Head of Communications

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Senior communications leadership spanning both internal and external, ideally having built or turned around a function.
• •A track record of creating a distinctive company voice to create awareness and differentiation in a very crowded market.
• •Developing the PR vertical within the marketing function as a campaigning discipline, with established tier one and trade press relationships and experience working within agency partnerships.
• •Experience building measurement frameworks and governance from scratch.
• •History of working in firms that have gone through cultural transformation and connecting culture to commercial outcomes.
• •Experience across regions connecting local activity into a coherent global narrative.
• •Familiarity with the rhythms of a public company including earnings, investors and analysts.
• •Strong news judgement and editorial instinct, you can spot a story and make people want to engage with it.
• •An understanding of the tech and partner opportunities to create budget efficiency, targeted approach and successful outcomes alongside.
• •Strong relationship-management skills
• •Able to operate at a strategic level with deep hands-on execution.
• •Clear and effective communicator.
• •Great commercial acumen.
• •Excellent leadership skills, proven ability to build high performing teams
• •Demonstrates sound, consistent, trusted judgment.
• •Comfortable with high volume and very fast-paced workload.

Desired Qualifications

• •Partner with Investor Relations and analyst relations team, partnering with legal and executives to formulate our formal communications content.
• •Build close working relationships across the business, including commercial, partners, and regional leadership so communications are grounded in what's happening in the company and what is important to be communicated
• •Support on building and managing relationships with analyst firms that matter to our growth, e.g. Gartner, Forrester and equivalents.
• •Design how we educate employees to be genuine, confident brand ambassadors
• •Identify, develop and enable Endava's Key People of Influence – senior people across the business who can credibly represent our story externally through media, events, content and social presences.
• •Play a critical leadership role in setting and executing a global external communications program, operating as a Hub and Spoke model with regional external comms leaders for APAC, EMEA and the USA.
• •Own stakeholder management across the communications function.
• •Work alongside Director of brand and comms to deliver Endava's first proper KPI and measurement framework for communications, reported quarterly as part of our wider marketing reporting.
• •Establish governance over how the function runs — priorities, spend, decision-making, team disciplines, with consistent review and building on successes.
• •Bring a clear, explainable rationale for every partnership — agencies, media, industry bodies, platforms.
• •Own the Communications budget, managing agency spend, allocating resources across programmes and ensuring investment decisions are evidence based and commercially justified.
• •Build and grow personal relationships with tier one and trade press — credibility that sits with you, not solely with an agency.
• •Shape and own iconic pillars of thought leadership globally, aligning across our industry GoToMarket themes, executed in a way that elevates Endava's brand and begins to differentiate us in market.
• •Build a pipeline of compelling stories and case studies that brings our work to life., highlight client and industry successes and business impact, driving client advocacy programs across our regional and global events.