Communications Consultant, Media Relations
Springfield, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts
Job ID: R16268
Overview
A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.
Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.
We invite you to explore the possibilities.
What our employees say
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
Communications Consultant, Media Relations
Strategic Communications Team
Full-Time, Hybrid – Springfield, MA or Boston, MA
The Opportunity
If you’re looking to be part of an innovative company that values collaboration, flexibility, innovation and inclusion, and a team that works hard and loves what they do, you’ve just found your next role.
As the Communications Consultant, Media Relations, you will help to tell MassMutual’s story externally, communicating the company’s compelling and differentiated business, culture and purpose since our founding in 1851: to help people secure their future and protect the ones they love.
You are a motivated Public Relations / Media Relations professional who will contribute to the development and execution of communications plans to help promote, enhance and protect the company brand and reputation.
This role, which reports to the Head of Media Relations, will provide media relations support to the company’s operations, legal and risk areas, and will also be responsible for leading a LinkedIn Leadership effort for the media relations team.
The Team
As a member of MassMutual’s Strategic Communications team, you’ll work closely with leaders and communications partners across the company to develop and execute media relations strategies and secure opportunities that support the company’s purpose, strategic priorities, key initiatives and offerings, tell MassMutual’s compelling and differentiated story and ultimately drive awareness of the company.
The media relations team is a collaborative group that works to identify unique stories and notable announcements and milestones from within the company and share them externally through media opportunities. This close-knit team is creative, inclusive and continuously learning and adapting to new developments and ways of communicating.
The Impact:
- Provide media relations support to the company’s Operations, Legal and Risk areas, proactively identifying external earned media opportunities and reactively responding to media requests.
- Serve as the department’s lead on issues management.
- Lead the department’s LinkedIn Leadership effort, which provides LinkedIn support to select differentiated leaders within the company (excluding the CEO, but in collaboration with those efforts) and may also identify high-profile speaking and award opportunities for select leaders. Manage outside agency and maximize their support, streamlining communications between the team and agency, growing and developing the program, building up the in-house media relations team’s knowledge and support capabilities and establishing KPIs to track and measure the program’s impact.
- Exercise excellent judgment in prioritizing workload, focusing on those efforts that are most strategic and impactful for the company.
The Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism or related field or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of Public Relations / Media Relations and/or Thought Leadership experience, with prior in-house experience.
- 8+ years of writing, editing and media relations skills – from development of strategic messaging, to writing press releases, to pitching unique storylines, to media training executives.
The Ideal Qualifications
- Prior Public Relations / Media Relations experience, including demonstrated ability to work with media to secure editorial / earned media coverage.
- Strong prior issues management / reputation management experience supporting a large company, including serving as a company spokesperson.
- Prior experience providing Thought Leadership support and/or successfully establishing an in-house LinkedIn program for select leaders.
- Excellent media relationships (regional, national, trade, digital) and knowledge.
- Demonstrated agility and flexibility and a continuous learning mindset, with willingness and desire to develop and work on new areas or special projects as needed.
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular meetings with the media relations team
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- Access to mentorship opportunities
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
State and federal laws and regulations, including the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, limit employment of individuals with certain criminal backgrounds.
EEO Statement(Opens in new window)MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.
Salary Range: $107,700.00-$141,300.00
Hiring Process
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Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here.
- In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
- Medical and dental insurance
- Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
- Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
- Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
- Personalized mental health solutions
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
- Educational assistance program
- Childcare support
- Financial counseling
- Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
- Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
- Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
- Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
- Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
- Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
- Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
- Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
- Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses
Why MassMutual?
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How we work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Where we work
Springfield Office
1295 State Street,
Springfield, MA
Boston Office
10 Fan Pier Blvd,
Boston, MA
New York Office
2 Park Ave,
New York, NY
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