Description:
As a senior communicator on our team, your strategic storytelling expertise will help us share and shape the opportunities arising naturally from rapid transformation and growth across the lines of business and functional areas of our company. By guiding the energy and momentum evident in periods of change, your communications efforts will help our colleagues achieve business results, enable meaningful outcomes, inspire action and strengthen our corporate culture. You will collaborate with teammates across Global Corporate Affairs, offering strategic communications counsel and solutions to our business partners to help transform the way employees think, act and lead. Integral to the role will be leading and advocating for ongoing enhancements to the processes and systems enabling our work. You’ll also help advance the strategic vision for our growing team, building on your experience as a results-oriented leader to help us think outside of the box and achieve our company’s shared priorities. Key responsibilities include:
Strategic relationship management
- Provide proactive communications counsel as a relationship manager to senior partners in our lines of business, distilling ideas, strategies, and results succinctly and persuasively in a meaningful way to inform, empower, and inspire Moody’s colleagues.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, counsellor, and coach to senior executives, working with them to increase their impact as brand advocates and guide them through strategic internal and external positioning. Help individual executives develop their voice in an authentic, engaging, and substantive manner.
- Partner with colleagues across the enterprise to design and execute communications strategies and messaging that clearly articulates the power and opportunity that comes with change through the lens of our evolving employee value proposition.
- Lead and inspire teams of storytellers across a range of communications areas, from content development to execution.
Strategic enablement
- Build relationships at all levels across the company, acting as a strategic liaison to connect corporate initiatives through comprehensive narratives, creative stories, and integrated communications strategies.
- Manage the strategic deployment of user-centric communications focused on creating sustained, meaningful connections and conversations among employees.
- Develop and hone our content in alignment with our tone and style to ensure it remains clear, concise, and compelling.
- Identify and manage key metrics to assess the effectiveness of communications and to identify opportunities for improvement.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate is a dynamic communications professional with a demonstrated track record of success in a global organization and proven leadership in communications strategy development and implementation. They will have a bachelor’s degree with approximately 12-15 years of communications and/or marketing experience.
Other qualifications include:
- Experience developing, leading, and executing comprehensive internal communication strategies with large corporations using various communication mediums.
- Stellar leadership skills and strong executive presence, complementing outstanding technical communication skills along with an ability to manage stakeholder expectations, as well as build lasting rapport through interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Strong knowledge of common and innovative communication and event channels and trends, as well as an understanding of how they contribute to employee engagement – this includes content management systems, collaborations tools and user experience principals.
- Strategic and creative thinker with the ability to develop original content and programs with minimal guidance, coupled with appreciation for scalable processes to ensure efficient execution.
- Experience as a trusted advisor to high-level executives is important.
- Exceptional writing and editing ability, as well as high attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritize and navigate a variety of activities in a dynamic, fast-paced, matrixed environment coupled with strong organizational skills to lead multiple projects simultaneously, while also managing and mitigating risk instinctively.