Senior Manager, CEO Communications (12 Month Contract)

SML Inox; Toronto; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager for CEO Communications to elevate the leadership voice of the CEO. This dynamic role involves crafting impactful messages, developing executive briefing materials, and collaborating with key stakeholders to enhance engagement with media and audiences. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in strategic communications, showcasing exceptional writing and organizational skills. Join a progressive team committed to innovation and community impact, where your contributions will drive meaningful change and foster growth.

Benefits

Coaching and Development Opportunities

Dynamic and Collaborative Team Environment

Challenging Work Opportunities

Qualifications

• 7+ years in strategic communications or business/finance journalism.
• Exceptional writing skills and attention to detail are required.

Responsibilities

• Plan and draft content for CEO communications across various platforms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance CEO engagement.

Skills

Strategic Communications

Public Affairs

Business/Finance Journalism

Writing and Communication

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Time Management

Decision Making

Job description

Job Summary

What is the opportunity?

As Senior Manager, CEO Communications, you will help bring strategic advice and communications support to RBC's CEO. To excel in this role, you must be an exceptional writer and researcher with a passion for creating compelling content that elevates and advances our CEO's leadership voice within RBC and in the public sphere. You will ideate and create impactful leader messages and narratives, develop executive-ready briefing materials, help support key internal and external event appearances, and contribute to several other key priorities across the CEO communications strategy.

This is a 12-month contract position, reporting to the Vice President, Executive Communications.

What will you do?

• Plan, research, write, and edit content for all CEO communications platforms to reach audiences inside and outside of RBC.
• Draft concise, executive-ready briefing materials used to prepare for key engagements.
• Ensure CEO narratives and messages are clear, concise, and representative of broader business priorities and objectives.
• Continually evaluate the impact of content and messages to ensure the highest impact across audiences and channels.
• Coordinate and collaborate with key stakeholders across the bank to identify and support ways for the CEO to engage with target audiences, including top-tier media outlets, employee-facing events, client engagements, and other key opportunities.
• Pitch new ideas that will enhance the CEO platform for the future.
• Work in close partnership with the CEO's executive support team to ensure alignment on the calendar of upcoming activities.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• 7+ years of experience in strategic communications, public affairs, or business/finance journalism.
• Ability to write and communicate in a clear and consistent style.
• Some demonstrated experience in drafting speeches, opinion pieces, employee memos, social media posts, key messages, and talking points.
• A strong grasp of global issues, current events, and business trends.
• Rigorous attention to detail and deadlines, including strong organizational skills.
• Deadline-driven and results-oriented, strong interpersonal skills, project management knowledge, and time management capabilities.
• A curious and creative thinker who's not afraid to try new things and suggest ideas.
• Flexibility to, at times, work outside normal hours.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience supporting senior-level or C-suite leaders.
• Experience in reputational risk, proactive media relations, and/or issues management.
• Hands-on knowledge of internal and external communications channels, including effective use of events, digital, video, and social media communications.

Whats in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.

Job Skills:

Decision Making, Industry Knowledge, Internal Communications, Interpersonal Relationships, Knowledge Organization, Long Term Planning, Multi-Level Communication, Oral Communications, Organizational Communications, Time Management.

Additional Job Details:

Address: BAY WELLINGTON TOWER, 181 BAY ST:TORONTO

City: TORONTO

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: HUMAN RESOURCES & BMCC

Job Type: Contract (Fixed Term)

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-02-14

Application Deadline: 2025-02-28

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above.

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