Corporate Communications Director

Corporate Communications Director

Requirements

• Requires a BA/BS in communications, journalism or public relations; 8 years of experience in a large organization or agency setting; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Responsibilities

• Develop compelling internal communications that effectively demonstrate how our efforts will further support achievement of the enterprise strategy of becoming a lifetime, trusted health partner.
• Deliver a variety of strategic communications deliverables best suited to drive holistic adoption of the company’s transformation.
• Develop recommendations on associate engagement and ambassador-building tactics, to bring associates along in the journey.
• Partner effectively across the organization and with key stakeholders to align communications to broader enterprise content.
• Identify awareness gaps and proactively develop communications solutions to increase understanding and adoption.
• Supports leaders to navigate and lead through enterprise change, including partnering with business leaders.
• Prioritizes speaking opportunities and prepares talking points, speeches, presentations, and other supporting material.  Understands audience’s needs and writes messages accordingly. Identifies, discerns, and reflects executives’ individual voices and styles in tailored prepared remarks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong employee communications capabilities, with demonstrated experience in supporting companies through large-scale, enterprise-wide change and strategic positioning initiatives preferred.
• Experience developing and delivering internal communications strategies which inform and engage preferred.
• Experience in communications planning and partnering cross-functionally preferred.
• Knowledge of the managed care/healthcare insurance industry preferred.
• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal communication skills, along with excellent writing and editing skills preferred.
• Ability to write about complex concepts in easy-to-understand language and distill messaging to reach a diverse internal audience preferred.
• Ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously with minimal direction preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment preferred.
• Experience in large, complicated matrixed organizations; ability to navigate through ambiguous situations with little direction preferred.
• Excellent project management skills, including prioritizing and managing multiple projects and internal stakeholders simultaneously preferred.
• A demonstrated ability to build relationships and earn the trust of all levels of employees and management preferred.