Director, Corporate Communications

Breakthru Services Group, LLC; Cicero (IL); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Health care benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

Breakthru Beverage Group seeks a Director of Corporate Communications to protect and elevate the company’s reputation with stakeholders. You will lead messaging across internal and external channels, shape narratives for executives, and drive thought leadership aligned with corporate strategy.

This role demands exceptional writing, project management, and cross-functional collaboration across North America.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing or related field.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in corporate or agency environments in corporate communications, public relations or content marketing.
• Experience working with company executives/leaders on corporate messaging and presentations.
• Experience in internal and external corporate communications (media relations/PR).
• Proficiency with digital communications and social media platforms.

Responsibilities

• Supports internal communications to engage corporate, functional teams, and associates.
• Ensures consistent messaging across the organization through internal & external channels.
• Crafts messages, programs, and materials for stakeholder understanding and action.
• Edits and produces intranet/external content, executive communications, and social posts.
• Captures and shares success stories illustrating Breakthru’s value for partners, customers, and teams.
• Delivers communications that support corporate strategy and executive needs, including call materials and newsletters.
• Develops relationships with HR and other stakeholders to identify communications opportunities.
• Measures results of communications and reports progress to stakeholders.
• Supports development of templates and toolkits for other professionals.

Skills

Corporate communications

Public relations

Content marketing

PowerPoint

SharePoint/Teams

Stakeholder management

Executive communications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Teams

Microsoft Office

Intranet management

Job description

Time Type: Full time Remote Type: Job Family Group: Human Resources

Job Description Summary

In this role, Breakthru’s Director, Corporate Communications will help protect & enhance the company’s reputation with all stakeholders. This leader has excellent project management capabilities along with exceptional written and verbal communication skills. They support Breakthru’s narrative deployment to/with key stakeholders to raise awareness and build thought leadership for the organization. This role helps execute a communications strategy that engages and inspires team members regarding the company’s corporate strategy, progress, and direction—elevating the brand reputation and equity externally. The Director role plays a key part in Breakthru’s mass communications process concentrated on rallying team members, which includes sharing perspectives and aligning key functional updates to the corporate strategy. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented and thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven culture and has a proven track record in advising senior executives. The Director, Corporate Communications shares timely updates regarding the full breadth of Breakthru’s capabilities with key stakeholders, especially internal associates (office, sales, and operations). They ensure company messages align with business strategy and are articulated in a compelling and consistent manner. This role serves a primary facilitation role in the maintenance, implementation, and support of Breakthru’s corporate website and Teams/SharePoint pages designed to keep stakeholders engaged on Breakthru’s value proposition and abundant opportunities ahead.

Job Description

This role follows a flexible hybrid schedule and can be performed from any Breakthru Beverage office location.

Job Responsibilities

• Supports the execution of internal communications to engage corporate, functional (including operations; drivers and warehouse associates), and market-based associates.
• Promotes alignment to corporate vision & mission and ensures consistent messaging across the organization through all internal & external channels.
• Understands and represents audience and stakeholder views, interdependencies and needs, using this knowledge to craft messages, programs, and work that leads to stakeholder understanding, comprehension, and action.
• Serves as primary editor of the company intranet SharePoint site and crafts company organizational announcements, social media posts, and executive communications including PowerPoint presentations, as well as the corporate news pages on the company website (BreakthruBev.com).
• This includes capturing & sharing success stories that articulate the unique value Breakthru provides supplier partners, customers, and communities, as well as team members living the brand.
• Writes, edits, and produces internal and external communications content that supports the corporate strategy and executive leader needs, including all associate call materials, intranet content, newsletters, roundtable materials, presentations, video scripts, social content, etc.
• Ensures the corporate narrative is incorporated into leader communications and serves as a key advocate for the Breakthru brand story.
• Develops relationships with key stakeholders in HR and beyond to identify and prioritize upcoming communications opportunities that will advance the company’s interests.
• This includes identifying issues, topics, trends, and events that can be leveraged across internal and external channels and managing the flow of key updates.
• Analyzes and measures results of deployed communications to ensure learnings can be applied to future activities, reporting results and progress to key stakeholders.
• Supports the continued development of processes, templates and toolkits that will assist other professionals in the business who support leader and market communications.
• Provide communications support for Breakthru events, such as quarterly all associate calls, top leader calls, executive roadshows, and the AOP/Leadership Conference.
• Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing or related field
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in either corporate or agency environment in corporate communications, public relations and/or content marketing
• Where they worked directly with company executives/leaders, supporting business communications activities including the development of corporate presentations, stories, editing of messaging/talking points, organizing and coordination of executive meetings, etc
• Experience in both internal and external (media relations/PR) corporate communications
• Technically savvy professional including all forms of digital communication/engagement and social media platforms
• Demonstrated business acumen, sound business judgment, and the ability to provide relevant, actionable, data-driven advice to management
• Understands the nuances across different stakeholder audiences including associate, supplier partner, customer, and communities, and can develop effective communications to engage each
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, passion for problem solving, and strong diagnostic skills
• Ability to think critically, both quantitatively and qualitatively and apply excellent writing and editing skills
• Ability to effectively meet deadlines and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Must be able to see projects to completion
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially strong in PowerPoint) and SharePoint/Teams
• Proven ability to work with various stakeholders and teams across North America while balancing multiple priorities
• Results-oriented, with a discipline of measurement around Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in business or a related field
• Experience working with agency partners
• Experience with beverage alcohol industry

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone

Salary

Salary Range: $126,000 - $170,000

Benefits

• This position is eligible to participate in a bonus program
• Metrics and level of participation are determined annually
• This position is eligible for health care benefits, life insurance, time off benefits and participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan

Equal Opportunity Statement

Breakthru Beverage Group is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call [phone] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

We’re driven to be the industry leader in every way, including how we treat our associates.

Which is why we’ve built a people-centric, relationship-driven culture designed to maximize career advancement, a sense of belonging, and wellness.

Focused on enhancing every aspect and phase of your career, the Breakthru experience includes our commitment to your growth, belonging, and wellness.

Breakthru Beverage is a family-owned and operated company with operations across the U.S. and Canada, and more than $8 billion in annual sales driven by a team of 10,000 associates.

We deliver world-renowned brands to the doorsteps of North America’s retail, bar and restaurant businesses.