Communications Specialist

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Chicago, IL, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
Lead internal communications for the Bakery plant to drive employee engagement during change initiatives. Create and coordinate newsletters, videos, monitors, meetings, and intranet content; partner with managers and corporate communications; build a cross‑functional communications team; measure impact with metrics; manage budgets and external vendors.
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Company Description

We help Procurement and Recruiting departments faced with the challenge of filling multiple IT-related openings for either long-term employment, or short-term projects. They need to find reliable candidates, with the right expertise, quickly and at the right cost to enable their company to remain competitive, and to increase profit and efficiency.

Stefanini provides the IT contract resources you need to implement crucial projects, handle short-term assignments, or fulfill long-term placements. Our IT staffing services free you from the challenges of finding, recruiting, training and retaining high-quality professional staff, and allow you to focus on managing your business growth.

We provide the ongoing skill development to ensure that professionals placed at your site are trained in leading technologies to support your information technology hardware, software, and network infrastructure. Augment your staff for short or long-term engagements, or for specialized expertise on specific projects.

We have more than 25 years of staffing industry knowledge and can provide you with superior candidates to match your technical and professional needs.

Job Description

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 (CGA), 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 

Qualifications

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

Additional Information

Contract until 12/26/2015

Skills Required

  • Experience creating communications for manufacturing employees and comfortable working in a plant
  • Minimum 6 years' experience in internal communications and project management-type roles
  • Successful track record in the communications field
  • Ability to manage and influence teams to drive engagement
  • Understanding of internal communications practices, including two-way channels and push/pull methods
  • Strong project management skills
  • Strong understanding of persuasion models and message construction
  • Speech writing, intranet content writing, and collateral writing skills
  • Ability to translate business objectives into language all associates can understand
  • Budget management experience, including managing external vendors
  • Ability to manage project teams
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Proficiency using PowerPoint to create graphs and charts (KPIs)
  • Ability to extract business insights from data and charts
  • Experience in change management communications and/or communications to gain employee engagement
  • Experience working within manufacturing, warehousing or distribution
  • Experience working in a multi-cultural environment
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HQ: Jaguariúna
22,928 Employees

What We Do

We are a global company with 30 years of experience in the market, offering a robust selection of services such as automation, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and user experience (UX). Today, we provide a broad portfolio of solutions, combining innovative consulting, marketing, mobility, personalized campaigns and artificial intelligence services with traditional solutions such as service desk, field service, and outsourcing (BPO). We maintain our excellence by investing in technological innovations, the best partnerships, acquisitions of companies worldwide, and the hiring of highly trained professionals. We believe technology can revolutionize a company and innovation is essential to foster development and competitiveness. We also value new ideas and the power of an open mind, so we recognize every talent is essential to the quality of our projects and especially to our progress

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