CDD - Communication Manager, EMEA (Cross-Markets) - Mat leave cover

Description

We’re seeking a Communications Manager to coordinate the department’s regional planning and execution, leading the EMEA editorial calendar, creating regional toolkits, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring consistent, compliant deployment across local markets and agencies for The Ordinary and other DECIEM brands. You’ll translate global strategies into regionally relevant frameworks, manage workflows and approvals, and consolidate reporting and learnings for continuous improvement.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategy & Cross-Market Execution:

• Lead the strategy, planning, and implementation of EMEA regional communications campaigns and initiatives.
• Translate global strategies into EMEA storytelling frameworks, messaging hierarchies, and communications angles for local market activation.
• Own the regional editorial calendar; identify seasonal, cultural, and trend-driven opportunities for proactive and reactive storytelling.
• Act as a coordination hub between global, regional, and local teams to ensure alignment, timing, and consistent narrative.
• Own the creation of regional toolkits (narratives, messaging, press materials, influencer guidance) and rollout materials for market activation.
• Oversee adaptation of global assets for EMEA use; ensure consistency, quality, and compliance.
• Create and adapt press and communications assets for the region in partnership with Design and Brand.

Governance & Optimisation:

• Maintain a central repository (SharePoint) for toolkits, assets, and playbooks and drive adoption across markets.
• Manage timelines, workflows, and approval processes across internal stakeholders and global partners.
• Consolidate and disseminate learnings, success cases, and strategic guidance across clusters.
• Manage regional reporting, consolidating and analyzing performance, learnings, and market feedback into dashboards, and recommend optimizations.
• Support issues/crisis protocols and escalation paths in partnership with leadership and Legal; maintain readiness materials.

People Leadership & Partnerships:

• Reports to the Head of Communications EMEA.
• Manage the Community & Culture Specialist and scope of work to build community plans within regionally relevant cultural verticals.
• Collaborate closely with EMEA Market Cluster Communications Managers to ensure local relevance.
• Partner with Regional Commercial and Brand teams to align launch plans and priorities with business targets while protecting brand integrity.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of equivalent work experience in Communications/PR (Beauty experience a plus, regional experience a plus).
• 2+ years of management experience.
• Demonstrated people leadership and program management excellence.
• Detail-oriented, thrives in a fast-paced environment, creative thinker.
• Strong grasp of cultural trends across EMEA and a data-driven approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong planning, prioritization, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Highly collaborative, cooperative, and creative team player.
• English fluency.

Additional Information:
• This is a fixed-term contract (CDD) to cover a maternity leave from November 2026 to June 2027.
• Occasional travel is required across EMEA and other markets.