Responsibilities

• Communications Assessment and Roadmap: Assess current communications practices, channels, audiences, tools, and gaps, and translate findings into a phased communications roadmap
• SAH Communications Strategy: Develop and execute a cohesive communications strategy across SAI, SMX, and SGU, aligning priorities, messaging, channels, and calendars while partnering with subsidiary leaders on local needs
• Operating Model and Governance: Establish the annual plan, editorial calendar, intake process, approval workflows, channel standards, decision rights, and content governance model
• Standards and Toolkits: Create templates, playbooks, and service standards that improve communication quality, consistency, and speed
• Enterprise Coordination: Establish a communications operating rhythm with leaders, Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketing, Legal, Safety, Sustainability and Facilities (SSF), and subsidiary contacts
• Continuous Function Development: Recommend improvements aligned with the company’s evolving needs, maturity, and resources
• Employee Communications: Develop and execute clear, timely, and actionable communication plans for enterprise priorities, organizational updates, and major initiatives
• PASSION2035 Communications: Bring PASSION2035, the Sakata Group’s ten-year long-term business plan, to employees across SAI, SMX, and SGU. Translate the Group key statement and strategy into audience-centered messaging, sequence communications across town halls, the intranet, leader toolkits, and campaigns, equip leaders to discuss the plan, and sustain the narrative over the life of the plan
• All-Employee Town Halls: Own end-to-end planning and execution of all-employee town halls, including cadence, agenda, speaker preparation, content, production, employee Q&A, post-event communications, and effectiveness measurement, partnering with Executive Administration, Information Technology, Human Resources, SSF, and subsidiary teams
• Content Development: Write, edit, and publish leadership messages, announcements, newsletters, intranet stories, FAQs, presentations, talking points, video scripts, and town hall materials

Requirements

• Exceptional Communication: Outstanding writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation skills, with a strong command of business English
• Strategic and Hands-On Capability: Connects communications to business priorities and moves fluidly from planning and advising to writing, publishing, and measuring
• Builder’s Mindset: Creates structure, tools, and momentum where communications infrastructure is limited
• Brand Governance: Understands visual and verbal identity standards, asset control, and approval practices
• Digital Workplace Proficiency: Understands intranet and content-management platforms, information architecture, permissions, analytics, and adoption; Microsoft 365 proficiency strongly preferred
• Change Communications: Develops audience-centered change plans that address stakeholder impacts, leader readiness, and adoption
• Measurement and Analytics: Establishes meaningful metrics, interprets quantitative and qualitative data, and uses insights to improve outcomes
• Project Management: Manages multiple priorities, complex stakeholders, vendors, and firm deadlines with strong organization and follow-through
• Influence and Collaboration: Builds trust and alignment without direct authority across subsidiaries, functions, cultures, and time zones
• Judgment and Confidentiality: Exercises discretion and sound judgment, with the confidence and diplomacy to advise and appropriately challenge senior stakeholders

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, or a related discipline strongly preferred; equivalent directly related experience may be considered
• Communications Experience: Demonstrated success in corporate, internal, executive, or change communications required; experience communicating a long-term business plan to a distributed workforce strongly preferred
• Function-Building Experience: Experience building or significantly improving a communications function, processes, or channels strongly preferred
• Intranet and Digital Content Experience: Practical experience evaluating, implementing, or managing intranet or employee-communication platforms strongly preferred
• Organizational Experience: Experience in a parent, holding, or multi-subsidiary company and across countries or cultures preferred
• Industry Experience: Experience in agriculture, seed, manufacturing, life sciences, or another B2B environment desirable but not required
• Language Proficiency: Professional English proficiency required; additional languages welcome

Benefits

• Health & Wellness
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Philanthropic Giving Program
• Disability Insurance (plans vary by location)
• Financial Benefits
• 401(k) Program + Company Match
• Profit Sharing Program (via 401(k)
• Holiday Bonus