Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, development, messaging and execution for the aeronautics business to advance our brand and reputation.
• Excel at collaboration within our company but also with our many customer communities.
• Partner with communications leadership on the development of communications strategy – internal and external – to drive performance, reputation and engagement.
• Partner with functional team peers on the development of content in support sector and enterprise priorities.
• Partner with Strategy and Business growth leadership on the development of our sector integrated marketing strategy, including positioning in key priority growth areas.
• Lead and mentor a small team of dedicated program communications professionals to help them achieve success in their roles; work with individual team members to support their professional development and goals; be an advocate for the communications team, and for cutting-edge resources.
• Work closely with customers on integrated communications planning and implementation.
• Have a deep understanding of communications trends, best practices and technologies to reach broad audiences.
• Have a deep understanding of budgets and manage the team’s budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Marketing, Communications, Business or other liberal arts field
• Must have at least 10 years of experience in communications, media, marketing, and/or public relations
• Experience leading or managing cross-functional teams
• Strong writing skills with experience tailoring messages to a variety of audiences, particularly in translating one message for a diverse range of stakeholders
• Expertise in strategic communications planning, including the development of measurable objectives and associated KPIs
• Proven experience in building productive working relationships with functional and/or business leaders, including customers
• Familiarity with communications measurement tools and best practices
• Strong judgment and ability to remain agile in a fast-moving environment with rapidly shifting priorities
• Budget management experience
• Experience leading and mentoring individuals in their professional development

Preferred

• Aerospace and defense industry experience, with a familiarization of DoD and Global government customers.
• Excellent collaboration and presentation skills as well as the ability to effectively interface with and influence all levels of management
• Excellent speechwriting skills, with experience in developing executive level content, talking points and statements
• Ability to support and enhance strong communications standards, workflows and branding guidelines
• Excellent project management skills

Benefits

• flexible working schedules 9/80
• phenomenal learning opportunities
• exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers
• very friendly team environment
• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO)