YOUR CAREER AT ORCA VAN LOON

You are looking for more than just a job in communications? At ORCA van Loon, you will find a dynamic team of communications experts who achieve great things together. In our owner-managed agency near Hafencity, we offer you exciting development opportunities, flat hierarchies and real creative freedom.

From day one, you will work on challenging projects for notable clients. You will benefit from our mentoring program and regular training. We practice an open feedback culture and support you in developing your full potential.

Become part of our crew!

BENEFITS

What we do every day is more than just work for us. This is based on our corporate values: we want to sit with people every day who we enjoy being with. As an owner-managed communications consultancy that has been successfully operating in the market for three generations, a family atmosphere is therefore incredibly important to us. We have always lived this way. And that is precisely what sets us apart.

That's why we take great care to ensure that every new ORCA really fits into our corporate culture. And part of this culture is that we plan our teams so that all of us can provide our own consulting services within fair working hours – even if, of course, there are occasional peak project phases. The fact that we can flexibly do our work from home or anywhere is a matter of course for us.

Our other key benefits at a glance:

Company pension plan

Eigene Mastercard mit 50 EUR monatlichem Verfügungsbudget

Volle Kostenübernahme für öffentliche Verkehrsmittel

Home office and flexible working hours

Special leave for personal
occasions (e.g. moving, marriage, birth)

Company health insurance including
an annual health budget of €750

360°-Feedbacksystem mit jährlichen Gesprächen zur individuellen Weiterentwicklung

Group accident insurance for
business and private disability/death

FURTHER TRAINING

At ORCA van Loon Communications, you can expect challenging tasks that will challenge you. Through this intensive on-the-job training, we guarantee one thing: a steep learning curve. No matter whether you start as a trainee or a consultant. To ensure that we maintain our high-quality standards, we provide you with targeted support outside of your daily business. At our ORCA Diving Lab, you will dive into exactly the topics you need to make targeted progress. This way, we enable you to develop at your own pace and in line with your requirements.

At the same time, our ORCA mentoring program promotes your personal growth and ensures that you integrate well into the team from day one. That's why our ORCA Swim School provides new colleagues with a “Leitwal” from day one. This contact person supports you in your professional and personal development and ensures that we support you according to your strengths. To do this, they are your neutral sparring partner and source of inspiration.

Strategy, consulting, digital boot camp: topics like these don't fit into a 60-minute slot. That's why we dedicate entire workdays to them – internally and externally, away from the daily grind and togetherwithour ORCA partners.

Time to inspire! We can only advise our customers on new trends if we understand them. That's why we regularly show our colleagues and experts the reputation management of tomorrow. Across disciplines and open-ended.

Alles wird digital. Aber eins bleibt gleich: Kommunikation findet zwischen Menschen statt. Daher ermöglichen wir dir nach Absprache die Teilnahme an Konferenzen. Ganz gleich ob Kommunikationskongress, OMR oder Social Media Week.

DEVELOPMENT STAGES

Warum wir mit jährlichen 360°-Feedbackgesprächen und konkreten Zielvereinbarungen arbeiten? Einfache Antwort: Damit wir alle uns stetig weiterentwickeln und an unseren Aufgaben wachsen können. Was wir dabei von unseren verschiedenen Karriereleveln erwarten, haben wir daher klar in unserem Qualitätshandbuch definiert. So wissen alle, worauf sie hinarbeiten können und was von ihnen für den nächsten Karrieresprung erwartet wird:

Trainee

Our trainees have a bachelor's or master's degree. During their studies and through internships, they have already gained initial experience in public relations or journalism. After a structured on-boarding with their personal “Leitwal”, they are already supporting our clients in their project work after just a few weeks. The range of their tasks is as diverse as the industries of our clients: content editing, collaboration on strategy development, ongoing contact with journalists and multipliers, research, analysis and evaluation, as well as initial consulting with clients in a protected space.

Within this framework, they independently take on sub-projects and work with clients and service providers. Their intensive twelve-month on-the-job training ensures a steep learning curve on their way to becoming junior consultants. Your guide will be there to answer all your organizational and technical questions. In this way, this contact person ensures that you are introduced to the agency's processes, instruments, organizational procedures and quality standards.

Our junior consultants have in-depth knowledge in their areas of expertise. They advise our clients independently in the context of projects and maintain relationships with clients at the operational level. They independently carry out projects and tasks within given time, capacity and cost schedules and work on billing and project controlling processes. In addition, they develop and create project concepts for measures up to the presentation stage for the client. They also take responsibility for the induction and integration of our trainees as part of the ORCA mentoring program.

Our consultants have excellent subject-matter expertise. They have at least three years of professional experience and advise our clients independently, strategically and methodically. In addition, they develop concepts for challenging communicative situations and are able to solve the entire spectrum of tasks for our clients. They manage and control the implementation of projects, determine the processes through to billing, and are responsible for the quality of their team's work. They are also responsible for the quality and development of client relationships. Furthermore, they conduct budget negotiations together with our senior consultants and partners.

Our senior consultants are responsible for providing strategic advice to our clients. They have many years of experience and are characterized by particular strategic strength and expertise in their areas of expertise. Accordingly, as account directors, they also take responsibility for the sales, earnings and costs of their teams' overall budgets. They are also important cultural ambassadors in the company: together with the consultants, they help our employees grow and pass on knowledge and experience within the agency. At the same time, they are actively involved in positioning ORCA van Loon Communications in the market and in new business acquisition.

TRAINEESHIP

Du fragst dich, warum wir Next Generation Corporate Next Generation Corporate? Well, there are two reasons: not only are we the only communications consultancy in Germany that is successfully managed by its third generation of owners, what makes us incredibly proud.

Sondern es ist auch schon seit 1958 unser Anspruch, Corporate Communications jeden Tag wieder neu zu denken. Denn Kommunikation entwickelt sich schneller den je. Und wir alle wissen: die nächste Herausforderung für strategische Kommunikation lauert schon längst hinter der nächsten Ecke – und wartet nur auf uns. Aber das Coole daran: Wir freuen uns auf sie! Diese zwei Punkte bringen wir als Team Tag für Tag zusammen: als Next Generation Corporate.

Daher haben wir schon lange eine klare Philosophie: Auch erfahrene Berater*innen müssen immer schneller Neues lernen. Und wer könnte ihnen dabei besser helfen als Young Professionals, die sehr viel näher an all den neuen Entwicklungen dran sind?

Daher hören sich bei uns alle gegenseitig zu – ganz unabhängig von Alter, Level und Hierarchie. Denn was bei uns zählt, ist die beste Idee. Und die kommt nicht selten von denjenigen, die in anderen Bahnen denken, und mit neuen Lösungen. Das macht dich als Young Professional zu einem unglaublich wichtigen Teil von unserem langfristigen Erfolg als Unternehmen.

Gleichzeitig sollst du lernen, strategisch zu beraten und Kund*innen zu führenn – und das lehrt uns die Uni nicht immer, denn für uns hat zielgerichtetes Beraten wahnsinnig viel mit Psychologie zu tun. Und dafür ist in unserem Traineeship Zeit:

Your traineeship...

VALUES

At ORCA van Loon Communications, you can expect challenging tasks that will challenge you. Through this intensive on-the-job training, we guarantee one thing: a steep learning curve. No matter whether you start as a trainee or a consultant. To ensure that we maintain our high-quality standards, we provide you with targeted support outside of your daily business. At our ORCA Diving Lab, you will dive into exactly the topics you need to make targeted progress. This way, we enable you to develop at your own pace and in line with your requirements.

At the same time, our ORCA mentoring program promotes your personal growth and ensures that you integrate well into the team from day one. That's why our ORCA Swim School provides new colleagues with a “Leitwal” from day one. This contact person supports you in your professional and personal development and ensures that we support you along your strengths. To do this, they are your neutral sparring partner and source of inspiration:

Partnership

We maintain a trusting and long-term dialog with our clients and their stakeholders, based on mutual respect. We identify with our clients – without, however, losing the critical distance necessary for our consulting work.

Authenticity

We stand up for our convictions. We develop the trust of our clients through constructive dialog. We have acquired our expertise and professionalism over many years, in a close interlinking of consulting and implementation.

Passion

Lasting and special quality can only be achieved through passion. That is why it is the decisive driving force behind our success: in our relationships with our customers, in our consulting and implementation, and in the evaluation of our work.

Creativity

We demand and promote targeted creativity. Although only strategically planned communication solutions strengthen reputation and become entrepreneurial value drivers – without creativity they do not stand out from the vast amount of content.

Curiosity

When communication markets change, we lead the way for our customers. That is why we not only know the latest trends and developments in corporate communication, opinion forming and social media. We also understand them – and incorporate them into our daily work.

Solidarity

We are not successful as individuals, but only as a team. When things go wrong, we don't look for someone to blame, but for ways to improve together. We don't just work together, we are part of a family. Anyone who has ever been part of ORCA van Loon Communications knows that.