential frequent travel to other Vero offices across ASEAN (Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar).

Responsibilities

As the agency’s first hire in Singapore, you will be given latitude in the development of the firm’s local communications footprint.
Support the agency’s own local and regional PR activities including proactive media outreach, media interviews, announcements, award nominations, securing speaking engagements, organizing seminars and webinars, and podcast opportunities for our company spokespeople in APAC.
Work closely with regional marketing teams to support local announcements and liaising with external teams and business units for PR campaigns and announcements
Contribute to new PR campaigns and amplify existing campaigns
Establish and maintain relationships with media outlets and journalists in APAC
Proactive pitching, reactive media handling and active media monitoring
Engagement with organizations relevant to the PR, Creative, Digital Marketing Industry, such as but not limited to PRCA, Campaign Asia, Provoke, Marketing-Interactive

Requirements

Be strategic, well-rounded PR and Corporate Communications (internal & external) leader with ability to translate the firm’s vision and strategy into branding and PR initiatives.
Strong media network, ability to develop optimal media strategies and PR programs for the firm.
Deep expertise in brand reputation management, brand refresh and leadership branding.
Be able to alert management team with key trends, pre-empt potential risks and best in class practices as the firm’s PR, Branding and Communications strategy takes shape.
Strong learning agility, nimble, commercially sharp leader and be able to quickly grasp the firm’s uniqueness, ongoing developments and multipronged business model, act as sparring partner to C-Suite and the Senior Management Team.
Understanding of the agency and client landscape in Singapore, with an emphasis on understanding clients with regional or global businesses.
Creative, strong branding and marketing expertise and track record, ability to develop differentiated and impactful narratives, elevate the firm’s brand image and align internal and external communications.
Entrepreneurial, hands on, comfortable with ambiguity, ability to build the firm’s PR and Communications capabilities from scratch.
Fluency in written and spoken English, strong understanding and appreciation of multiple cultures and modes of business operations.
Impeccable integrity and market reputation that can be referenced

Working at Vero

You will be a member of a multicultural team of communication specialists, spread across the region and brought together by their love for creative and efficient strategies. We pride in creating deeply simulating flexible workplaces informal and inspiring.

We also invest in a comprehensive set of employee benefits, including but not limited to:

Annual Bonus: An “enhanced 13th month” through which you will receive an annual extra sum of money equal to your salary in the preceding month plus a fraction of annual company benefits. The year-end bonus is determined by the Company and at its sole discretion. The Year-end Bonus is paid in the same paycheck as January.
Flexible Office: All our employees can choose where they want to work on any given day, should it be from the office, from home, from a coffee shop, or from a yacht in the Pacific Ocean.
Tech set-up: one company laptop, a budget to build your home office, subscriptions to relevant industry media as well as to social sentiment analysis and business intelligence tools and dashboards.
International Travel: As much as possible we encourage our teams to travel for events/client work. On any given year (non-pandemic that is) manager-level team members have the opportunity to visit some of our other offices, attend industry events and follow their clients if they handle regional projects.
Unlimited Leave: Your allocated holiday time at Vero will be unlimited. We trust our people to use good judgement when given guidelines for making decisions about taking holiday and we know that our teams work better when they can rest and take a proper break from work. Our goal is that every team take an average of 15 days (minimum!) per person a year.
Sick Leave: The number of sick leaves is not monitored by the company as we believe that you should take a rest when you are unwell and unfit to work.
Wellness day off: 1 paid day per quarter for you to take time off, unplug, treat yourself with something nice.
Thought Leadership and training: We sponsor team-members with training tools and resources, both internal and external, and we even incentivize employees to complete classes. Details of training programs and incentives will be shared upon your onboarding. This includes training and development investments organized by the company as well as specialized programs that our executives may come across and feel is needed for their development. For example, this could be a program organized by a group such as PR WEEK, PRCA or a training program that focuses on business in general. Across the Vero group we are seeking new and better ways to help people develop careers – and of course this would apply to Vietnam too.
Health Insurance: The Company will provide private medical insurance as a benefit. The actual package and structure of the insurance may be determined by the Company and at its sole discretion.
Mental Health Budget: We understand the importance of access to proper mental health support, all our employees can access a minimum budget of $500 USD per year for therapy with internationally trained psychologists. The access to this budget and the content of your therapy are 100% confidential, only you and your therapist know what is being said during sessions, of course.
Maternity & Paternity Leave: 6 Months of paid maternity leave and 1 month of paid paternity leave. Eligibility commences after 1 year of service with Vero.

Interested candidates may apply here.