Manager, Strategy and Transformation Communication

To lead employee communications for enterprise-wide strategy and transformation communications. Responsible for influencing and overseeing the planning, implementation and measurement of complex change and strategy communications campaigns, and ensuring strategic alignment among teams and plans. 
 

• Lead, coach and develop a geographically dispersed team of Employee Communications professionals charged with informing and inspiring team members and driving business priorities within the enterprise.
• Lead cross-functional teams for key initiatives, including leading direct reports and non-direct reports.
• Serve as a partner and trusted advisor to executive leaders, providing insight, perspective and counsel on related communications strategies and issues. 
• Create, influence and oversee the planning, implementation and measurement of complex change and strategy communications campaigns, plans and tactics that are aligned to the company’s priorities, culture and values; ensure strategic alignment among teams and plans.
• Develop communication strategies to foster clear and timely information flow and help team members understand the programs, initiatives, and activities being communicated.
• Facilitate team’s partnership with business unit communicators on the implementation of enterprise employee campaigns, ensuring all communications strategies and tactics are consistent with the company’s strategic vision, messaging and brand. 
• Drive continuous improvement of communications plans, tactics and processes through disciplined measurement, analysis and adjustment; support team in translating metrics into actionable intelligence for the organization, and influence team in making data-driven decisions, and advocate for measurement within the organization. 
• Translate the identified communication needs of the business areas into unified communication plans and approaches.
• Develop communication strategies to foster clear and timely information flow and help employees understand the programs, initiatives, and activities being communicated.
• Oversee team in identifying and developing feedback mechanisms and indicators to measure the success of communications strategies and activities. 
• Ensure communications tools maximize the impact/effectiveness of communications and are aligned with corporate goals, objectives, vision, and mission.
• Partner with other corporate communications/public relations-cognizant areas to address common issues, share ideas, and identify and leverage enterprise-wide tools, standards, and shared resources.
• Perform supervisory/managerial responsibilities:
  • Ensure adequate/skilled staffing
  • Establish performance goals and priorities
  • Prepare, conduct and review performance appraisals
  • Develop, mentor and counsel staff
  • Provide input on budget requirements for Annual Financial Plan
  • Ensure team’s goals align with division/department strategy
  • Ensure efficiency of operations
  • Performs other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Marketing or related field  
• Advanced knowledge of and experiencing with change management principles and practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong judgement, problem solving and organizational skills, superb attention to detail and the ability to interpret business priorities in a simple, compelling way for diverse audiences across the company.
• Curious, analytical and willing to challenge the status quo.
• Seasoned people leader with a proven track record of managing the work of a large team, and empowering, motivating and developing them.
• Poised and approachable. Exceptional business acumen and significant experience in positively handling high-profile communications issues, demonstrating sound judgment and persuasive counseling to your team and to senior management.
• Strong project manager who lives by prioritization and attention to detail, and thrives in fast-paced environments where a typical day has you juggling multiple projects simultaneously, reprioritizing quickly and meeting deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong judgement, problem solving and organizational skills, superb attention to detail and the ability to interpret business initiatives in a simple, compelling way for diverse audiences across the company.
• Significant experience blending internal and external communications with a track record of developing, implementing and measuring successful communications plans in collaboration with cross-function teams, preferably for a large, complex organization
• Advanced knowledge of and experiencing with change management principles and practices.
• Experience proposing and piloti