Global Communications Manager

Global Communications Manager

For our client, a worldwide leading company in the field of Automation, we are looking for an experienced Global Communications Manager.

**General Information**:
The company HR Transformation Program (HRTP) is a business-led initiative that helps underpin the company's Way operating model and the decentralized agenda. It’s a key step in modernizing the HR part of the legacy ERP estate, revamping people processes and data, creating an improved experience for employees, line managers, HR professionals, and applicants, and delivering sustainable benefits for the company globally.
The Communications and Content Lead sets the tone for the transformation and how it is experienced by company's stakeholders (100 000+ people across 80+ countries). Through impactful and brand-aligned communication, you help to engage the organization, explain changes that will be introduced and transparently inform about the progress in their deployment.

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Lead with courage
- Develop program’s communication strategy that will drive awareness, understanding, and engagement across all stakeholder groups
- Decide how to deliver it for the remaining program phases and within the allocated budget. Partner and advise to senior executives in their communication efforts related to the program
- Imagine and deploy the program’s identity and narrative. Create materials that will be used by all employees (production and non-production) and managers
- Collaborate to create. Define a communication framework for HRTP in a collaborative way and ensure alignment and agreement to it
- Partner with program SMEs to turn process and technical content to powerful and engaging stories and multimedia
- Manage and develop materials for program events, stakeholder engagement sessions, newsletters, web and SharePoint pages, blog posts, video scripts and other media that you determine as relevant
- Be the brand guardian and help other program members create compelling, consistent communication in line with the branding guidelines and program narrative
- Carefully listen and engage. Lead program events and community interactions
- Follow through on feedback received. Partner with other communication functions to ensure strategic global alignment
- Stay curious to innovate. Bring your fresh ideas for communication and engagement and lead the implementation of them

**Your Profile**:

- 8+ years of relevant experience, ideally in journalism, communications, public relations, marketing. Track record in transformation programs will be a plus
- Skilled storyteller with proven capability to strategize, plan, and create engaging content and communication campaigns
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and conceptual skills. Excellent in delivering communication and presentations.
- Solution-oriented and innovative mindset with a thorough understanding of how to engage audiences across all levels and create an outstanding experience across various target groups.
- Proven stakeholder and conflict management skills. Excellence in networking and influencing
- Hands-on approach to work, strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Demonstrated leadership, including virtual team leadership and organizational skills in a cross-cultural environment
- Sensitive to the requirements and interests of others and skilled in translating these needs into a coherent and practical communications program
- Knows from experience the importance of a brand and how it can drive cultural change
- Influencing decision-makers to support the need for communication through use of correct tone, style, and arguments
- Passion for quality and attention to detail
- Integrity when dealing with highly sensitive information and situations
- Tech-savvy with high learning agility
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment
- Collaborative working style appreciating the inclusion of geographies, levels, functions and cultures
- Professional proficiency in English

Sounds like a great job?