Senior Manager, Corporate and Executive Communications

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute communications for senior executives (including CEO), including speeches, talking points, presentations, employee communications, memoranda, video scripts, social media content, and other executive materials.
• Help develop and execute the CEO communications plan by coordinating messaging, content, and activities across key audiences and channels.
• Help manage the CEO’s LinkedIn content strategy, including planning, development, publishing, and performance reporting.
• Develop communications and campaigns that help employees and external stakeholders understand the business, its priorities, key initiatives, organizational updates, and significant developments while reinforcing company culture and employee engagement.
• Partner with communications colleagues, business leaders, and subject matter experts to develop enterprise narratives, key messages, toolkits, and supporting materials that promote consistency across senior executive communications.
• Manage a rolling executive communications calendar to support effective planning, sequencing, and coordination across audiences and channels.
• Manage executive communications assets, including leadership biographies, announcements, profiles, and related content, to strengthen executive visibility across internal and external platforms.
• Oversee the Enterprise Communications Portal, ensuring resources and content remain accurate, relevant, and current.
• Develop and maintain processes, templates, tools, and best practices that improve communications quality, consistency, and efficiency.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing executive and corporate communication plans, strategies, and tactics, including speeches, talking points, memos, emails, press releases, presentations, board reports, town hall meetings, video scripts, social media posts, etc.
• Strong writing, project management, and business and financial acumen
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders and ensures customer value by proactively requesting feedback and adjusting approach as needed
• Able to act as a trusted partner and influence without authority
• Must be able to effectively communicate and manage complex messages with a variety of audiences and facilitate change
• Bachelor's degree in Communication, Journalism or related field
• MBA preferred

Preferred

• Experience managing and developing communications for senior executives
• Strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
• Creative approach to engaging stakeholders, with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear and compelling content to draw in the target audience
• Serves as a trusted partner, able to influence others and drive results without relying on formal authority
• Previous experience working with CEOs or senior executives
• Identifies and applies AI capabilities to strengthen communications planning, content development, audience understanding and team effectiveness

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use