Published: Jan 09, 2025 - The Employee Communications Manager is responsible for developing and executing the employee communications strategy, collaborating with regional and global teams to enhance engagement programs and align with company goals. This role drives strategic partnerships with functional leaders, designs personalized campaigns, and implements communication plans for various employee programs such as surveys, diversity initiatives, and leadership development. Additionally, this position supervises content localization, manages channel strategies across digital and physical tools, and oversees communication logistics through multiple platforms like email, Slack, and the intranet.

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1. Employee Communications Manager, ClearPath Solutions, Durham, NC
Job Summary:
- Own the intake and communications planning for projects including diversity programs, benefits, leadership development, compensation, performance, acquisitions, office openings and facilities projects, employment branding, and people manager communications.
- Develop communication plans that deconstruct HR benefits, programs and policies into clear and relevant messaging for employees.
- Build positive relationships and serve as a trusted communications advisor for the EMEA EX team to drive engaging communication campaigns, in alignment with the extended communications team.
- Create communication solutions and build tools and templates to enable employees and partners to communicate HR-related program and policy materials.
- Partner with Global Marketing on region-wide employee campaigns and work in close alignment on calendaring communications across a variety of channels.
- Measure the success of communication plans
- Conduct employee outreach/interviews for various Employee Experience programs, analyze feedback
- Report on campaign metrics and use data/insights to improve processes, formats and content.
- Develop and roll out P&T communications strategy and integration plans for acquisitions, partnering with a cross-functional team.
- Build change management communications for the function, including reorganizations, product realignments, and product announcements.
- Evolve existing and create new communication channels to ensure an optimal mix of top-down, sideways and bottoms-up communication is taking place.
- Balance planned communications with unplanned and urgent business needs
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Communication Planning (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Employee Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Content Creation (Hard Skills)
- Data-Driven Insights (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Change Management Communication (Soft Skills)
- Multi-Channel Communication (Hard Skills)
2. Employee Communications Manager, Ascend Media Group, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Develop and execute the Adobe employee communications strategy
- Collaborate with the regional Comms managers across India and APAC to develop a regional comms ecosystem
- Partner with global comms teams to bring flagship engagement programs to Adobe Japan
- Drive strategic partnerships with functional leaders across Employee Experience
- Design and execute engaging, meaningful and personalized employee communication campaigns
- Implement Adobe Japan-specific and global communication plans for projects including companywide employee surveys, diversity programs, benefits, leadership development, compensation,
- Supervise the content localization strategy
- Collaborate with an external agency and internal stakeholders and program manage requests
- Plan for localization of relevant global announcements and share with the local team via emails, Teams and Slack, and manage Japan Document Share (Inside Adobe Japan)
- Lead the channel management strategy across digital and physical tools (email, slack, digital displays, intranet, branding)
- Update all distribution lists and own employee comms mailboxes
Skills on Resume:
- Communication Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Regional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Program Execution (Hard Skills)
- Campaign Design (Hard Skills)
- Localization Management (Hard Skills)
- Project Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Channel Management (Hard Skills)
- Digital Tools (Hard Skills)
3. Employee Communications Manager, Nexus Insights, Fort Collins, CO
Job Summary:
- Be a strategic partner to the Chief Product Officer, advising on the right communications content, forum, and timing to ensure employees are informed, inspired and empowered to help LinkedIn succeed
- Capture the authentic voice of CPO in compelling communications that bring to life vision, product strategy and priorities
- Build product narrative(s) and stories that highlight what we’re building and why and how LinkedIn is connecting members to opportunity
- Tell stories through creative, engaging communications such as live events, videos, and LinkedIn posts to inspire employees about product strategy and the impact it has on members
- Collaborate across the organization with multiple product stakeholders and communications teams to shape and deliver product-focused communications programs and campaigns
- Develop, implement and communicate corporate strategy and key messages to a wide variety of internal audiences in clear language, using a variety of communications tactics.
- Work with teams to identify best practices and determine communication channels to support business objectives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness and internal communications channels and obtain feedback from key stakeholders.
- Provide executive communications to support senior executive staff, including preparing talking points for critical topics, company announcements, etc.
- Research, write and edit all types of communication materials.
- Collaborate with other departments to develop/implement successful internal communications plans and strategies for the company.
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Communication (Soft Skills)
- Storytelling (Hard Skills)
- Executive Communication (Soft Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Internal Communications (Hard Skills)
- Channel Management (Hard Skills)
- Editing (Hard Skills)
- Evaluation (Hard Skills)
4. Employee Communications Manager, Horizon Workforce Services, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Contribute to long-term strategic planning for employee communications, while managing and executing individual programs.
- Actively contribute to positive employee culture and collaborate with HR to develop and execute culture-building activities.
- Develop and maintain an editorial calendar.
- Manage content strategy for company intranet and collaborate with Tech team for updates.
- Help develop content and support the creation of an employee newsletter.
- Draft executive communications to employees.
- Provide support for events, including company meetings.
- Support Diversity & Inclusion work, new employee onboarding, and employee giving program.
- Coordinate regularly with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Serve as a collaborative liaison with philanthropic nonprofits and other entities.
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Planning (Soft Skills)
- Culture Development (Soft Skills)
- Calendar Management (Hard Skills)
- Strategy Management (Hard Skills)
- Communication Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Event Support (Soft Skills)
- Diversity Support (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Coordination (Soft Skills)
5. Employee Communications Manager, Peak Strategies LLC, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Lead on global employee communications channel strategy
- Partner with colleagues and leaders (functional and geographic) from across the business on employee communications and engagement
- Shape leadership communications including owning company-wide internal events and ensuring the effective cascade of information throughout the company
- Lead on delivering key strategic initiatives, embedding programs across the business (e.g. Values integration, learning and development strategies)
- Develop creative and engaging campaigns that have cut through across the business, using a mix of mediums including video, podcasts, webinars, blogs and direct communications
- Craft content for communications including copywriting, drafting briefings, talking points and creating audio-visual and interactive materials
- Lean heavily on data insights (engagement metrics and others) to measure the impact of and drive the constant iteration and evolution of the strategy
- Develop and integrate best practices across non-owned comms across the business
- Develop and deliver cutting-edge, scalable communications that improve productivity and drive conversation, connectedness and innovation across Splunk's P&T employee community.
- Drive communications strategy for P&T organization (consisting of Engineering, Product Management, UX, Program Management, IT, and Security teams) totaling nearly 2,000 employees.
- Build strategic agenda for and produce functional all-hands meetings, town halls, roundtables, and Ask Me Anything sessions.
Skills on Resume:
- Global Communication Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Leadership Communication (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Initiative Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Creative Campaigns (Hard Skills)
- Content Creation (Hard Skills)
- Data-Driven Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Best Practices Integration (Hard Skills)
6. Employee Communications Manager, BrightLine Partners, Tacoma, WA
Job Summary:
- Support the development and implementation of internal communications plans and activities supporting WPB’s strategy, Wealth Model Transformation and business priorities
- Contribute to the development of internal communications narratives and lead on the planning and delivery of colleague content and campaigns, including key messages, collateral and measurement
- Provide expert counsel to business stakeholders, influencing thinking on strategic communications and coaching them on delivery and story-telling
- Rigorous use of best practice measurement and insight (including employee engagement data) to inform activities and ensure focus on business outcomes
- Provide high-quality change communications support for the strategic business transformation programs, ensuring strong connectivity and collaboration with the wider WPB Communications network
- Contribute to channel strategy and roadmap including the development of innovative new internal communications products, techniques and channels
- Develop and implement creative strategic employee communications plans to support global Total Rewards
- Serve as a strategic advisor to subject matter experts on the Benefits, Compensation and Wellbeing teams.
- Craft company-wide emails, Slack posts, video scripts and intranet copy to support key projects.
- Create compelling content that uses storytelling to illustrate how Worday’s Total Rewards programs enhance the employee experience.
- Partner with members of the broader corporate employee communications team to identify opportunities for message integration, alignment and amplification.
Skills on Resume:
- Internal Communications Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Content Creation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Advisory (Soft Skills)
- Change Communication (Soft Skills)
- Data-Driven Insight (Hard Skills)
- Channel Innovation (Hard Skills)
- Campaign Planning (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)