Corporate Relations Advisor

About us: 
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role:
We are looking for a Corporate Relations Advisor to play a key role within the Communications & Corporate Affairs team, supporting the delivery of high-quality, strategic communications across the firm. The role contributes to media relations, campaign development, crisis communications and corporate reporting, ensuring consistency and impact. Working closely with senior stakeholders and global colleagues, the Advisor helps develop and execute communications strategies while bringing a proactive, innovative approach informed by best practice.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Communications & Corporate Affairs Lead in designing and delivering global or high-profile communications campaigns, ensuring consistency of messaging across jurisdictions and audiences.

• Act as a central point of coordination across the function, maintaining oversight of activities and ensuring senior stakeholders are aligned and appropriately briefed.

• Draft, edit and refine external communications, including press releases, statements and Q&A materials, ensuring accuracy, consistency and alignment with firmwide messaging.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, external agencies and sector bodies to enhance and protect the firm’s reputation.

• Serve as an initial point of contact for media relations, managing proactive engagement, responding to enquiries and supporting the handling of sensitive issues.

• Monitor global media coverage using external tools, producing analytics, insights and briefings for senior and partner audiences.

• Coordinate the development and implementation of playbooks, policies, frameworks and toolkits to support best practice in media and crisis communications.

• Support crisis and reputational risk management by acting as a coordinator and first responder when required, preparing briefings and assisting with stakeholder communications.

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in communications and corporate affairs, ideally within professional services, a regulated sector or a complex, international environment.

• Experience of working with, or advising, cross-functional and multinational teams, with a strong appreciation for global ways of working.

• Confident media handler with experience managing sensitive or high-profile issues, and sound judgement on when to escalate matters to senior stakeholders.

• Proven ability to plan and deliver communications strategies and campaigns, supported by strong project management skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil complex information into clear, compelling messaging for a range of audiences.

• A proactive, resilient and solutions-focused approach with the ability to operate effectively under pressure in a fast-paced, global environment.

What's on offer:

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance

• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships

• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options

• Income protection and life assurance

• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.

• Emergency family care

• Additional holiday/birthday leave.

• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.

• Travel insurance and season ticket loan

• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).