PR Events Officer

Cubaka, an award-winning agency specialising in social media communications. We have a proud history of working with Toyota and Lexus, together developing the leading automotive social media department in the UK. For more information, please visit our website at www.cubaka.com.

Toyota GB is frequently ranked as one of the top "Best Companies to Work for" list published by The Sunday Times, and contractors based with TGB can benefit from many of the award-winning schemes available to staff, including a contractor-specific scheme for access to Toyota and Lexus cars.

You will be part of a relaxed, informal but very high performing team which includes PR, Content & Publishing, Social media, Community Management, Data & Insights and, of course, Events & Operations. For more information about Toyota and our products, please visit www.toyota.co.uk. You can read more about working at Toyota here: https://www.toyota.co.uk/world-of-toyota/careers/toyota-(gb).

Role overview

This is a rare opportunity to join one of the leading automotive PR teams in Britain and play a vital role in planning and delivering exceptional media events.

Based in the Press and Social media team at Toyota's award-winning Eco HQ at Burgh Heath, near Epsom, Surrey, you will lead events and press relations for both the Toyota and Lexus brands.

As a full-time and permanent member of the Toyota GB team, you will be contracted through Cubaka, reporting into our Head of Operations, and stationed at Toyota GB HQ. While your base will be at the office, Toyota also offers flexible and remote working policies to ensure a healthy work-life balance.

As a PR Events Officer at Cubaka, you will:

• Work closely with the media, both automotive and lifestyle, alongside colleagues at TGB and around the world to help Toyota continue to deliver product launches and events which the media consistently rate as amongst the best in the business.
• Lead the development and management of events and supporting the PR department with media relations.
• Own the planning and delivery of events and launches to support our PR Operations Manager and her team. This includes budgeting, communications strategy and logistics.
• Be the main person on your launches, often dealing direct with very senior figures in the Toyota world as well as media. You will build relationships with automotive and lifestyle journalists.
• Build close personal relationships with key media personalities to help us maintain our excellent reputation in these areas.

You will bring:

• 2yrs+ experience in a PR capacity, either in an events agency, PR agency or corporate department.
• Superb organisational skills, love to manage big projects and have the vision and drive to turn great ideas in to brilliant events.
• A methodical, precise and organised approach, but also to be full of ideas for how an event should look, where it should be held, and what might happen on it. The launches are varied and challenging, from V8 sports convertibles to EVs, and cars powered by hydrogen to vans.
• A track history of success in logistics, communications strategy, and managing complex budgets.
• Great communication skills, ability to translate technical information into strategic narrative ready for sell-in to media.
• Positive work attitude, and be a self-starter, confident and bright individual, focused on ownership of projects.
• A willingness to travel and be comfortable in a mutually supportive, informal but high-pressure, team environment.
• Experience from working in or with an automotive brand is welcome but not essential, as is some interest in and enthusiasm for cars, transport, and the accompanying environmental and social issues.
• Experience in events management would be a bonus, but not essential. More important is experience managing issues and projects and taking them from concept to reality.

And in return, Cubaka offers:

• 25 days annual leave per annum
• Flexible, hybrid working
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Auto-enrolment pension (up to 8% contribution)
• Perkbox
  
• Annual review, and quarterly performance reviews
• Choice of company Apple MacBook Pro or PC

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