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

Your own Mastercard with a monthly
spending budget

Allowance for public
transportation

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° feedback system with semi-annual meetings for
individual development

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.

Everything is going digital. But one thing remains the same: communication takes place between people. That's why at least two conferences a year are mandatory for all ORCAs. No matter whether it's a communications congress, OMR or Social Media Week.

DEVELOPMENT STAGES

Why do we work with six-monthly 360° feedback sessions and specific target agreements? The simple answer is so that we can all continue to develop and grow with our tasks. We have therefore clearly defined what we expect from our various career levels in our quality manual. This way, everyone knows what they can work towards and what is expected of them for the next career step:

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

Are you wondering why we are 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.

But it is also our claim since 1958 to adapt corporate communications to the next development in our communication every day. And we all know: the next challenge for strategic communication has been lurking just around the corner for a long time – just waiting for us. But the cool thing about it: we are looking forward to it! These two points are what we bring together as a team day after day: as a next-generation corporate.

Digitization is probably the biggest step for all of us in this regard. But who knows today what tomorrow will bring? That's why we have a clear philosophy: even experienced consultants today have to learn new things faster and faster. And who could help them better than young professionals who are even closer to all the new developments?

That's why we all listen to each other – regardless of age and hierarchy. Because what counts for us is the best idea. And it often comes from those who think differently and come up with new solutions. That makes you, as a young professional, an incredibly important part of our long-term success as a company.

At the same time, you will learn to be a strategic consultant – something we don't always learn at university, because for us, targeted consulting has a lot to do with psychology. And there is time for that in our traineeship:

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.