Corporate Communications Lead

TransUnion

Corporate Communications Lead responsible for developing PR strategies and managing corporate reputation at TransUnion. Collaborating across teams to align messaging and oversee media relations, focusing on UK & Europe.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and maintain UK & Spain (Europe) PR strategy and ensure aligned to wider international and global frameworks/processes
Plan and coordinate activity around key topics and issues, bringing together business-wide campaigns that focus on regulatory and industry specific change
Support wider corporate, and communications (and marketing) strategy, including but not limited to product announcements, research insights/thought leadership, wider brand building activity, partner and employer of choice programs
Communicating our corporate comms strategy, messaging, content and importantly measurement to key stakeholders and ensuring alignment
Manage PR agencies in-region (which supports corporate, B2B and consumer work as needed) and other suppliers (e.g. monitoring and licensing)
Identify and coach on best practice interview procedure/technique with key senior spokespeople for corporate media opportunities (arranging external media training where required)
Develop junior talent (providing coaching to direct reports and mentoring support across wider Corporate Affairs and Communications function)
Be flexible and work across wider communication projects and activities as required
Report KPI and evaluation metrics in-region and internationally as required (ensuring activity aligned to achieving wider business strategic goals)
Maintain core materials necessary for the delivery of the ongoing corporate programme (e.g. overall strategy, tactical/activity planners, key message and briefing documents, media contact lists, issues trackers, capacity planning etc.)
Strong media awareness – opportunity spotting and providing insight to the wider business are key to this role (develop wider insight and feedback tools, including competitor tracking)
Be a key member of the crisis/incident communications team/DIRT (Data Incident Response Team)
Advise on wider related communication matters (speeches/events etc.) and provide ad-hoc ‘consultancy’ advice directly to senior team and wider Group functions as required
Support for priority client communications that impact our corporate reputation
Manage the in-region internal communications program, working closely with the Director of International Internal Communications
Enable wider internal and external stakeholder outreach as required, facilitating wider knowledge sharing and coordination for key initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong stakeholder management
Collaboration + relationship building
Quick assimilation of complicated and technical information
Highly developed creativity
Highly analytical and numerate
Ability to multi-task
Communication and influence
Wider horizon planning
Strong media knowledge
Well organised self-starter
Project management
Wider experience of combined campaigning (especially in relation to public affairs)
Knowledge of wider marketing disciplines (including social media)
Degree educated & relevant professional training

Benefits

Comp & perks

26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

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Hard Skills & Tools

PR strategy developmentcampaign planningKPI reportingmedia trainingcrisis communicationsstakeholder outreachproject managementregulatory changebrand buildingpublic affairs campaigning

Soft Skills

stakeholder managementcollaborationrelationship buildingcreativityanalytical skillscommunicationinfluencemulti-taskingorganizationself-starter

Certifications

degree educatedrelevant professional training