Corporate Communications Manager

Job title:

Corporate Communications Manager

Location:

Stamford, CT (Hybrid)

Duration: 8 months

Pay Rate: $42/hr on W2

The Contractor will help execute and sustain an external communication strategy for North America that drives overall awareness and reputation in the region, which is a priority focus of the North American executive team. The individual in this role will have oversight of two significant areas of work within this plan:

• Developing, implementing, and managing annual strategic communication plans for Sustainability efforts in the region and, as well as the business units (Consumer Brands and Adhesive Technologies) and functions
• Supporting the company’s Media Relations strategy and activities. In this capacity, the individual has responsibility for creating and managing plans, on behalf of the company including execution of global communications events, collaborating with key leaders across the businesses and with the global corporate communications team.

Responsibilities

Elevate and protect NA corporate reputation through effective communications and media relations:

• Develop and execute sustainability communication for North America, effectively partnering with the global sustainability management, communications, and business teams
• Develop and deploy best practices in media relations to various internal audiences at all levels and functions, to measurably upgrade sustainability reputation
• Partner with team on media relations, providing messaging, monitoring, and reporting support for crisis and issues management
• Leverage and integrate key corporate messaging into media messaging and ensure key executives are trained in using the key messaging and local examples in press settings
• Build relationships with key trade and local media across the region, partnering with Public Affairs and Supply Chain/ Operations communication for local press strategies at priority manufacturing site communities.
• Assist with management of external agency partner media and sustainability relations scope and spend, support and direction
• Develop and distribute press releases, develop media briefs, Q&A messaging, media fact sheets
• Prepare leaders for press interactions and public relations activities including public speaking events, media-facing government affairs activities, press interviews
• Serve as an integral part of the external communications team in the region, effectively partnering with colleagues to build, execute and continually refine external communications plan, as well as collaborating with internal communications team to ensure integration/alignment between internal & external communications

• Bachelors in communications or related discipline
• Proven track record of increasing corporate reputation with measurable results
• Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive and successful communication and media relations experience
• Established experience developing and managing media relations, including: strategy, planning, key message development, proactive outreach and reactive responding to reporters/editors, media training, and reporting
• Experience with agency management
• Superior writing skills, strong analytical, negotiation, organization, prioritization, and presentation skills; general business management knowledge
• Prior experience influencing and collaborating with global and cross-functional colleagues, at junior, mid and senior management level
• Collaborative, team-player, comfortable in fast-paced environment, spanning different time zone
• Highly organized, with demonstrated ability to multi-task effectively, be flexible to changing needs, and resilient under pressure
• Proven ability to drive change, challenge the status-quo, and creatively deliver results within a global organization
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint, and preferably media and social media monitoring tools, and proven ability to leverage this knowledge to develop and effectively communicate presentations to various audience groups