Responsibilities

• Lead communications planning and execution for M&A integration, HR initiatives, organizational changes, operating model updates, and global enterprise programs, ensuring leaders and employees receive clear, timely, and actionable information.
• Build the workplans, stakeholder maps, message architectures, editorial calendars, approval processes, and measurement approaches needed to execute consistently across regions and functions.
• Manage the strategic partnership between Corporate Communications and HR, serving as the primary point of alignment on talent, culture, org-design, and employee-experience initiatives to ensure integrated planning and consistent messaging.
• Lead communications support for events, leadership visits, town halls, and engagement programs, ensuring clear sequencing and consistent enterprise messaging.
• Write speeches, video scripts, discussion guides, and talking points for senior leaders, translating business priorities into clear, audience-ready messages.
• Partner with senior communications leaders to ensure internal, leadership, and stakeholder communications are aligned with Circana’s corporate narrative, reputation priorities, and business strategy.
• Support M&A and Legal workstreams by partnering with Legal to develop disciplined stakeholder communications for litigation-related, regulatory, and disclosure-sensitive matters, ensuring materials are aligned, appropriately reviewed, and managed with discretion.
• Serve as a trusted communications partner to HR, M&A, regional, and business stakeholders, providing counsel on message strategy, employee impact, timing, risks, and execution.
• Maintain communications governance, standards, and best practices that reinforce execution discipline and clear decision-making across complex initiatives.
• Use employee insights, channel analytics, feedback loops, and post-initiative retrospectives to evaluate communications effectiveness and continuously improve clarity, engagement, and adoption.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in strategic corporate communications, ideally within fast-paced, highly regulated industries such as information services, financial services, or technology.
• Proven success leading multi-stakeholder communications for mergers, acquisitions, or organizational transformations.
• Experience coordinating with external communications, including PR, legal, HR, M&A, strategy, and leadership.
• Experience supporting Legal-driven and issues-management workstreams, including litigation, regulatory, disclosure-sensitive, response protocol, and employee-facing stakeholder communications.
• Strong writing and storytelling skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear, concise messaging.
• Demonstrated ability to work under tight timeframes, manage through ambiguity, and influence across functions and levels.
• Executive presence and discretion.
• Demonstrated background supporting senior leadership communications, including executive messaging, leader visibility, and speechwriting programs.
• Sound judgment on communications matters, with the conviction to advise employees at all levels, from entry-level to C-suite, while building productive colleague relationships.
• Experience working across global teams and regions.

Preferred

• Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.
• Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.
• Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.
• Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers.
• Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.
• Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.
• Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.