Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning Rhythm: Lead the annual, quarterly and agile planning cadence for Communications, ensuring enterprise priorities are translated into clear, sequenced and actionable plans across SLT teams.
• Governance and Prioritization: Establish planning governance, decision forums, service tiers and tradeoff mechanisms that help leaders focus capacity on the highest-value work.
• Pillar Leadership: Lead and develop the Strategic Planning pillar team, including strategic planning operations, strategic narrative design support and intake, while creating clarity, accountability and momentum.
• Executive Alignment: Partner with the Head of Strategy & Integration, CCO, senior Communications leaders and SLT stakeholders to surface priorities, dependencies, decisions and risks in a way that enables faster alignment.
• Capacity Visibility: Use intake, planning and status signals to make demand, resource pressure and tradeoffs visible, enabling more disciplined decisions about what Communications takes on, sequences, or declines.
• Enterprise Storytelling: Ensure planning outputs, executive updates and GLT-ready materials clearly demonstrate Communications’ contribution to strategy, transformation, reputation and stakeholder confidence.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of experience in corporate communications, strategic planning, business operations, management consulting, or a premier communications agency environment, with demonstrated experience supporting enterprise-level priorities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Business, Strategy or a related field.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into integrated communications plans, governance rhythms, planning cadences and decision frameworks that senior leaders can act on.
• Strong executive presence and consultative communication skills, with the ability to advise, influence and build trust with C-suite leaders, SLT members and senior cross-functional partners.
• Experience leading high-performing teams, developing talent and creating clarity across workstreams that require both strategic judgment and operational follow-through.
• Strong command of enterprise communications principles, intake and prioritization models, agile planning practices and workflow platforms such as Workfront.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, surface tradeoffs and drive alignment with diplomacy, urgency and strong attention to detail.

Preferred

• Advanced degree or equivalent enterprise leadership experience preferred.

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).