Director, Corporate Communications & Reputation Leader

UniGroup; Des Peres (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company0匹

Generous paid time off

Life insurance, disability coverage

Professional development and growth

Collaborative culture in moving and物流

Job summary

UniGroup is seeking a Director of Communications to lead enterprise messaging and protect the company’s reputation across brands. This hands-on leader blends strategy with execution, coaching a small team while personally developing stories, speeches, and executive content.

The role partners with senior leaders to influence media, employees, customers and shareholders, manage crisis communications, and align communications with marketing, sales and operations for major initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of corporate communications experience with people leadership.
• Proven success pitching stories to national, trade and regional media.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with the ability to identify compelling stories.
• Experience serving as an on-the-record spokesperson, including broadcast interviews.
• Experience leading crisis and issues communications across traditional and digital channels.
• Experience counseling senior executives and providing a clear point of view on messaging and reputational risk.
• Experience writing for and advising a CEO, including speeches and board-level communications.
• Understanding of how earned media, social, web and search work together to strengthen reputation.
• Hands-on leader in a lean, fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead UniGroup’s enterprise communications strategy across earned media, reputation, executive, employee, agent and change communications.
• Personally develop and pitch compelling stories to national, trade, business and local media, building direct relationships with journalists and industry voices.
• Identify stories across agents, drivers, employees and customers and extend them across earned media, social, web, video and other channels.
• Turn company data and insights into relevant thought leadership and media opportunities.
• Serve as a company spokesperson for print, broadcast and on-camera interviews.
• Lead crisis and issues communications, monitoring reputational risks and advising leadership on responses.
• Partner with the CEO to develop speeches, talking points and executive content.
• Support board, shareholder and agent-owner communications and prepare the CEO for interviews and events.
• Counsel senior leaders on messaging, stakeholder impact and reputational risk.
• Lead communications for major enterprise priorities with clear, audience-focused messaging.

Skills

Executive communications

Crisis communications

Media relations

Speechwriting

Spokesperson experience

Leadership

Strategic storytelling

Counsel senior executives

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience

Job description

UniGroup is seeking a Director of Communications to lead enterprise messaging and protect the company’s reputation across brands. This hands-on leader blends strategy with execution, coaching a small team while personally developing stories, speeches, and executive content.

The role partners with senior leaders to influence media, employees, customers and shareholders, manage crisis communications, and align communications with marketing, sales and operations for major initiatives.