The Role

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Global Grade: Staff Graded

Step into a Role That Shapes Global Influence!

Are you ready to make your mark in a dynamic, inclusive, and forward-thinking global FMCG powerhouse? Backed by a team of 25,000 passionate professionals across the world, we’re on the lookout for a Corporate Affairs Manager who thrives at the intersection of strategy, communication, and impact.

In this pivotal role, you’ll be the voice and face of our organization, building bridges with government bodies, industry leaders, media, and trade associations. You’ll drive our corporate narrative, champion our values, and ensure our policies resonate with the world around us. Reporting directly to the Corporate Affairs Director, you’ll be at the heart of shaping our public presence and influencing key legislative and business developments.

Principle Accountabilities

• Strategic Legislative Monitoring and Government Relations: Oversee the monitoring of legislative processes and regulatory changes, providing strategic insights and recommendations. Co-lead the development and execution of government relations strategies, including engagement with government officials and policymakers.
• Lobbying and Advocacy: Support the preparation of lobbying documents in collaboration with other departments, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic objectives. Draft and review official statements for the company and business associations.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Support CA Director within high-level cooperation within NMA, prepare strategic official statements, proactively monitor legislation and media, analyze data from external partners.
• Community and NGO Engagement: Address inquiries from local NGOs and individuals, ensuring responses align with the company’s strategic objectives. Oversee the company’s website, ensuring timely and strategic updates.
• Media Monitoring and Reporting: Oversee the preparation of daily media monitoring and weekly media reports, ensuring they provide strategic value to senior management.
• Internal Presentations and regular internal updates: Draft and review CLA insights into internal presentations for senior management team meetings, ensuring they effectively communicate strategic objectives. Write and review texts for internal communications related to external affairs.

Skills & Experience Required

• Degree in Economics, Public Relations, Journalism, Political Science, or Sociology
• Government Relations: experience working with state institutions and services in Poland and EU
• Crisis management: ability to act quickly and appropriately in stressful situations; diplomatic skills: high personal culture and diplomacy
• Communication Skills: effective verbal and written communication, eloquence, and openness
• Socio-Political Knowledge: understanding of socio- political situations and state structures, including the EU
• Media Relations: knowledge of media and communication tools, experience with public relations

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming.

Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. 

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.