VP Corporate Communications

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the enterprise communications strategy aligned with business objectives, growth priorities, culture, and reputation.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, and senior leaders on communications opportunities, risks, stakeholder impact, and message strategies.
• Translate complex business, operational, regulatory, legislative, organizational, and reputational topics into clear, compelling communications for diverse audiences.
• Establish enterprise communications priorities, standards, processes, governance, and channel strategies to drive consistency, quality, and effectiveness across the company.
• Lead executive communications, including CEO messaging, Board presentations, speeches, town halls, talking points, strategic announcements, and enterprise messages.
• Strengthen leadership visibility and credibility through clear, authentic, and timely messaging aligned with company priorities.
• Anticipate communications needs around major business initiatives, acquisitions, capital projects, leadership transitions, organizational changes, employee matters, and external developments.
• Partner closely with Human Resources, Legal, Operations, Commercial, Finance, Regulatory, Sustainability, Government & External Affairs, and other functions to align messaging and stakeholder engagement.
• Direct internal communications that connect employees to the company’s strategy, priorities, culture, safety mindset, operating expectations, growth agenda, and organizational change.
• Develop communications plans for enterprise initiatives, acquisitions, capital projects, leadership transitions, engagement programs, and culture-building efforts.

Requirements

• 20+ years of progressive communications leadership experience, including senior leadership responsibility in corporate communications, internal communications, public relations, executive communications, media relations, crisis communications, organizational change, or reputation management.
• Executive leadership experience in energy, midstream, industrial, infrastructure, asset-intensive, or another highly regulated industry strongly preferred.
• Proven advisor to CEOs, Executive Leadership Teams, senior leaders, and Boards on complex, high-visibility communications matters.
• Deep expertise in executive communications, enterprise storytelling, crisis communications, media relations, organizational change, digital communications, corporate reputation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated success supporting rapid growth, acquisitions, major capital projects, leadership transitions, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong writing, editing, messaging, presentation, and storytelling skills with the ability to simplify complex topics.
• Proven ability to lead communications teams, manage priorities, develop talent, oversee budgets and agencies, and build effective operating models.
• Strategic Business Partner: Understands the business, anticipates communications implications, and provides sound counsel that supports enterprise priorities.
• Executive Presence: Communicates with credibility, judgment, confidence, and discretion at the executive level.
• Message Discipline: Creates clear, concise, accurate, and aligned communications across audiences and channels.

Preferred

• Master’s degree preferred.