Strategic Communications Lead
| Company | Stryker |
|---|---|
| Location | Mahwah, NJ, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 4+ years of work experience
Responsibilities
- Builds a network of customers and/or sales and marketing leaders to gain customer insight used to shape messaging.
- Works with leadership to determine messaging strategy.
- Collaboratively work with corporate/commercial/regional communications leads to build communications capabilities and advance opportunities that impact business and company goals. Provide counsel to these leaders.
- Uses strategic planning to enable organizational change. Adopts divisional and corporate change management communications best practices.
- Aids development of communication strategies to enable divisional change.
- Develops and refines communications best practices with businesses, including communications strategies, plans and related toolkits to drive greater consistency and effectiveness.
- Partners to execute strategic communications for M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activities. Includes but is not limited to announcement and integration.
- Contributes to a climate that cultivates imagination, new ideas, and experimentation.
- Champions new initiatives within and beyond scope of position.
- Monitors the industry for creative ideas and solutions that can be used internally.
- Advocate for brand guideline implementation and participate in discussions to further our brand.
- Promotes the organization’s effectiveness of internal communication through major campaigns.
- Maintains and optimizes internal channels and ensure connectivity to rest of the company.
- Ensure communications are in alignment with the business and company’s strategies, goals, objectives and brand, and ensure review and approvals are in accordance with current processes and procedures.
- Support the communications strategy for industry association meetings and other trade events.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in writing and editing content
- Experience in internal communications or corporate communications
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in large organizations
- Experience in public speaking and presenting to large, diverse, and executive audiences
- Experience in digital & multi-channel communications
- Background in acquisitions and integrations a plus
- French language proficiency preferred