[Hiring] Regional Corporate Affairs Manager @RBS

Role Description

Join us as a Regional Corporate Affairs Manager – South West & South East. You’ll support the development and implementation of an effective external communications plan, which brings the vital role NatWest plays across all nations and regions of the UK to life.

We’ll look to you to work collaboratively across the regional Corporate Affairs (CA) team to ensure consistency and efficiency in the planning and implementation of the regional communications plan, aligned with our Growing Together campaign. This is a high-profile role that offers considerable exposure as well as the opportunity to make a significant impact. We're offering this role for a period of 12 months.

What you'll do:

• Support the Head of Regional Affairs to deliver a compelling regional plan across the South West and South East of England, spanning media, political and other local stakeholders.
• Ensure local and regional issues that may impact our Group’s reputation are identified and flagged to inform decision making.
• Ensure targeted and relevant communications and engagement within each region through stakeholder mapping.
• Manage local engagements with elected officials, media, and our Group representatives.
• Provide support to the relevant Regional Board and regional engagement lead in the regional planning and execution phase.
• Build and utilise essential relationships with relevant CA functions including Internal Communications, Public Policy, Strategy and Planning, as well as adjacent functions such as Marketing to develop fully integrated plans.
• Work in partnership with all areas across the CA function to best support the delivery of the CA strategy.
• Work collaboratively across the Regional Affairs team in the development of best-in-class solutions.
• Utilise the resources of the broader CA teams to deliver on a regional basis.
• Build necessary working relationships with local political and media stakeholders and audiences to ensure the successful execution of the region's plan.
• Define and implement an effective communications plan within the relevant region including measurement against agreed objectives.

Qualifications

• Effective regional political and media stakeholder management experience.
• Experience managing constituency level engagement.
• Collaborative approach to facilitate working in a complex organisation with multiple stakeholders.

Requirements

• The ability to apply Project Management methodologies to create, manage and track plans.
• Detail oriented and highly organised, with the ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced and changeable environment.
• The ability to use data analysis, reporting and insights to drive simplification and create efficiencies across systems, processes and budget.

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

29/10/2026

Ways of Working

Remote First