Employee Communications Lead, North America

Stantec; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 105 000 - 157 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase program

Paid holidays

Resumo da oferta

Stantec's Leadership & Functional Communications team is seeking a Communications Lead to develop and deliver strategies that engage our people and align with the firm's Strategic Plan. This role partners with functional leaders worldwide to connect staff with our purpose and brand.

You will create content across channels, including emails, intranet articles, thought leadership, and video briefs, tailoring messages for diverse audiences and formats.

Qualificações

• Post-secondary degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing preferred.
• 7+ years’ progressive experience working in a communications-related role for large, complex organizations.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and deliver impactful communications plans, including creative campaign concepts, implementation approaches, and timelines.
• Manage partnerships and relationships across the business to align practices to successful outcomes.
• Create compelling content across channels, including email, intranet articles, thought leadership, and video briefs.
• Build understanding of operational priorities and audience needs to deliver targeted and effective communications.
• Build strong relationships with leaders and internal partners to enable clear, effective, and timely communications.
• Identify and shape key issues by gathering and analyzing information from multiple sources.
• Communicate with purpose to inform, engage, build alignment, and support meaningful behavior change.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of communications across channels.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, communications, and PR teams and North America operations.

Conhecimentos

Excellent writing

Detail-oriented

Partner communication

Project coordination

Collaboration and planning

Independent worker

MS Office

Formação académica

Post-secondary degree in communications or related field

Ferramentas

Microsoft Office

Descrição da oferta de emprego

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Your Opportunity

The Communications Lead, Leadership & Functional Communications, develops and delivers communications strategies that reach the hearts and minds of our people, inspire action, and support our long-term business strategy.

This is a dynamic, multifaceted role that partners closely with functional services leaders and subject matter experts across the globe. In this role, you’ll lead key communications work that connects our people to one another—and to our purpose—so they clearly understand how their work brings Stantec’s Strategic Plan and brand to life every day.

You’ll be part of the Leadership & Functional Communications team within Employee Communications. Your work will focus on company-wide communications supporting various functional services teams including Health, Safety, Security, Environment; and Growth & Innovation. You’ll bring your creativity, authenticity, and strategic thinking to your work, while also influencing best practices and improving how we communicate at scale. You lead by example and demonstrate exceptional relationship management skills and accountability.

The successful candidate thrives in a fast-paced, complex environment where priorities can shift quickly. It calls for strong initiative, sound judgment, efficiency, flexibility, attention to detail, and the ability to navigate sensitive information with care.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver impactful communications plans, including creative campaign concepts, implementation approaches, and timelines.
• Manage partnerships and relationships across the business to align practices to successful outcomes.
• Create compelling content across channels, including email, intranet articles, thought leadership, and video briefs, adapting messages for different audiences and formats.
• Build a deep understanding of operational priorities and audience needs, including language considerations, to deliver targeted and effective communications.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with leaders and internal partners to enable clear, effective, and timely communications.
• Identify and shape key issues and messages by gathering, analyzing, and integrating information from multiple and sometimes competing sources.
• Communicate with purpose to inform, engage, build alignment, and support meaningful behavior change.
• Confidently manage multiple priorities, assessing urgency and impact while maintaining quality and accuracy.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of communications across channels, using insights to inform future decisions.
• Collaborate closely with the rest of our marketing, communications, and public relations organization, including our graphic design and video, digital, North America operations teams and others.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills
• Ability to communicate with partners at all levels
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing environments
• Excellent collaboration and strategic planning skills
• Ability to work within a team as well as independently and with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated proficiency with web-based tools and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience working within another large organization is considered an asset

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing preferred
• 7+ years’ progressive experience working in a communications-related role for large, complex organizations.

Pay Range

• Locations in CO, HI, IL, MD & Various CA, CT, NJ, VA Areas-$104,900.00 - $157,400.00 Annually

Pay Transparency

In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary

• medical, dental, and vision plans
• a wellness program
• health saving accounts
• flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) plan
• employee stock purchase program
• life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• short-term/long-term disability plans
• emergency travel benefits
• tuition reimbursement
• professional membership fee coverage
• paid family leave
• ten paid holidays in each calendar year
• vacation between 10 and 20 days per year
• paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

• 401(k) plans
• employee stock purchase program
• paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location:

United States | IL | Chicago

Other Locations:

United States | CO | Denver

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.