Role Responsibilities:
Media Relations & Outreach
- Draft, refine, and localise press releases, briefing notes, pitches, and Q&A statements.
- Support proactive pitching across lifestyle, F&B, business, travel, culture, and mainstream media.
- Manage day-to-day media enquiries with professionalism and timely responses.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with media across priority markets.
- Support media preview events, grand openings, interviews, and press trips where required.
Regional PR Support
- Assist in coordinating regional PR calendars covering product launches, new markets, cultural exhibitions, and key brand moments.
- Travel to key markets when needed to support major PR moments, agency discussions, or on-ground media events.
- Liaise with in-market PR agencies to align messaging, timelines, and deliverables.
- Review localised PR materials for accuracy and brand consistency.
- Support monitoring and reporting across multiple markets with a focus on insights, not just clippings.
Content & Messaging
- Draft talking points, event scripts, and spokesperson quotes.
- Support internal alignment on messaging for new markets, partnerships, and campaigns.
- Work with cross-functional teams (Marketing, R&D, Ops, HR etc) to gather accurate information for media materials.
Issues Management & Governance
- Assist in preparing holding statements, FAQs, and reactive responses.
- Support risk assessments on campaign ideas, partnerships, and country-specific sensitivities.
- Help maintain PR SOPs and ensure markets adhere to brand and comms guidelines.
PR Operations & Reporting
- Prepare weekly PR performance reports for APAC leadership.
- Manage press release dissemination, media lists, and PR administrative tasks.
- Track budgets and agency hours where relevant.
- Support event logistics, RSVPs, media gifting, and asset preparation when required.
Role Requirements:
- Minimum 6 years of PR or Communications experience, ideally in consumer, lifestyle, F&B, or retail.
- Experience working with PR agencies (managing or coordinating) is a plus.
- Prior experience handling multiple markets or regional stakeholders is a strong advantage.
- Strong writer with the ability to draft clear, concise press materials.
- Comfortable interacting with journalists, agencies, and external partners.
- Skilled in managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Familiarity with crisis/issue management basics is helpful.
- Fluent in English.
- Willingness to travel for work when required.