# Public Relations & Events Manager

**Company**: Polestar
**Location**: Mascouche, Canada
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

At Polestar, we're looking for a creative, innovative, experienced, and hands-on professional to drive and elevate Polestar's brand awareness, consideration, and reputation across Canada.

As the Public Relations & Events Manager, your primary focus will be on developing and executing proactive public relations and events strategies for Polestar's products, technology, and consumer-facing narratives. In partnership with Communications & Marketing, you will take lead in managing media, journalists, and influencer relationships, and execute PR campaigns which drive brand awareness, engagement, and consideration.

Key responsibilities include:

- Delivering and executing PR campaigns which build and maintain positive key media relationships for the company

- Overseeing product communications from launch through lifecycle management

- Supporting corporate financial communications, including quarterly and annual reporting, ensuring clear, consistent messaging aligned with business performance and strategy

- Acting as the main PR contact for inquiries, statements, press escalations

- Leading experiential activities and events both for the media and the general public, including product launches, auto shows, demo drives, influencer, and sponsorship events

- Driving consumer-facing communication efforts to increase brand awareness, consideration, reputation

- Managing Canadian PR agencies of record, Event agency(ies), as well as vendor partners, ensuring quality completion of deliverables in support of departmental goals

- Fostering close collaboration with Communication & Marketing peers, supporting them as necessary

- For PR and Marketing needs, managing and overseeing the fleet vehicles, asset inventory, and logistics, ensuring optimal usage, availability, and maintenance

- Tracking, monitoring, and reporting PR and event performance and KPIs, managing departmental budget

- Upkeep and maintaining internal archives and asset library

- Supporting in ad-hoc projects, events, and tasks as needed

Requirements include:

- 7-10 years of experience in Public Relations or Communications

- Bachelor's degree in communications, Journalism, or related field

- Proven experience managing events, influencer programs, and external partners

- Excellent communication skills - both written & verbal, and both in English and in French required

- Experience working for an automotive manufacturer, or a consumer PR Agency is highly desirable

- Proven track record of managing successful PR campaigns and engaging events

- Exceptional project management and multitasking abilities

- You understand the basic technical intricacies of the automobile, or possess the desire and proficiency to learn them

- You thrive working within a fast-paced, ever-evolving work environment

- Comfortable managing budgets, timelines, and cross-functional projects

## Skills

### Required
- Public Relations
- Communications
- Event Management
- Influencer Marketing
- Media Relations
- Financial Communications
- Project Management
- Multitasking
- Budget Management
- Timeline Management
- Cross-Functional Projects

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