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Director, Global Public Relations

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients.

- Senior external comms specialist with over twenty years' experience in London based PR agencies, as a successful PR consultant managing my own business, and now in house as head of the Global PR programme at Capgemini. - Creative, results-driven leader who still gets a buzz from devising and implementing multi-channel/multi-format programmes that secure the right results to support key business objectives, including reputation building and sales enablement. - My skill set includes the ability to provide strategic counsel and considered opinion to inform and build an integrated comms strategy across all platforms, as well as planning and developing creative content and compelling stories to drive engagement across a variety of channels; planning and managing multi-layered PR programmes; issues management and crisis comms; excellent writing skills; financial and budget planning/management; campaign co-ordination and evaluation/measurement. I also have an extensive track record in building and piloting new programmes, managing and motivating teams. - Currently responsible for the Global PR programme at Capgemini with strategic input into content, digital, advocacy and thought leadership strategy, as well as wider marketing and integrated comms activities, supporting, advising and profiling senior execs, handling a busy corporate comms environment in a pragmatic way, while also managing the global PR team, a network of over 20 country PR managers and agencies/key suppliers.