Communications Manager - Executive and Enterprise

Responsibilities

• Proactive Strategic Consultation & Counsel (50%)
• - Serves as a senior communications partner to enterprise leadership, providing strategic counsel and support consistent messaging and execution.
• - Engages leaders and key stakeholders early in the decision-making lifecycle to identify communication needs, assess stakeholder considerations, recommend messaging approaches and reduce risk.
• - Brings an enterprise lens to communication strategies to align and engage internal teams while creating compelling external narratives.
• Enterprise Storytelling & Narrative Leadership (30%)
• - Connects enterprise priorities to compelling, differentiated narratives that build organizational alignment on enterprise value and a growth mindset.
• - Contributes to the development and maintenance of enterprise messaging architecture, applying structure and best practices, to support alignment during complex moments and transformations.
• - Partners cross-functionally with Communications functional partners (e.g., Business Communications, Central Marketing, Agency) to deliver strategic storytelling, public relations, marketing activations, external engagement opportunities, and social/channel delivery for the enterprise narrative.
• - Supports the development of longer-range communications and activation plans, identifying opportunities to bring enterprise narratives to life through executive platforms, earned media, marketing campaigns, events and other high-impact moments.
• - Partners with agency teams and internal subject matter experts to develop briefs, shape creative and communications approaches, and coordinate integrated execution against enterprise priorities.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, or a related field.
• Experience 8+ years of progressive corporate communications experience, with significant, direct experience providing strategic counsel to C-suite and executive-level leaders. Experience supporting integrated communications campaigns, executive visibility programs, earned media strategies, agency partnerships and high-profile events or activations.
• Strategic Acumen: Demonstrated ability to understand business priorities, provide communications counsel, recommend practical solutions, and navigate complex matrixed environments.
• Enterprise Mindset: Demonstrated ability to connect business and functional priorities, identify interdependencies and support consistent messaging across internal and external audiences.
• Communication Mastery: Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, with proven ability to translate complex business issues into clear, engaging narratives for executive-level delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated success collaborating with integrated teams spanning internal comms, government relations, PR, brand marketing, and agency partners to deliver integrated communication plans.

Preferred

• Master's degree in communications, Business Administration (MBA), or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting issues management or public affairs communications.
• Experience in agriculture, food, or other regulated and/or manufacturing sectors.
• Experience leading, coaching and developing a team of communication professionals.

Benefits

• We provide a broad portfolio of benefits to keep you and your family at your best.