Overview
Develops the external corporate communications strategy, including media strategy, executive leadership messaging, environmental, social, governance reporting and crisis communications.
Responsibilities
- Prepares voice-of-the-C-suite talking points, press releases and other materials.
- Oversees ongoing communications in support of labor relations
- Supports media relations strategy and direct news flow, including proactive and reactive opportunities with global and trade publications.
- Develops the Company’s ESG report and related materials, working in collaboration with key stakeholders around the company
- Represents the company as a spokesperson as appropriate on issues that affect the company, its reputation, and the competitive environment in which it operates with a specific focus on CVG, MIA and ANC markets.
- Actively engages with key influencers in the communities in which we do business to drive the company’s business and workforce development objectives.
- Ensures ongoing coordination with Internal Communications.
- Actively drives company’s crisis communications activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with concentration in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or business-related field preferred
- Demonstrated expertise with a minimum of 10 years’ experience in creating and implementing comprehensive internal and external communication strategies
- Expertise should include experience in executive communications, public relations, media relations, public affairs, labor relations, event planning, crisis communications and reputation management with ability to scale.
- Industry and labor relations experience preferred.
Special demands:
- Typically requires overnight travel 10-15% of the time.
Skills:
- Exceptional writing, critical thinking, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellence in communications best practices, standards and vehicles.
- Ability to oversee a high volume of projects with an agile, collaborative approach and ability to guide team through a fast-moving internal and external environment.
- Drives change in a matrixed organization, understand priorities, and manage multiple projects.
- Advanced editing and proofreading skills, along with a focus on rapid and flawless execution delivering against deadlines.
- Comfortable in a highly interactive, dynamic, collaborative work environment.
- Approachable and willing to engage with diverse personalities and stakeholders, including colleagues, customers, business partners, industry associations, community leaders, agency partners, and the public.
- Demonstrated capability to utilize balanced judgment in assessing the likely impact of messaging within the organization, and effectively adjusting the message as needed to achieve the required objective.
- Attention to detail and ability to create clear strategies and plans for success with recommend prioritization and changes to plan to optimize results.
- Can drive change and succeed in a matrixed organization, understand priorities, and manage multiple tracks of business.
- Proven ability to motivate others, including team members who are not direct reports.
- Experience writing for executives and their teams.
- Experience developing communications in support of labor relations.
Salary Range: $121,600- $164,300
Financial offer within the stated range is contingent on the qualification of selected candidates
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