Communication Specialist

SUMMARY:

- The individual will be responsible for all internal communication within the Bakery, ensuring that the internal communications and engagement strategies are aligned with business objectives and fostering a two-way between management and employees.
- The vision is to create employee engagement through our change initiatives with transparent communications, change management tools and employee inclusion.
- These activities will shape what employees believe about the company, will be designed to encourage positive behavior changes and foster positive emotion about the company as a great place to work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Orchestrate and coordinate all the plant communication (newsletters, monitors, videos, regular meetings, etc.)
- Meet with managers to get their input and then write the communication
- Create communications team of hourly and salaried employees
- In collaboration with internal communications and media relations, ensure that the Bakery's messages and communications are consistent and timely for all key audiences
- Implement appropriate metrics to evaluate the success and impact of communication

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Must have experience in creating communication for manufacturing employees, comfortable working in a plant.
- Requires successful track record of experience in the communication field
- Requires the ability to manage and influence teams to drive engagement and communications to deliver best-in-class results
- Understanding of internal communications practices, including two way channels and pull and push methods of communication
- Strong project management skills
- Must have strong understanding of persuasion models and message construction
- Must be adept at speech writing, Intranet content writing and collateral writing
- Must be able to translate business objectives to a basic language all associates can understand
- Must be able to manage budgets (managing external vendors)
- Must be able to manage project teams
- Experience working within Manufacturing, warehousing or distribution preferred
- Minimum 6 years' experience in internal communications and project management type roles
- Bachelor's Degree
- Must be able to communicate using PowerPoint graphs, charts (KPIs mainly)
- Ability to pull out business information from data/charts
- Experience in Change Management communications and/or communications to gain employee engagement
- Prefer experience in working in multi-cultural environment