Adept marketing communications, by and large, determine a company’s image and shape the way it is perceived by clients, investors and employees. PR, IR and GR professionals are in great demand, and our clients commission many searches to fill these vacancies.

The Corporate Communications Practice of Pynes & Moerner handles the following vacancies:

PR Director
Director-level PR specialists monitor information, manage the company’s image in the market, and control and minimize risks to reputation. Each of these tasks has grown particularly important during the current economic crisis.

PR uses a toolkit different from that of Marketing or other promotion divisions. Thanks to these tools, function is able to counter challenges that marketing cannot cope with. Moreover, PR spends less than Marketing to solve the same problems.

Pynes & Moerner Consultants have successfully carried out search assignments for, amongst others, the following vacancies:

• PR Director, major telecommunications company
• PR Director, Russia’s leading business school
• PR Director, large FMCG company
• PR Director, Internet company
• PR Director, investment company

Investor Relations Director
Investor Relations Directors must be focused on raising the market capitalization of the companies they work for. To this end, adept IRs master all the communication channels to work with particular investors and the investment community on the whole.  These tools include road shows, one-on-one investor meetings, networking with industrial analysts, rating analysts and the media). A skillful Investor Relations professional will employ a wide range of skills, divided roughly into financial analysis and PR and communication abilities.

Pynes & Moerner consultants have accrued unique expertise in filling IR vacancies. The searches we have completed included:

• IR Director, independent oil company
• IR Director, major metals & mining company
• IR Director, major development company
• IR Director, large Russian bank

GR
Many companies have an obvious need to lobby their interests and solve problematic issues which may arise as a result of administrative regulations and government and authority activities. Hence we see increasing demand for GR specialists. More often than not GR people have no public recognition, and it is hard to evaluate their networking opportunities and influence abilities. Pynes & Moerner consultants, however, possess the expertise and contacts necessary to complete searches for successful GRs.