Mgr Communications

Job Summary

Responsibilities

• Providing counsel and communications support for the organization's consumer & business services groups: including go-to market strategies, key growth initiatives, product & marketing, sales, and retail.
• Crafting compelling narratives to showcase key company initiatives to top tier media and key stakeholders, working cross-functionally with internal teams to develop and execute a successful communications campaign.
• Creating detailed communication materials. The candidate will develop and edit press releases and memos, key messages, backgrounders, briefing documents, media alerts, and campaign presentations, infographics, and social media content.
• Responding to media inquiries from local media outlets across multiple time zones.
• Partnering with senior leadership to develop internal communications programs and content to engage the employee base.
• Advising senior leadership on best communication practices internally and externally.
• Co-manage communications and company technology tools such as the corporate website, employee intranet, internal social platform, corporate social media handles, employee newsletter, analytics tools, email distribution tool, etc.
• Assisting in occasional communications support for corporate groups including HR, finance, procurement, and more as well as the organization's news & advertising businesses, which include a4 Advertising, Cheddar News, and News 12 Networks.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of communications/public relations experience at an agency or internally
• Experience and background creating communications materials
• Has strong project management skills and is able to seek out and collate information from multiple departments across the organization
• Has experience working directly with media
• Is detail oriented and a self-starter willing to move quickly and adapt to change
• Possesses exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Commitment to excellence and being a team player with a can-do attitude