Vice President, Brand and Public Relations

McCarthy Holdings, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 250.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

McCarthy Holdings, Inc. seeks a visionary Vice President of Public Relations to unify the enterprise narrative and drive a centralized PR strategy across regions. You will own the agency ecosystem, governance, and measurement, ensuring consistency while preserving local relevance.

The role focuses on scalable structure, vendor management, executive visibility, and cross-functional collaboration with brand, digital, events, and business leaders across the enterprise.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in PR/communications.
• 12+ years of progressive PR and communications, including enterprise strategy.
• Experience leading in a decentralized/matrixed environment.
• Ability to balance enterprise consistency with regional flexibility.
• Operate strategically and operationally.
• Skilled at agency strategy and vendor management.
• Ability to lead through influence across regions and functions.

Aufgaben

• Own the enterprise McCarthy story and voice—single differentiated narrative.
• Tie regions into one unified PR strategy with local relevance and enterprise consistency.
• Audit and manage the PR agency ecosystem, contracts, and spend.
• Develop a cost-savings and operating-model proposal with governance and workflows.
• Own the integrated enterprise PR plan aligned to campaigns and milestones.
• Build enterprise systems: media lists, go-to-market toolkits, speakers bureau.
• Partner with leaders on executive visibility and thought leadership across the enterprise.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise PR leadership

Agency management

Executive visibility

Cross-regional collaboration

Ausbildung

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

Jobbeschreibung

McCarthy Holdings, Inc. (McCarthy), is the holding entity for McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., the oldest privately-held national construction company in America, and Castle Contracting. McCarthy provides the crucial business infrastructure for these entities and connects the day-to-day operations to ensure seamless operations across the business. Repeatedly honored as a great place to work and healthiest employer, McCarthy is a 100 percent employee-owned company.

At McCarthy, we are committed to sustaining a culture that delivers great experiences for everyone. This begins with developing high-performing individuals and teams through our award-winning learning and development programs, best-in‑class Total Rewards benefits, and our inclusive culture aligned with our core values: Genuine. We, Not I. All In.

• We Live Our Core Values: We do whatever it takes to deliver on our promises with honesty and integrity.
• We are Employee Owned: We are personally invested in building the things people need in our communities.
• We Feel Like a Family: We value genuine connections and help each other succeed in an inclusive environment.
• We are Builders: We respect the work we do and everyone who helps make it happen safely.

Position Summary

The Vice President, Public Relations leads the modernization, integration, and performance of McCarthy’s public relations function and is the owner of the enterprise McCarthy story and voice. Reporting to the SVP, Marketing and Brand, this leader ties the regions together into one unified PR strategy -creating a more strategic, efficient, and enterprise-aligned model that strengthens reputation, improves coordination across regions, and delivers measurable business value while preserving local relevance.

This is an architect-and-operator role focused on structure, scale, unification, and vendor management. It owns the agency ecosystem and the future of agency work; it does not own crisis communications, which sits with the Director, Public Relations.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise McCarthy story and voice — the single, differentiated narrative McCarthy carries into the market.
• Tie the regions together into one unified PR strategy that preserves local relevance while improving enterprise consistency, governance, and scale.
• Assess and manage the PR agency ecosystem — audit relationships, scopes, contracts, and spend; manage inter-agency relationships; and define the future of agency work, including FleishmanHillard as primary AOR and the regional roster.
• Develop a cost-savings and operating-model proposal, and build governance, intake, workflows, and measurement.
• Own the integrated enterprise PR plan (e.g., the Q4 plan) aligned to campaigns, executives, regions, and milestones.
• Build enterprise systems: media list aggregation, go-to-market toolkits, the speakers bureau operating model, and external-leader amplification.
• Partner with the Director, Public Relations on executive visibility and thought leadership, and with brand, digital, social, events, and business leaders across the enterprise.

What Success Looks Like

• McCarthy has a clearer, more consistent external voice and one unified, enterprise-aligned PR strategy.
• The agency ecosystem is simpler, higher-performing, and more cost-effective, with clear governance.
• PR is less fragmented and more strategically led, with measurement and visibility at the enterprise level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, communications, journalism, marketing, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minium 12+ years of progressive PR and communications experience, including enterprise strategy and agency management.
• Experience leading in a decentralized/matrixed environment strongly preferred.
• Ability to balance enterprise consistency with regional flexibility.
• Operate both strategically and operationally
• Skilled at agency strategy and vendor management
• Ability to lead through influence across regions and functions.

Capabilities

• Enterprise PR strategy and unification
• Enterprise storytelling, voice, and narrative
• Agency strategy and management
• Operating model, governance, and measurement
• Executive amplification and speaker strategy
• Cross-functional and cross-regional leadership

McCarthy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.