Director, Communications & Public Relations

Responsibilities

• Shape Casey’s Story & Reputation: Own Casey’s public relations, media and reputation strategy, serving as a key spokesperson and identifying compelling opportunities to tell Casey’s story while guiding communications through high-profile and sensitive situations.
• Advise & Influence: Serve as a trusted communications advisor to senior leadership, including the CEO, translating business priorities into compelling narratives and high-impact executive communications that connect with key audiences.
• Engage Our Team Members: Lead Casey’s internal communications and engagement strategy, building an effective communications ecosystem that connects team members to our strategy, leaders and culture while continuously improving through insights and results.
• Make an Impact in Our Communities: Lead Casey’s charitable giving strategy and partnerships, ensuring investments, campaigns and sponsorships create meaningful impact in the communities we serve while aligning with company priorities.
• Bring Big Moments to Life: Lead Casey’s annual company conference and other strategic events, overseeing strategy, content, budget, experiences and cross-functional partnerships that bring the Casey’s story to life.
• Lead People, Partners & Performance: Lead and develop a high-performing communications team while overseeing external agency partners and establishing goals and reporting that demonstrate the impact of communication initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, Business Communications, Journalism, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience in public relations, strategic communications, or a related discipline.
• Deep expertise in media strategy, reputation management, public relations, narrative development, and event experiences.
• Experience advising and influencing senior executives on complex, high-visibility communications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and develop talent while building a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong judgment and the ability to quickly understand complex topics, ask the right questions, identify what matters most, and translate it into a compelling narrative.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders across different levels and functions of a complex organization.
• A forward-thinking, solutions-oriented approach with the ability to move between strategy and execution.

Preferred

• Experience in consumer PR and marketing is a plus.

Benefits

• A transformative culture putting service first and taking pride in caring for our guests, our communities, and each other.
• Opportunities to use cutting edge technologies and enterprise-wide collaboration to enable our strategy and drive world class service.
• We're here for families! Great benefits including choices in medical plans, dental, vision, life insurance, charitable giving programs, parental leave and an onsite Child Development Center.
• Competitive pay, 401k company match up to 6%, vacation & sick time, paid holidays, volunteer time, and an onsite cafeteria.
• Dress for your day dress code, jeans are welcomed!
• The opportunity to work for a big company that has not lost our small company feel. Our senior leadership team is engaged, involved and accessible!