Senior Manager, Corporate Communications

About Hungerstation

Hungerstation is a member of the Delivery Hero Group, a leading local delivery platform operating in approximately 65 countries worldwide with headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX index. Our mission is to provide a fast, effortless delivery experience directly to your door.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Senior Manager for Corporate Communications to oversee daily operations of the communications function. This role demands someone who excels beyond basic communication skills — a disciplined operator capable of managing people, projects, timelines, events, reporting, and cross-functional delivery with speed, structure, and exceptional standards. This is an active execution position requiring strong leadership, prioritization, and the ability to advance work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high quality under pressure.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations of Corporate Communications by implementing structured processes, disciplined planning, and consistent follow-through.
• Translate leadership directives into clear plans that define priorities, schedules, responsible parties, and expected outputs.
• Develop and maintain tools such as trackers, dashboards, calendars, working documents, and status updates to ensure transparent monitoring of task progress.
• Establish a regular operating rhythm through ongoing follow-ups, progress reviews, reports, and clear accountability frameworks.
• Enhance workflows, templates, coordination mechanisms, and reporting standards to accelerate execution speed and clarity.
• Utilize Excel and reporting tools to support decision-making, manage initiative tracking, and ensure steady movement towards completion.
• Lead communication projects from inception through execution, wrap-up, and issue management.
• Create actionable project plans reflecting key milestones, dependencies, risks, deadlines, and ownership roles.
• Simultaneously manage multiple workstreams with detailed oversight to maintain momentum and quality.
• Identify and address delays, blockages, or execution deficiencies promptly to keep projects on schedule.
• Maintain effective collaboration with internal departments, external partners, agencies, and vendors through diligent follow-up, problem-solving, and escalation as necessary.
• Adopt a project management office mindset to instill order, clear ownership, visibility, and consistency across initiatives.
• Supervise and coordinate team members' efforts, set clear expectations, enforce tight quality checks, and encourage high standards of ownership, responsiveness, and professionalism.
• Coach team members to improve their planning, writing, judgment, and reliability skills.
• Plan and execute events, executive engagements, workshops, product launches, forums, and ceremonies, including managing timelines, logistics, vendors, production, branding, approvals, guest coordination, and onsite delivery.
• Facilitate public relations and media activities through content review and coordination efforts.
• Ensure flawless execution even under last-minute changes and high-pressure situations through disciplined follow-up and quality assurance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Media, Marketing, Business Administration, Project Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8 to 12 years of relevant experience across growth, performance, operations, corporate communications, public relations, communications operations, project management, events, or related areas.
• At least 3 to 5 years in managerial or senior supervisory roles with demonstrated leadership capabilities.
• Extensive experience managing projects end-to-end and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong practical skills in planning and executing communications initiatives.
• Proven excellence in team leadership and people management.
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including creating trackers, dashboards, reports, planning sheets, and follow-up tools.
• Effective presentation and public speaking abilities.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage pressure, juggle multiple priorities, and sustain rapid progress with high quality and organization.
• Experience working in dynamic, fast-paced, matrixed organizations.