Corporate Archivist & Chief Historian

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This dual-hatted role leads the preservation and activation of our company's nearly 200-year history to best support Corporate Communications’ mission to protect and build P&G's reputation. This leader will wear two critical hats: as the Corporate Archivist, they are the ultimate steward of our physical and digital heritage collection; as the Chief Historian, they are a strategic communications leader who wields our history to provide authenticity, context, and proof for the stories P&G tells.  This is a role for a leader who is both the guardian of the physical past and the chief architect of its narrative.

This individual will lead a program that continues to use our historical archives not as a passive collection of materials, but as a dynamic engine for reputation management—inspiring employees, informing brand strategy, protecting intellectual property, and ensuring our past serves as a powerful catalyst and credible foundation for our future.

This role's responsibilities are divided into three core functions:

1. Corporate Archivist: Collection Stewardship & Strategy

• Archival Management: Direct all aspects of archival administration, including collection development, appraisal, processing, and preservation to ensure materials are discoverable and preserved.
• Operational Excellence: Champion best-in-class archival practices, improving workflows and leveraging emerging technologies (e.g., AI) to enhance access and discovery.
• Leadership: Oversee the archival budget, manage vendor relationships, and lead a team of archival staff and project-based contractors.

2. Chief Historian: Reputation & Narrative Activation

• Strategic Storytelling: Translate historical assets into powerful, relevant narratives that build and protect P&G's corporate reputation, particularly around our pillars of innovation, brand and category leadership, citizenship, and superior performance.
• Content & Communications Partnership: Arm communicators and leaders with the historical proof points, stories, and context needed to engage effectively with media, employees, and external stakeholders.
• Heritage Center Curation: Lead the content strategy and physical curation of the P&G Heritage Center, transforming it into a primary channel for communicating P&G’s values and character to internal and external audiences.
• Proactive Activation: Identify stories from our past that can add depth and credibility to current business and communications campaigns, ensuring our history is a proactive, not reactive, tool.

3. Enterprise Partnership & Strategic Service

• Indispensable Partner: Serve as a strategic partner to both the broader Corporate Communications team (Media, Employee, Executive) and key business functions including Brand, Legal, A&I, and R&D as needed.
• Expert Research: Provide rapid-response, expert research to support high-stakes needs, from reputational issue navigation (Communications), to in-depth issues-based brand sessions (Brand), and trademark defense and patent history defense (Legal).
• Spokesperson: Serve as a credible and compelling corporate spokesperson on historical matters, representing P&G’s heritage to media, key stakeholders, and VIPs.

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Key Skills & Qualifications

• Dual Expertise: A rare blend of deep archival knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of how corporate narrative and authenticity contribute to reputation management.
• Strategic Narrative Builder: The ability to craft compelling stories that advance specific communications objectives, moving beyond simple facts to create emotional resonance.
• Advanced Archival Knowledge: Mastery of archival theory, digital preservation, and descriptive standards to ensure the collection's integrity.
• Executive Presence & Partnership: Proven ability to build trust and act as a credible, service-oriented partner to senior executives and cross-functional teams.
• Leadership & Project Management: Strong skills in managing staff, budgets, and complex, multi-year projects.
• Tech Fluency & Growth Mindset: An eagerness to creatively solve challenges and leverage new technologies (e.g., AI) to make heritage more dynamic and accessible.
• Discretion & Judgment: Absolute integrity and experience handling sensitive materials, intellectual property, and confidential corporate information.

Educational & Professional Requirements

• Required: Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited program in Library/Information Science (MLS/MLIS) with a concentration in Archives Management, OR an advanced degree (MA/PhD) in History or Public History combined with significant archival experience.
• Highly Preferred: Professional experience working within or in close partnership with a corporate communications, public relations, or public affairs function.
• Experience: A minimum of 10-15 years of professional archival/historical experience with progressively increasing responsibility. Corporate archives experience is essential.
• Required: Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in a leadership role, including direct management of staff and budgets.

Certification: Certified Archivist (CA) designation is desirable.

Compensation for roles at P&G varies depending on a wide array of non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, degree/credentials, relevant skill set, and level of relevant experience. At P&G compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Total rewards at P&G include salary + bonus (if applicable) + benefits.  Your recruiter may be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant location(s) during the hiring process.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Qualified individuals will not be disadvantaged based on being unemployed.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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