By Best Buy September 20, 2024

As a Public Relations contract worker, you'll join the energetic and fast-paced External Communications team. You will work with the External Communications team to tell the story of Best Buy, including helping with proactive and reactive media relations, holiday content planning and creation, media monitoring, and more. You'll have access to media monitoring tools to compile daily news coverage reports, as well as report on news & pop culture trends to identify relevant proactive media outreach opportunities.

This opportunity runs from October to the end of January 2025. It's a hybrid role, meaning you must be located within a drivable distance to our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You'll be asked to come into the office 3 days per week. This role does not have the potential to lead to a full-time opportunity. Housing will not be provided.

What you'll do

• Build media relationships, prep spokespeople and manage internal partnerships
• Research, compile and maintain ongoing media contact lists
• Build pitch materials to showcase key campaigns and drive-times
• Support holiday initiatives, including content and media relations
• Draft external communication materials that support brand campaigns, key drive-times and company announcements
• Interview employees that help tell stories that support brand initiatives
• Field incoming media requests
• Actively participate in weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings and brainstorms within the communications department

Basic qualifications

• Pursuing or completed a bachelor's or associate's degree from an accredited college/university
• Must be able to work in the Richfield, MN corporate office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
• Must be able to commit to being no more than 2 hours driving distance from the Minneapolis Corporate Campus – 7601 Penn Ave South Richfield, MN 55423
• Must be able to work 30 to 40 hours a week Monday-Friday between the hours of 8am-5pm
• Must be able to commit to the role from October to the end of January
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization

Preferred qualifications

• Experience writing and editing content for various audiences and/or vehicles
• Excellent verbal communication and writing skills
• Ability to work in a hybrid team environment on assignments with overlapping priorities and schedules

If interested, please reach out to Press@bestbuy.com with your resume.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers' homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.