Corporate Sr. Marketing & Communications Lead - Executive Messaging

Responsibilities

• Communication Strategy & Planning - Advise executive leadership on strategic messaging, speeches, thought leadership, reputation and high-visibility communications while maintaining authentic executive voices. - Develop integrated communication strategies aligned with business objectives, audience needs, enterprise priorities, and desired outcomes. - Translate complex strategic, operational, technical, workforce, digital, or reputational topics into clear communication roadmaps, narratives, message frameworks, and channel plans. - Anticipate communication needs, stakeholder concerns, risks, and opportunities and recommend proactive approaches before issues arise. - Define objectives, audiences, messages, channels, sequencing, governance, responsibilities, and measures of success for assigned initiatives.
• Stakeholder Consulting & Trusted Partnership - Serve as a trusted communications advisor to assigned leaders, initiative owners, and subject-matter experts. - Diagnose business challenges and recommend communication solutions that address root needs rather than solely fulfilling requests. - Build credibility and influence without formal authority; facilitate alignment across stakeholders with varied priorities. - Handle confidential, sensitive, or high-visibility information with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.
• Messaging, Content & Storytelling - Develop clear, compelling, audience-centered messaging and content across written, presentation, digital, campaign, event, and multimedia formats. - Create narrative and message architectures that organize complex topics and reinforce a consistent enterprise voice and brand. - Adapt tone, voice, detail, and delivery for executives, managers, employees, candidates, field teams, technical audiences, or external stakeholders, as applicable. - Partner with team members, platform owners, and other contributors to produce integrated communication experiences.
• Campaign & Program Leadership - Lead communication programs and multi-channel campaigns from discovery and planning through execution, measurement, and closeout. - Coordinate resources, stakeholders, reviews, approvals, creative assets, publishing, deployment, and interdependencies. - Maintain strategic oversight during execution, resolve issues, and adjust plans as priorities and audience needs evolve. - Own quality, consistency, timeliness, and measurable outcomes for assigned work.
• Change Enablement & Adoption - Develop communication and stakeholder-engagement approaches that build awareness, understanding, readiness, participation, and adoption. - Help leaders communicate change effectively and reinforce key messages throughout implementation. - Assess communication or stakeholder risks and recommend actions that improve readiness and implementation success. - Introduce practical improvements and new approaches that strengthen engagement and adoption.
• Measurement & Continuous Improvement - Define communication objectives, KPIs, feedback methods, and evaluation approaches in partnership with analytics resources. - Evaluate effectiveness using campaign data, channel metrics, stakeholder feedback, audience insight, adoption measures, or business outcomes. - Translate findings into actionable recommendations that improve strategy, delivery, channels, standards, and future investments. - Share expertise, reusable practices, and lessons learned to strengthen MarCom capability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, English, Business, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic, corporate, executive, internal, change, operational, employee, digital, or marketing communications, or another directly related specialty.
• Demonstrated experience developing communication strategies that connect business objectives, audience needs, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience serving as a communications advisor to leaders and influencing cross-functional stakeholders in a complex or matrixed organization.
• Experience translating complex business, technical, strategic, workforce, or digital topics into clear narratives and audience-centered communications.
• Experience leading multi-channel campaigns or communication programs from planning through execution and evaluation.
• Experience supporting organizational change, enterprise initiatives, strategic programs, or technology or process adoption.
• Experience evaluating communication effectiveness through data, stakeholder feedback, performance metrics, or adoption outcomes.
• Exceptional writing, editing, presentation, facilitation, consultation, and stakeholder-partnership skills.
• Demonstrated judgment, discretion, adaptability, and ability to manage multiple high-priority assignments.

Preferred

• Experience partnering with executive leaders, regional teams, corporate functions, or field-based audiences.
• Experience in construction, engineering, professional services, or another operational industry.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 communication platforms, AI-enabled communication tools, analytics, content-management, or campaign technologies.
• Relevant specialty certification or credential, where applicable.

Benefits

• At Hensel Phelps, we invest in our people—professionally, personally, and financially. Employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support long-term well-being and career growth. Benefits offerings include medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; accidental death and dismemberment coverage; long-term disability; a 401(k)-retirement plan; and access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• We believe time away from work is essential to doing your best work. Employees are eligible for paid time off beginning upon hire, supporting rest, flexibility, and work-life balance.