Job description

Grant Thornton UAE seeks a Communications Manager within the Clients & Markets team to shape and protect the firm’s reputation, foster engagement, and drive strategic alignment through clear, consistent messaging. The role leads both internal and external communications with a strong internal focus, developing and implementing an integrated communications strategy aligned to growth ambitions, brand positioning, and reputation priorities. Responsibilities include acting as advisor to leadership on tone and narrative, ensuring all communications reflect Grant Thornton’s brand and tone of voice; partnering with a media agency to produce press releases, media statements, interviews, and features; managing media opportunities for Partners and subject matter experts; monitoring media coverage and sharing insights including reputation impact and share of voice; and supporting crisis and issue management with timely, accurate communication and narrative control. Internally, the role leads firmwide communications to build transparency and alignment, crafting leadership messages, announcements, internal campaigns, newsletters, and intranet content; partnering with People & Culture to drive internal storytelling that celebrates people, culture, and milestones; and coordinating townhalls and leadership communications with the Events Manager. The manager collaborates with the content manager to amplify thought leadership, supports senior leadership with speeches, talking points, and authored articles, and works with digital and creative teams to ensure consistent messaging across owned channels (website, LinkedIn, newsletters, internal platforms). As guardian of reputation and public narrative, the role aligns messaging with brand values and market perception, proactively identifies opportunities to strengthen brand equity and community trust, and supports initiatives tied to responsible business, diversity, and Emiratization agendas.