External Affairs Manager

Join one of Australia’s most visionary real estate powerhouses. For over 60 years, Lendlease has been reshaping skylines and transforming communities – crafting award-winning urban precincts and managing billions in funds and assets for some of the world’s largest real estate investors. We live our values: respect, integrity, innovation, collaboration, excellence, and trust.

Ready to shape narratives that matter? Lendlease has a fantastic opportunity for an External Affairs Manager to join its Melbourne team and drive reputation excellence across its Victorian operations and beyond. As a key part of the national Corporate Affairs team, you’ll be responsible for creating compelling integrated communications, media, and stakeholder strategies across multiple business units and projects. Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and deliver Lendlease’s external affairs strategy for Victoria and other states, including media, communications, issues management and industry engagement activities
• Execute communications strategies and campaigns in collaboration with teams across projects, marketing and corporate affairs to bring bold visions to life
• Media management across the business, building and nurturing relationships with relevant property, business, urban affairs and trade media
• Provide state-wide issues management support
• Collaborate with relevant business leads and corporate affairs team on high impact state government and industry relations activities
• Support business leaders to prepare for external engagements including speaking events, roundtables and interviews
• Produce communications materials including media releases, briefing notes, and other content for reports, website and social media and anticipate communications needs across projects and milestones

About you:

You will be a proactive communicator who thrives in high-energy environments with strong stakeholder management skills. You’ll have the ability to manage multiple priorities and fast-moving situations and issues, with strong media management skills. You will also have:

• Ideally 5-7 years of experience in media or communications, including direct media engagement 
• Demonstrated issues management experience
• Ability to identify and foresee emergent issues to mitigate reputational and business risk
• Demonstrated ability to identify newsworthy topics and story angles, pitch to media and manage incoming enquiries
• Ability to develop strong partnerships with peers to remain up to date with current opportunities and issues
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to disseminate information, facilitate decision making and build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in marketing, communications, journalism and/or public relations

Benefits of working at Lendlease:

• Health & Well-being program, including well-being leave to relax and recharge, health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts
• Balance your career and personal life with work flexibility, purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits. 
• 26 weeks paid parental leave for both parents. 
• 3x extra Wellbeing days per year (on top of annual leave). 

At Lendlease we offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equitable treatment and equitable opportunity are just the norm. We remain committed to supporting under-represented groups and providing a wide range of inclusion initiatives, so that everyone is supported to thrive.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, our Bronze Award with the Australian Workplace Equality Index by Pride in Diversity, and our generous parental leave policy of 26 weeks to any parent regardless of gender.

Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.