# Communications Manager résumé example

Seven years of PR and corporate communications, including a career break kept on the page rather than hidden.

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- Field: Marketing
- Career stage: Mid level
- Written for: United States
- Design: Amethyst (https://cvaurum.com/templates/polished)
- Open it: https://cvaurum.com/examples/communications-manager

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## Erin Doherty — Communications Manager

Communications manager with seven years across agency public relations and in-house corporate communications, accredited by PRSA. Placed 78 stories in a year for an outdoor brand and took its trade-press share of voice from 8% to 17%.

### Experience

**Communications Manager**, Alderpine Outdoors · September 2023 – present

Runs media relations, executive communications and internal comms for an outdoor gear brand of 400 staff.

- Placed 78 stories in 2024, three of them national features that together drove 61,000 site sessions in a single week.
- Led communications on a 9,000-unit stove recall; all 12 outlet enquiries were answered inside four hours and coverage stayed factual.
- Rewrote the executive messaging house and prepared four spokespeople; share of voice in trade press rose from 8% to 17%.
- Started an internal newsletter now read by 84% of staff, retiring an all-hands slide deck that 9% of them opened.

**Family caregiving and freelance communications**, Career break · June 2022 – August 2023

- Took 14 months to care for a parent after surgery, keeping two retainer clients throughout for launch announcements and executive bylines.
- Earned the Accreditation in Public Relations during the break, passing the panel presentation and examination in one attempt.

**Senior Account Executive**, Sparrowhill Communications · February 2019 – May 2022

- Ran public relations for six B2B clients, securing 210 placements in three years, 34 of them in national outlets.
- Took a manufacturing client from 4% to 15% share of voice in 18 months with a research report that produced one story a quarter.
- Wrote the crisis playbook the agency now runs as a paid onboarding deliverable; four clients used it live in its first year.

**Account Coordinator**, Tidewell Public Affairs · June 2017 – January 2019

- Rebuilt media lists of 4,000 journalists around beats rather than outlets, taking pitch-to-placement from 3% to 9%.
- Drafted 60 press releases and the quarterly coverage report across three accounts.

### Education

- B.A. Strategic Communication · University of Minnesota Twin Cities · September 2013 – May 2017

### Skills

- **Media**: Media relations, Press materials, Spokesperson training, Editorial pitching, Trade press
- **Corporate**: Crisis communications, Executive ghostwriting, Internal comms, Issues monitoring, Message houses
- **Measurement**: Share of voice, Message pull-through, Coverage quality scoring, Muck Rack, Cision