Head of PR & Communications

Join a fast-growing company with a purpose! At Fastned you will actively contribute to accelerating the transition to electric mobility. Together with over 360 colleagues (more than 42 nationalities) across 9+ countries, we have big plans: we are building a Europe-wide network of 1,000 beautiful fast charging stations where electric drivers can charge their cars with energy from the sun and wind. We have recently been voted the best charging network in the UK, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, a testimony to our drive to offer the best charging experience to EV drivers!

Do you want to play an important role in driving the narrative of Fastned across our expanding markets in Europe? Are you a writer at heart? Do you want to play an essential role in defining, developing, and implementing our communication strategy to bring the Fastned story across to investors, customers, colleagues, and everyone else who wants to support the move to electric mobility? Read on to learn more about the Head of PR&Communications opportunity at Fastned! 

Your role

As our Head of PR & Communications you are in the driving seat to define and develop our PR and communication strategy to empower the voice of Fastned across a growing number of European countries (inc. UK). You will be reporting into our Director Marketing & Communications.

We are on a mission: While being optimistic we are changemakers and challenge the status quo. We know that media attention is available for those who bring something new or controversial to the discussion table. A key part of your role is to make sure we capture this media attention to create an opportunity to tell our story. You’ll do this by bringing a business mindset and instilling a sense of urgency among your PR & Communications team to create media coverage opportunities. 

The PR & Communications team plays a key role in shaping and sharing Fastned’s story — proactively creating campaigns, building our message house, following the news cycle, and driving media attention through initiatives like customer research. At the same time, your team actively engages in public debate, responding to negative or misinformed coverage about electric mobility or Fastned. By building relationships with both supportive and critical journalists, the team ensures Fastned’s voice is heard, strengthens our media presence, and contributes to a broader understanding of our mission and vision for the future.

Practically, this translates into steering the PR team in our headquarters and across our markets to deliver, among others, Fastned’s corporate communication in the form of annual and interim reports, our social media presence, PR campaigns targeted to drivers or other stakeholders and press releases. And there’s much more: you will create a strategy to elaborate on a wide range of topics related to Fastned, the energy transition and the charging industry for various audiences and channels, such as white papers, news articles, or speeches.

Your responsibilities include: 

• Owning Fastned communication strategy: internal & external and our channels from classic public relations to social media.

• You know what it takes to develop your team members, improving the quality of their work and their personal growth while setting direction. 

• You have experience creating an engaging, fun, and performance-driven team culture for your team of five PR managers, a social media manager, and additional third-party support.

• Creating PR messaging campaigns in line with meaningful topics in the industry.

• Managing the internal projects for the team.

• Working closely with the broader commercial team consisting of brand creative, marketing, and commercial development professionals.

• Working closely with our Board and Investor Relations team to inspire investors and to comply with governance regulations.

• Ensuring stakeholder alignment across the broader Fastned team (e.g., country managers, public affairs, legal, and network expansion).

The role is based in Amsterdam; however, some travelling is required with team members and key stakeholders in other Fastned markets. 

What do you bring along

You are intrinsically motivated by Fastned’s mission to accelerate the transition to electric mobility and are curious about the industry's latest developments. You bring the ability to inspire internal and external target audiences and build momentum for Fastned and the transition, both in writing and in speech!

Additionally, you tick the following boxes:

• Excellent team leadership: developing your team members, creating a motivating team culture, and designing the right structures, processes and KPIs.

• Good media relations by bringing in prime media contacts.

• Excellent stakeholder management.

• Ability to act as spokesperson and speech/interview coaching for Executive team members (esp. CEO Michiel Langezaal).

• 10+ years of experience in writing & communication management.

• A master's degree in business or from a technical university would be considered as beneficial.

• You have a self-starting mentality and are results-driven.

• Excellent communication in English (Dutch would be regarded as beneficial since we are stock-listed in the Netherlands).

Join us in building a better future!

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We focus on work-life balance, provide genuine work flexibility, and have family-friendly policies in place. Electric mobility is new territory for you? Don’t worry! As part of your onboarding, you will participate in a series of exciting workshops where you will learn everything about our industry and fast-charging infrastructure. Our benefits package includes:

• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.

• Pension plan (fully covered by Fastned).

• A training and development budget of €3,000 per year per employee, because development and training are important to us and our sector offers endless opportunities.

• In order to experience and enjoy the EV life, you get access to our fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered), which is also for private use.

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you two mission days you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations.

• Going the extra mile for parents: We provide you with personalised coaching support before, during, and after parental leave, facilitated by Foundree.

• Understanding women's health is beneficial for all of us, fostering empathy, improving communication, and creating a more inclusive workplace. That's why we teamed up with Flouria, providing you with quick access to a broad range of women's health professionals.

• Next to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties and organise an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees.

• Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the working gear of your choice.

We’re looking forward to your application!

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.