Vice President Corporate Communications

Description

The full job description covers all associated skills, previous experience, and any qualifications that applicants are expected to have.

Position at Hill Knowlton Strategies

Vice President, Corporate Communications ESG

Hill Knowlton Strategies is seeking a dynamic Vice President with strong Corporate Communications and ESG experience to serve as the day-to-day lead for a large consumer brand account. This position will partner with inter-agency specialists, manage junior team members, and be part of a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary group.

Candidates must have experience leading the execution of corporate and ESG programs on behalf of large brands, including but not limited to, corporate reputation, crisis communications, executive positioning, sustainability, DEI, and business transformation.

Overview

The candidate is responsible for supporting a proactive strategy through active media management and engagement to build, protect and defend the client’s reputation on a national level with various stakeholders, including but not limited to customers, employees, and business partners. This includes identifying and escalating issues where the company is at risk, supporting proactive PR and communications programs, coordinating and managing relationships with key external third parties, and executing communications strategy and support for high-profile corporate priorities.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead day-to-day account operations and serve as a primary client contact.
• Cultivate and build account relationships with key day-to-day clients; nurture and grow the partnership over time.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of client business, industry competition, and relevant media.
• Develop and deploy strategic, proactive communications that deliver the client’s message regarding an initiative or issue.
• Identify and target specific audiences for communications regarding specific initiatives or issues.
• Provide client counsel and management on communications implications of an issue and the impact it could have on corporate reputation.
• Help advance and guide the company’s growing ESG strategy.
• Research innovation and external best practices to manage and translate a range of complex ideas, issues, and initiatives into strategic communication solutions.
• Confer with subject matter experts in various internal departments and outside stakeholders to determine the appropriate internal and external communications for the situation.
• Maintain an awareness and detailed knowledge of developments in the business, including major projects impacting the enterprise, corporate initiatives, trade relations initiatives, and issues involving corporate reputation.
• Track and monitor the effect of communications to ensure continual process improvement.

Basic Qualifications

The ideal candidate is a creative yet strategic thinker, demonstrating enthusiasm and energy, an appetite to learn and be challenged, and a solid skill set of writing, organization, account, and team management.

Preferred Qualifications

What’s in it for you?

Competitive benefits package—including healthy vacation allotment, 401(k) matching, medical / dental / vision support, fitness reimbursement, your birthday off, professional development opportunities, and more.

A career working with a growing team that is helping clients address some of the world’s toughest health challenges.

An inspiring, passionate, driven, fun, and creative team culture.

Strong leadership with a focus on entrepreneurial thinking, training, and mentoring to help you grow, expand your skills, and become your professional best.

About Hill Knowlton Strategies

Hill Knowlton Strategies is an international public relations company with over 85 offices around the world. We believe that every corporation, every brand, every client has a public, and today’s public is more powerful than ever before. They have the power to topple CEOs, reshape corporate and brand strategy, kill products, and create unicorns. Today’s public demands truth, transparency, and the highest behavioral standards.

Our client obsession means constantly evolving new products and services to help brands and the public communicate. Always in beta.

At H K, our belief is that the agency is a canvas for everyone to write their own story. This job description is written at a moment in time; whatever role you take at H K, we expect you to evolve that role; it should be different tomorrow than it is today and set new standards in the industry.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Hill Knowlton Strategies does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, creed, color, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military status, national origin, or ancestry.

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