Communications Manager- Remote

AI Accelerator Communications  

• Leads development and execution of communications strategy for the AI Accelerator, including employee and business partner communications.
• Establishes and manages AIA communication channels (e.g., newsletters, intranet/Connect page, leadership messaging, and engagement forums).
• Defines communication cadence, content strategy, and audience segmentation to drive awareness and understanding of AIA’s capabilities and operating model.
• Develops and executes launch communications to position AIA across the enterprise.
• Creates compelling storytelling around AIA initiatives, projects, and success stories.

Communication Strategy

• Develops and executes communication strategies that drive the strategic plan for the assigned business
• Develops and refines communications best practices with businesses, including communications strategies, plans and related toolkits to drive greater consistency and effectiveness.
• Partners on communication strategies to increase access to information for external and internal stakeholders, and promote and protect Stryker’s corporate reputation.

Change Management

• Uses strategic planning to enable organizational change.
• Aids development of communication strategies to enable divisional change.

Effective Communications

• Communicates effectively with diverse audiences, using appropriate media and language.
• Ensures important messages are clearly understood.
• Writes reports and/or articles to the business or professional community.
• Monitors developments in communications tools for potential use by organization.

Effective Presentations

• Prepares and delivers complex presentations to large or critical technical and business audiences.
• Coaches others in all aspects of preparing and giving a formal presentation.
• Monitors industry for new presentation tools and techniques that are useful to organization.
• Delivers formal presentations in a public or professional forum.
• Coaches others on methods of improving their own communications.
• Defines and organizes the content and flow of a multi-media, multi-speaker presentation.

Executive Visibility

• Counsel senior leaders on high-impact opportunities to further business goals.
• Develop messaging, presentations and communication materials to support AIA leadership for internal and external engagements.

Brand Advocacy and Communications Guidelines

• Consults others on graphic design for a full range of business needs
• Advocate for brand guideline implementation and participate in discussions to further our brand
• Align and guide team members to follow company’s external communications guidelines and understanding and adherence to those guidelines, and provide feedback to further evolve.

Internal Communications

• Establishes an internal communication mechanism within the organization.
• Works with leadership to determine messaging strategy
• Consults on the design and development of internal publications and reference materials.
• Establishes policies and procedures for internal publications, events and announcements.
• Generates case studies of effective and ineffective communication.
• Promotes the organization's effectiveness of internal communication through major campaigns.
• Develop, maintain and optimize internal channels and ensure connectivity to rest of the company.
• Ensure communications are in alignment with the business and company’s strategies, goals, objectives and brand, and ensure review and approvals are in accordance with current processes and procedures.

Engagement Measurement

• Develops effective mechanisms for reviewing measurements and assessing progress.
• Creates a climate in which measurement of effectiveness and continuous improvement is a standard practice.
• Coaches others on the theory and practice of metrics.

Copywriting and Editing

• Writes and edits a full spectrum of business-related publications.
• Leads in writing content such as speeches, press releases and other high-exposure documents
• Advocates new methods for writing and editing processes, techniques and solutions.
• Develops business plans to identify, recommend and set up writing operations.

Creativity

• Creates a climate that cultivates imagination, new ideas, and experimentation.
• Promotes an environment that encourages patience and learning from failures.
• Positions setbacks or failures as learning opportunities.
• Champions new initiatives within and beyond scope of position.
• Monitors the industry for creative ideas and solutions that can be used internally.
• Directs creativity toward effective implementation of business solutions.

Competitive Insights

• Consults on a variety of competitive and/or industry insights globally.
• Identifies gaps and implements processes to improve competitive communications effectiveness
• Aids in analyses of the organization's current and potential competitive communications strategies.
• Builds a network leaders to gain high-level insight that is used to shape strategy and messaging.

What you need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years of work experience
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal communications skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects while delivering on established timelines
• Ability to be persuasive in the absence of organizational authority
• Must be able to understand and work within complex interdivisional procedures and policies
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint) 
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments

Preferred

• 5+ years' experience in communications and/or marketing
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder groups 
• Strong change management acumen 
• Strong visual storytelling skills, including development of executive-level presentations