Head of Corporate Relations and Communications Public Relations & Corporate Affairs (Marketing & Communications) Full time Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day? At MLC Life Insurance, we're proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We're Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world's leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group. We're driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most. The Role Reporting into the Chief Customer and Strategy Officer (CCSO), the Head of Corporate Relations and Communications is a newly created role. You will be responsible for developing and implementing the enterprise strategy for corporate relations and policy positions with key external stakeholders including industry bodies, government and semi-government bodies, media, and the wider public. You will achieve success by ensuring the organisation has a cohesive and consistent external corporate voice to stakeholders aligned with the company's strategic objectives, whilst building strong external relationships and executing a clear proactive and reactive action plan to promote and protect the business interests of MLC Life Insurance and its customers, business partners and shareholders. About you An experienced corporate affairs and communications professional, you possess a minimum of 10+ years of experience in corporate affairs, public policy, media and external communications, government relations, or industry affairs roles within the financial services and/or insurance industry. You can speak to your success in developing and executing on strategic and impactful media, communications, political and public policy campaigns whilst developing and managing relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders such as the national and trade media, industry peak bodies, government and other third-party stakeholders. Acting as a thought leader in this space, you possess and demonstrate integrity in your dealings, demonstrating empathy and willingness to listen to and consider stakeholder views, reflecting the culture and values of our business. Lastly, you possess outstanding communication skills (both verbal and written) and the willingness to play a hands-on role when necessary to deliver as a team on our strategy. Bringing our best to life - why join us? · We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community. · We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working. · We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people. · We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs. · We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub. · We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments. #J-18808-Ljbffr