Corporate Communications Specialist

Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities.

Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit .

Brightstar Lottery is seeking a highly skilled, enthusiastic communications strategist to join our team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Corporate Communications, based in Providence, RI. As a part of our Corporate Communications team, this position will support Brightstar’s worldwide public relations initiatives, which will include work for our Global Lottery and Sustainability teams. You will have the unique opportunity to work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders in marketing, sales and operations, people & culture, government relations/public affairs, as well as Brightstar customers and senior executives from around the world to:

• Develop communications plans and execute campaigns for sustainability achievements and certifications, and annual sustainability activities such as Global Giving Month.
• Provide significant communications support for the annual Brightstar Sustainability Report.
• Draft news releases related to our Global Lottery business and Global Sustainability achievements.
• Develop strategic public relations and communications activities for Brightstar Global Lottery products and solutions, with a focus on iLottery and Instant Ticket Printing.
• Identify new, exciting ways to increase internal and public awareness of Brightstar’s global leadership in sustainability.
• Incorporate Brightstar’s Sustainable Play™ brand throughout a variety of internal and external communications including social media, websites, editorials and awards programs.
• Support content development for Brightstar’s corporate website and corporate communications’ intranet site.
• Develop and enhance processes for collecting, publishing and updating key facts and data about Brightstar that demonstrate the company’s industry leadership.

The ideal candidate:

• Is a self-starter, results-oriented, resourceful and possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Maintains a global mindset and capacity to interface successfully across time zones and cultures.
• Demonstrates a can-do attitude, the capacity to think critically, and a solutions-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Is a strategist capable of leading initiatives versus taking a tactical approach that requires continual direction.
• Is familiar with or interested in sustainability initiatives and understands sustainability and ESG criteria.
• Can take complex material and distill it to easily digestible and understandable information to a variety of audiences.
• Takes ownership of communications initiatives, demonstrating an ability to initiate ideas, sell them internally in a matrixed organization and drive them to measurable results.
• Has media relations experience and can identify and develop unique news hooks to maintain positive relationships with media.
• Has experience in using AI in innovative and/or efficient ways to achieve communications objectives.
• Exhibits good judgement and strategic thinking, as this role is highly visible internally and externally.

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