Manager Communications Planning

Framingham, MA (Unknown)

$130K/yr – $179K/yrManager6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own and shape integrated communications strategy and activation across product, brand, and markets, defining audience journeys, messaging architectures, launch plans, and cross-functional alignment.

  • Define audiences and messaging hierarchy
  • Lead cross-functional planning and post-launch optimization

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 1 | Comms Strategy & Architecture
  • Develop integrated communications strategies grounded in business objectives, product positioning, audience insights, brand priorities, and success metrics.
  • Define the communications challenge, audience journey, customer-relevant narrative, messaging hierarchy, channel roles, and moments that matter.
  • Translate product features, claims, and reasons to believe into clear messaging architectures and activation guidance.
  • Identify strategic gaps and trade-offs early, ensuring key upstream decisions are aligned before channel planning begins.
  • 2 | Integrated Plan Design & Orchestration
  • Own the integrated activation architecture and maintain a single source of truth across functions, channels, markets, and consumer touchpoints.
  • Define launch phasing, channel sequencing, planning milestones, dependencies, and readiness requirements.
  • Align messaging, timing, and execution across Media, PR, Social, CRM, eCommerce, Retail, Partnerships, and other activation teams.
  • Partner with Media, Commercial, and activation teams to recommend investment priorities aligned to launch objectives and channel roles.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in integrated marketing, communications planning, brand strategy, or a related field.
  • Experience translating business, product, brand, audience, and commercial priorities into integrated communications strategies.
  • Strong ability to define communications challenges, audience journeys, messaging architectures, channel roles, and launch plans.
  • Experience developing customer-relevant narratives from product features, claims, and reasons to believe.
  • Strong understanding of launch phasing, cross-channel orchestration, readiness planning, investment prioritization, and measurement.
  • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Strong strategic thinking, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to balance rigor with executional practicality.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with evolving priorities and multiple activation partners.

Benefits

  • In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences.
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Bose Corporation is a global leader in audio innovation, driven by a singular belief: sound has the power to transform the way people connect with the world. For more than 60 years, Bose has combined pioneering research, engineering excellence, and a deep understanding of human perception to create products and technologies that deliver extraordinary experiences. Through its portfolio of iconic brands, including Bose, McIntosh, and Sonus faber, the company offers premium and luxury audio solutions for the home, on the go, and in the car. Bose also collaborates with leading companies across industries, extending its audio expertise and technologies into new products, platforms, and applications beyond its own brands. Guided by a relentless spirit of innovation and a passion for what sound makes possible, Bose continues to advance the science and art of sound while expanding its impact on everyday life. From music and entertainment to communication, wellness, and emerging applications, Bose is creating new ways for people around the world to feel more connected, inspired, and engaged through the power of sound.

Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
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