Life Fitness - Internal Communications Manager

Brunswick Corporation

Brunswick Corporation (NYSE:BC) is home to the people behind life’s passions. Our company is made up of some of the world’s leading lifestyle brands in categories such as recreational boats, marine engines, fitness equipment, active recreation, and activated workplace products. While we are family to 14,000 employees around the world, three divisions in more than 30 countries create a local environment, with our global headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Mettawa, IL.

http://www.brunswick.com

Position Details

Life Fitness - Internal Communications Manager
Job
Full-time
6/13/2018
Northern Illinois
Rosemont, IL

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

  • Develop and deliver the annual employee engagement and internal communications strategy, with the goals of promoting business literacy; increasing brand awareness, understanding and affiliation; and inspiring employee engagement across the company 
  • Partners with IT to identify, use, and integrate technology that will increase the effectiveness and timeliness of internal communications 
  • Oversees content compilation of internal communication vehicles, including intranet, e-mail announcements, newsletters, webcasts/podcasts, meetings (Town Hall) and presentations 
  • Develops an understanding of cross-functional subject matters and delivers news and information to all areas of the business 
  • Identifies and analyzes business and audience needs to deliver messages via the most appropriate mix of media and channels 
  • Develops training and templates to help leaders manage communications and facilitate dialogue with business partners and employees 
  • Facilitates two-way communication and feedback sharing between executives and employees and sets up and manages an employee “listening” system 
  • Ensures internal communications’ consistency and effectiveness by creating effective internal communication processes and guidelines 
  • Develops measurement criteria and processes that effectively evaluate internal communications programs 
  • Establishes and tracks metrics that help correlate internal communications programs to employee productivity and organization performance 
  • Supports change communications including organizational restructuring

REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism or related field 
  • 5-7 years marketing or communications experience required 
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple demanding initiatives concurrently, balancing multiple priorities, working with minimal supervision and meeting deadlines 
  • Experience in developing and executing company-wide employee communications strategies and programs helpful 
  • Demonstrated experience utilizing intranets, Social Media, video and/or other technological communication tools and methodologies 
  • Proven experience developing and growing internal communications platforms and strategies 
  • Strong background and proven experience in change management preferred 
  • Engagement survey experience preferred 
  • Ability to thrive in chaotic environment with many unknowns and changing objectives 
  • Strong communication (both verbal and written) and presentation skills 
  • Ability to work in a multi-time zone environment 
  • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, including internationally 
  • Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)

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