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Communications Strategy Manager

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Abu Dhabi

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AED 120,000 - 200,000

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Job summary

A major energy and chemicals company in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Communications Strategy Manager to develop and evolve its communications strategy and executive positioning. The role involves shaping the strategic narrative, advising leadership, and overseeing communications performance. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 8-12 years of experience in strategic communications, particularly in energy or consulting. This position offers an impactful opportunity to influence the company's reputation and stakeholder relations.

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of industry experience in strategic communications, preferably in energy or consulting.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain communications strategy aligned with business objectives.
  • Conduct environmental scanning and peer benchmarking for strategy evolution.
  • Lead the delivery of quarterly reputation reviews and planning processes.

Skills

Strategic communications
Reputation management
Stakeholder engagement
Policy advisory

Education

Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent
Job description

The Communications Strategy Manager is responsible for developing and evolving ADNOC's overall enterprise communications strategy and executive positioning, grounded in stakeholder insight, peer analysis, and reputation-building best practices.

The role is central to ensuring an outside-in, impact-oriented communications and reputation building strategy that supports ADNOC's positioning and business goals as a leading international energy and chemicals company.

This includes shaping ADNOC's strategic narrative, identifying white-space opportunities, advising senior leadership on reputational trade-offs, and tracking communications performance across key external stakeholder groups.

Accountabilities
  • Develop and maintain ADNOC's high-level communications strategy, ensuring close alignment with enterprise strategy, business objectives, and global stakeholder expectations and trends, as well as ensuring comms delivery across the Group.
  • Translate complex strategic and economic shifts (e.g. energy transition, AI integration, global population growth) into clear, compelling narrative frameworks for use across leadership, media, investor, and institutional channels.
  • Support framing and development of strategic options for senior leadership on positioning, messaging trade-offs, and campaign architecture.
Reputation Intelligence and Insight
  • Ensure close integration with Strategic Insights team to acquire research and inputs from media monitoring, reputation measurement, stakeholder feedback, and campaign analytics for continuous strategy evolution.
  • Conduct environmental scanning, peer benchmarking, and white-space identification across the energy, technology, finance, and policy domains.
  • Test ADNOC's narrative, engagement plans, and positioning goals with key audiences.
Planning, Integration and Performance Tracking
  • Lead the delivery of a quarterly reputation review and planning process.
  • Support the annual communications planning process, including goalsetting, cross-functional integration, and alignment across executive communications, brand, external affairs, and digital teams.
  • Support the tracking, reporting, and optimization of communications performance through reputation dashboards, campaign KPIs, and quarterly reviews.
Stakeholder-Centric Strategy
  • Ensure all communication efforts reflect stakeholder priorities across ADNOC's key external audience groups and priority markets, including: investors, governments, policymakers, global institutions, media, partners, and the broader public.
  • Collaborate with functional, business, and corporate teams to ensure messaging is adapted and aligned across platforms and channels.
  • Lead or support external positioning efforts for ADNOC's flagship moments and platforms.
Governance, Management, and Continuous Improvement
  • Contribute to internal capability building by sharing insight, developing templates, and coaching colleagues on strategy and framing.
  • Stay abreast of best practices and trends in corporate reputation, stakeholder engagement, and executive communications.
Communications & Working Relationships
  • Regular work related contact with VP and team members, as well as with other members of the Functions.
  • Contacts with Functions Management, Functional heads and Department Managers for development and implementation of directorate's strategies, long term and short term plans.
  • Contacts with Management of other Directorates for routine divisional activities.
  • Contacts with ADNOC Group Companies' management for strategy alignment and governance.
External Relationships
  • Contacts with third party service provider, suppliers, consultants and industry experts.
  • Engage with external stakeholders, including media, partners, and vendors, to build and maintain effective communication channels and relationships.
Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Skills
  • Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Minimum Experience & Knowledge & Skills: 8-12 years or more of industry experience in strategic communications, reputation management, policy advisory, or stakeholder engagement-preferably in energy, government, consulting, or financial services.

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