Principal Employee Communications Representative

Responsibilities

• Inform and inspire employees and drive business priorities within the company’s Aeronautics Systems sector while ensuring alignment with enterprise business and communications priorities.
• Develop, implement and measure employee, executive, culture and change communications plans and tactics.
• Serve as a partner and trusted advisor to business leaders at the functional, division and site levels. Develop, refine, distribute and measure leaders’ announcements, talking points, speeches, video scripts and speaker prep memos.
• Assist in the planning and execution of internal engagements, including webcasts, town halls, leadership calls, site visits and other leadership events, in partnership with sector and functional teams.
• Be a storyteller: Conceptualize, procure and produce a diverse array of inspirational content about our people, technologies, successes and business capabilities. Content will range from articles and videos, to interviews, Q&As, brief/catchy lists, infographics, and photo/caption features.
• Write, edit, distribute and measure strategic and timely business announcements, newsletters, digital content, articles and video scripts.
• Own and track key communications metrics across channels (such as email, intranet and internal events).
• Work closely with the enterprise team on functional communications by sharing sector insights to shape enterprise plans and executing enterprise functional campaigns, adapting them as needed.
• Partner with other communications teams across the enterprise to amplify messaging and ensure alignment
• Support maintenance of the sector’s internal websites and digital signage monitors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Communications, Journalism, English, Marketing or a related field and a minimum of 5 years of experience, or a Master's degree in prior fields and 3 years of experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong judgement, problem solving and organizational skills, and superb attention to detail.
• Possess a high level of integrity when handling sensitive and confidential information
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Preferred

• Experience producing omni-channel editorial content for a newspaper, news channel, video, magazine or other venue.
• Experience with change management frameworks (e.g. Prosci) to guide employees through organizational transitions, mergers, or restructuring.
• Crisis Communications experience.
• Aerospace and Defense experience.

Benefits

• Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.