PR Director, KAYAK
EMEA, 10-Month Contract
Travel search engine
Job no longer available
Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Are you a person with strategic vision, creativity, leadership, and a strong digital-first mentality?
- Degree in Communications, PR or Journalism (similar degrees may be considered, dependent on the relevancy of your skills and experience)
- 10+ years working experience in PR required, preferably within B2C communication
- Proven track record designing, implementing and measuring successful PR campaigns
- Experience working with PR and communication in a sizable, international company
- Strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to navigate between multiple brands and stakeholders across many locations
- Ambitious, motivated individual with a desire to make a difference and get their hands into every stage of a PR campaign, from strategy, conceptualization to execution and measurement
- Creative, dedicated and hardworking - ready to get in and make an impact
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a PR Director to join our global PR team!
- In this senior role, you’ll lead PR strategy, campaigns, and projects across KAYAK and its portfolio of brands in EMEA, working closely with Marketing, Commercial, and PR teams, as well as external agencies
- You’ll develop and implement creative PR concepts that align with business goals, bringing ideas to life with strategic thinking, strong digital expertise, and an analytical attitude
- This role includes managing one direct report and requires leadership skills to operate effectively at all levels of the organization
- Note, this will be a 10-month fixed term parental cover
- Own the end-to-end execution of PR campaigns, from ideation to results, ensuring alignment with business and communications strategies
- Craft and distill key messages from across the business to inform compelling PR campaigns and communication plans
- Lead large-scale, multi-layered, omni-channel communication strategies, working cross-functionally with Brand Marketing, SEO, Content, Social teams
- Develop and oversee communications materials, ensuring PR Managers and regional teams can effectively localize campaigns in their markets
- Foster positive relationships with media, influencers, and industry partners, identifying opportunities to elevate KAYAK’s brand presence
- Analyze and measure PR impact, using data to refine strategies and improve results
- Join our PR team to drive innovation and brand storytelling across EMEA!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
South End, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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