Manager, Enterprise Communications

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute integrated communication strategies that advance assigned business unit priorities, support organizational objectives, and deliver clear, coordinated messaging across relevant internal, external, executive, digital, social, and stakeholder audiences.
• Serve as a strategic communications advisor to assigned business leaders, providing counsel that strengthens communication effectiveness, supports informed decision-making, and anticipates audience, stakeholder, and reputational considerations.
• Translate complex technical, operational, market, and industry information into clear, accurate, and compelling communications that enable diverse audiences to understand key issues, decisions, and organizational priorities.
• Regularly assess whether communications activities are achieving their intended business and audience outcomes and recommend improvements to communications processes, channels and practices.
• Ensure business unit communications are aligned with SPP’s enterprise strategy, messaging, and broader organizational narrative while appropriately addressing the distinct needs of individual audiences and business areas.
• Build effective cross-functional partnerships that produce coordinated, technically accurate, and audience-relevant communications and clarify communication roles, messaging, timing, and channels across interconnected initiatives.
• Deliver high-quality communications and content across appropriate channels, including executive communications, that achieve defined communication objectives and reinforce consistent organizational messaging.
• Evaluate communication effectiveness using appropriate measures, audience insights, and feedback to identify opportunities to strengthen communication strategies, channels, processes, and audience engagement.
• Anticipate and manage communications considerations associated with emerging, sensitive, or high-impact business issues, ensuring appropriate coordination, escalation, and response to protect organizational credibility and reputation.
• Partner with Media Relations and other communications functions to identify and advance proactive storytelling and engagement opportunities that strengthen understanding of SPP’s work, priorities, and value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree Degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field.
• 10 years Experience in corporate communications, public relations, journalism or a related communications discipline.

Preferred

• Experience in the electric utility, energy, transmission, power markets or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience working for an RTO, ISO, utility or related energy organization.
• Knowledge of the U.S. electric grid, wholesale electricity markets and the evolving energy landscape.
• Experience communicating complex technical, operational, regulatory or market-related issues.
• Experience providing communications counsel to executives and senior leadership teams.
• Experience with issues management, crisis communications and reputation management.
• Experience supporting organizational transformation and change communications.
• Experience with stakeholder, media and executive communications.
• Experience using communications analytics and audience insights to inform strategy.
• Experience working in a matrixed organization or complex stakeholder environment.

Benefits

• Competitive and transparent pay with bonus opportunities
• Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• Relocation bonus (if applicable)
• Hybrid working environment for positions that are eligible
• Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a pension (defined benefit plan) fully funded by SPP