Senior Manager, Executive Communications

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted communications counselor and strategic business partner to executive leaders across functions and other enterprise teams.
• Provide proactive guidance on executive messaging, positioning, and storytelling — helping leaders communicate with clarity, confidence, and consistency.
• Partner closely with executive leaders to shape narratives around strategy, transformation, performance, culture, and change.
• Develop and refine executive-level communications including presentations, speeches, talking points, leadership updates, and internal messaging.
• Translate complex business, financial, or technical topics into clear, engaging, and audience-relevant communications.
• Ensure alignment between executive messaging and Rich’s enterprise strategy, values, and priorities.
• Bring a modern, digitally savvy lens to executive communications — incorporating best practices in storytelling, channel strategy, AI-enabled tools, and evolving communication formats.
• Partner with the broader Corporate Communications team to continuously evolve how executive communications are delivered across internal channels and platforms.
• Help pilot and scale new approaches that increase engagement, accessibility, and impact of executive communications.
• Expand executive visibility and grow thought leadership by leveraging emerging and underutilized channels, including LinkedIn and Viva Engage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, English, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, executive communications, or a related discipline (corporate or agency background preferred).
• Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted communications advisor or business partner to senior leaders or executives, with high degree of discretion.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone and style for executive audiences.
• Strong executive presence, sound judgment, and interpersonal skills; comfortable engaging with senior leaders and navigating ambiguity.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple high-visibility projects simultaneously, often under tight timelines and shifting priorities.
• Digitally fluent, with a strong understanding of modern communication channels, tools, and emerging trends (including AI-enabled communications).
• Highly collaborative team player who values shared success, operates with a “we” mindset and actively supports teammates during peak moments.
• Strategic, curious, and solutions-oriented — able to think dynamically and creatively while operating with discipline and precision.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed, or global organizations preferred.