Editor-in-chief and Head of Editorial Steering

Join our dynamic team as Editor-in-chief and Head of Editorial Steering in the Communications and Public Policy (CP) department. In this pivotal role, you will build up and lead an editorial steering team, driving the execution of our communication strategies. Your responsibilities include establishing and optimizing editorial planning, project staffing, and communications controlling processes across CP and regions. You'll play a key role in evaluating and approving incoming communication requests and proposals while ensuring strategic alignment and target setting for all editorial activities. As the Managing Editor, you will harmonize, oversee and ultimately decide daily editorial operations, collaborating with various teams within CP.

In your new role you will:

- Build up and **lead an editorial steering team **within Communications and Public Policy (CP)
- Be responsible for setting up and continuously improving editorial planning, project staffing, and communications controlling routines across all CP teams and regions.
- **Monitor **, **evaluate **, and ultimately **approve incoming communication requests **from business stakeholders as well as communications proposals from within CP
- Be responsible that **topics and projects are properly staffed **to ensure impactful communications towards all relevant target groups on all relevant channels
- Advise and monitor topic owners
- in order to **ensure **a consistent **strategic alignment **, **target setting **and **outcome evaluation **for all editorial activities
- Manage and oversee **daily alignment of all publishing activities across CP **, acting as the Managing Editor and coordinating between members of all relevant teams within CP
- Be the **business owner **, responsible for the continuous rollout, establishing, and maintaining routines on an editorial planning tool

You absorb information quickly, evaluate it from different angles and make new connections. You communicate in a sympathetic manner, are convincing and get to the heart of complex issues. Your decisions demonstrate a profound understanding of strategic priorities and business relevance. As a result, you succeed in establishing trusting and constructive cooperation with your stakeholders.

You are best equipped for this task if you have:

- A degree in **communications or journalism **or related fields
- A minimum of **6 years of relevant work **experience, **preferably in a corporate or publishing house’s newsroom, including leadership experience
- Excellent **editorial skills**:

- **Profound **understanding **and up-to-date overview of **current political and economic events**:

- **A **self-confident attitude **and confident interaction **with global stakeholders **are required**:

- **Strong **strategic, management, communication and leadership as well as analytic skills**:

- **High level of empathy **to quickly understand complex situations and to mediate between conflicting interests of the professional audience**:

- **Excellent language skills in **English **and **German **are a must**

In our headquarters in Neubiberg near Munich, more than 6000 employees are working in research & development, several central functions, IT and many more.

**Driving decarbonization and digitalization. Together.**

The **Communications & Public Policy (CP) **team tells the story of Infineon. Our responsibility is to spread the word about what makes Infineon special and shed light on the different ways in which microelectronics make the world more livable. Our stakeholders have different backgrounds and interests, therefore messages are adapted to specific internal and external target groups and the respective channel. The CP team spans all regions and is centrally organized along Corporate Communications, Public Policy, Strategy & CEO Communications and Center of Excellence.

**We are on a journey to create the best Infineon for everyone.**
This means we embrace diversity and inclusion and welcome everyone for who they are. At Infineon, we offer a working environment characterized by trust, openness, respect and tolerance and are committed to give all applicants and employees equal opportunities. We base our recruiting decisions on the applicant´s experience and skills.
We look forward to receiving your resume, even if you do not entirely meet all the requirements of the job posting.
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