Head of PR, Communications and Content

Head of PR, Communications and Content
Position Overview
The Head of PR, Communications & Content is responsible for shaping and delivering Advania UKI’s external and internal communications strategy, ensuring a consistent, compelling narrative across media, leadership, employees, partners, and customers.

As a senior brand leader, this role also acts as a Brand Champion for Advania UKI – owning, protecting, and elevating the brand across all touchpoints. The role ensures the Advania brand is consistently expressed, clearly understood, and credibly represented through communications, content, leadership behaviour, and storytelling.

Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, this role works closely with the UKI leadership team, global brand and communications colleagues, People & Culture, Marketing, and external agencies to strengthen brand awareness, trust, and reputation while supporting growth, transformation, and The Advania Way alignment.

What Success Looks Like

• Establish category-leading PR and corporate communications across the UK and Ireland

• Champion and strengthen the Advania brand, narrative, and tone of voice across all audiences

• Build trust, credibility, and consistency in how Advania UKI shows up externally and internally

• Deliver clear, engaging internal communications to support growth, change, and cultural alignment

• Position Advania UKI leaders as credible, authentic industry thought leaders

• Support commercial growth, partner strategy (notably Microsoft), M&A integration, talent attraction and Crisis Comms

Salary & Benefits

The budgeted salary for this role is between £80,000 - £90,000 a year , depending on experience.

Click here for the list of benefits.

Hybrid working

We recognise the benefits that remote and flexible working brings.

We operate a hybrid working policy that allows our employees to balance time in the office and time from home. Each team within our organisation can decide how to implement this policy. If you have any questions after applying, please reach out to our recruitment team.

Responsibilities
Some of your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Act as a senior Brand Champion for Advania UKI, owning the integrity, consistency, and evolution of the brand narrative

• Ensure Advania’s brand positioning, values, and tone of voice are consistently applied across PR, communications, content, and leadership messaging

• Translate group brand strategy into a strong, locally relevant UKI narrative

• Develop and execute an integrated PR and external communications strategy aligned to Advania UKI’s business plan and brand positioning

• Own media relations across tier-one, trade, and sector press in the UK and Ireland

• Secure high-impact coverage that supports category ownership, credibility, and commercial priorities

• Define priority thought leadership themes aligned to Advania’s strategic offerings, growth priorities, and partner ecosystem

• Position executives and subject-matter experts as authoritative, visible industry voices

• Shape leadership narratives that reinforce brand credibility and relevance

• Own and evolve Advania UKI’s messaging architecture and narrative framework

• Create, edit, and oversee high-quality copy for press releases, thought leadership, executive communications, corporate announcements, web content, campaigns, and internal channels

• Act as guardian of tone of voice, editorial quality, and narrative coherence across the business

• Define and track success across PR, communications, and content including share of voice, sentiment, message pull-through, engagement, and internal reach

• Act as a trusted communications and brand advisor to the UKI leadership team

Qualifications & Experience

The right candidate for this role will have:

Essential:

• Senior PR and communications leadership experience within B2B technology, IT services, or professional services

• Demonstrable experience leading both external and internal communications

• Strong brand stewardship experience, acting as a guardian and champion of brand narrative and tone of voice

• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling capability, with confidence operating as a senior copywriter

• Strong media relationships across business and technology press

• Experience advising senior leaders and operating in complex, matrixed organisations

• Proven agency management experience

• UK & Ireland market experience, including understanding of the media landscape

Desirable:

• Experience supporting business growth, transformation, or M&A

• Experience working with or alongside Microsoft

About Us:
We are the tech company with people at heart.

At Advania, we believe in empowering people to create sustainable value through the clever use of technology. As one of Microsoft's leading partners in the UK, specialising in Azure, Security, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, we have a proven track record of success in delivering transformational IT services.

Our Selection Process:

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please do let us know if you’ll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form.

As part of our commitment to our clients we will need to carry out background checks, including a criminal record check, for all offers of employment. If you have any unspent criminal convictions or questions about the screening process, please notify your recruiter once the application has been submitted.

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