MBDA Italia è l'azienda italiana che fa parte del gruppo multinazionale MBDA, leader mondiale nel settore dei sistemi missilistici
MBDA rappresenta il primo Gruppo a livello europeo con capacità di produzione e progettazione in grado di coprire l’intera gamma corrispondente alle attuali e future esigenze delle forze armate (terra, aria e mare).
All’interno della Direzione “Communications”, MBDA Italia SpA è alla ricerca di un “Communications Project Lead”.
About MBDA Group Communications
MBDA's Group Communications team is making a strategic shift to strengthen our brand and engage with new audiences. We are reinforcing our strategic focus, optimising our support activities and significantly increasing our engagement with the general public. Our objective is clear: to ensure every audience, from our customers and shareholders to the wider public, knows, understands and supports MBDA.
This role supports our existing team of 70 communicators across five European countries and will reinforce our strategic, editorial and project management capabilities.
The opportunity: Communications Project Lead
Reporting to a Communications Business Partner, the Communications Project Lead will be crucial in executing impactful communication projects aligned with our strategic and business objectives. He/ she will manage initiatives from concept to completion, ensuring consistency across all channels and mobilising the right teams and external partners.
Your responsibilities:
Strategic leadership:
- Translate the strategic vision from Communications Business Partners into actionable, multi-channel communications plans.
- Support the development of group-wide strategies and campaign concepts.
- Ensure all communications consistently align with the MBDA brand platform.
- Coordinate and prioritise projects based on strategic business impact.
- Propose strategic initiatives and proactive communication activities.
Project Management:
- Take full ownership of projects after the strategic scoping phase (including complex and/or sensitive projects).
- Oversee the entire project lifecycle: scoping, planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation.
- Manage internal and external resources, budgets, timelines and deliverables.
- Collaborate with dedicated operational and excellence teams to mobilise experts in digital, editorial, design, events and media.
Communication and influence:
- Lead the deployment of coherent, innovative and impactful campaigns.
- Ensure consistent messaging and a unified brand voice across all activities.
- Contribute to crisis communication and reputation management efforts.
Measurement and improvement:
- Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and monitor campaign performance.
- Produce comprehensive project reviews and identify opportunities to improve processes and workflows.
- Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement based on project outcomes and feedback.
Skills Required
- Translate strategic vision into actionable multi-channel communications plans
- Support development of group-wide strategies and campaign concepts
- Ensure consistency and alignment with MBDA brand platform across communications
- Coordinate and prioritise projects based on strategic business impact
- Own project lifecycle: scoping, planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation
- Manage internal and external resources, budgets, timelines and deliverables
- Collaborate with digital, editorial, design, events and media teams and external partners
- Lead campaign deployment ensuring consistent messaging and unified brand voice
- Contribute to crisis communication and reputation management efforts
- Define KPIs, monitor campaign performance and produce comprehensive project reviews
- Drive continuous improvement of processes and workflows based on outcomes and feedback
What We Do
A world leader in missiles and missile systems. Our multi-national organisation is made up of around 13,000 employees working across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the US, and is the first truly integrated European defence company. As the European champion in our sector, our vision is to continue to grow our presence as a global player. Our mission is to achieve this by establishing ourselves as an industry leader; promoting co-operation and delivering technical and operational excellence to our customer. Our values are: • Innovation: Ensuring operational and strategic advantage; • Commitment: Always delivering on our promises; • Integrity: A reliable and trusted partner with the highest professional and ethical standards; • Passion: Applying all our energy and focus to every task, recognising our role in providing mission critical capabilities; • Team Spirit: Harnessing our diversity and collective purpose to deliver competitive advantage to all of our stakeholders. We have a rich heritage of designing and producing missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future operational requirements for the three armed forces (army, navy, air force). We are proud to be a trusted partner to our armed forces and work with them to deliver a cutting-edge portfolio of products.
