Role: Communications Consultant: Integration Program Support

Location: Hybrid in Lakeville, MN (Tuesday - Thursday onsite)

Contract: 12-Months

Rate: $59-$88/hour W2, dependent on skills and qualifications

Overview:

The Integration Program is seeking a highly detail-oriented Communications Consultant to lead and manage complex communications activities across customer, supplier/vendor, and internal audiences. This role supports a large-scale integration effort requiring polished content creation, rigorous coordination, and structured governance. The consultant will work closely with business SMEs, sales communications partners, legal reviewers, and program leadership to ensure accurate, timely, and high-quality communications.

Key Focus Areas

• Customer Communications (approx. 30 percent)
• Supplier and Vendor Communications (approx. 5 percent)
• Internal Stakeholder Communications across multiple business units (approx. 65 percent)

Responsibilities

• Lead development, coordination, and delivery of communications across external and internal audiences.
• Draft clear, professional, and business focused communications tailored to multiple customer segments and business lines.
• Coordinate inputs from subject matter experts, sales communications partners, and cross functional business teams.
• Facilitate and manage the legal review process for external communications, working directly with legal partners.
• Support stakeholder engagement through meeting coordination, content preparation, and tracking of review cycles.
• Maintain communications plans, trackers, and documentation using Excel and Smartsheet.
• Ensure communications are aligned with program milestones, leadership expectations, and change impacts.
• Create polished PowerPoint materials for leadership updates and internal briefings.
• Maintain shared content repositories and documentation within SharePoint and Teams.
• Build strong working relationships across the integration team and broader business units.

Requirements

• Experience managing complex communications programs, ideally within consumer goods or a similar operational environment.
• Background supporting large scale transformation, post-merger integration, or multi business unit programs preferred.
• Exceptional attention to detail, quality, and accuracy.
• Strong relationship building skills and ability to influence without authority.
• Comfort operating independently while collaborating within a supportive team.
• Proficiency with SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Excel, Smartsheet, and PowerPoint.
• Strong writing, editing, and messaging skills with the ability to tailor content to diverse audiences.
• Experience coordinating multi step approval processes, including legal and senior leader review.
• Ability to manage high volume, high complexity workloads with tight timelines.