DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, ENGAGEMENT & PUBLIC RELATIONS

You have a gift for storytelling and a strong desire to engage your audience on a human level. You’re passionate about connecting people, and in this case, you’ll be connecting the ideas and initiatives of the leadership of Compass Group USA to our associates around the country. Because you realize people have a lot going on, you love leading teams who craft language that delivers a clear, concise message that also inspires action. You’re determined, passionate, humble, flexible, gritty, curious, vulnerable, innovative and bold. You have sound judgment, a good sense of humor and a strong desire to win. You get along with people and are energized by ideas and hard work. You are the go-to person for guidance and development of strong communication initiatives and strategies.

You will be front and center as Compass Group thinks differently about how we engage and interact with our team members, leadership, and externally across the US through written and verbal messaging while also supporting external communications. If you’re a leader that can build strategies that can deliver 100 percent reach in all that we communicate, then we’d love to get together and talk!

• Partner closely with our HR leaders to design and deliver internal & external communications strategies tailored to our audiences
• Provide guidance and help prepare high quality presentations our senior level executives will share with key audiences
• Oversee various communications projects that promote ideas and initiatives and build associate and external engagement
• Work closely with all of your corporate communication team members to ensure engagement and cohesiveness is fostered, recognizing that many projects align across several buckets
• Guide key leaders and communicators with messaging across the business
• Manage support of the legal team in crisis management and communications
• Manage workflow from ideation to creation to final edits
• Manage a small team of communication professionals to meet overall company demands
• Identify and engage with outside vendors in developing verbal and visual messaging, with a strong emphasis on video, photography and graphic design
• Oversee repository of photo and video for Compass Group communication channels

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, PR, Journalism or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years’ experience managing others preferred
• Excellent writing and communication skills including experience in executive presentations
• Basic video creation and editing skills along with experience working with videographers in scheduling, producing, writing and editing short video messages
• An eye for detail and the ability to write from the heart
• Strong leadership skills, a teacher at heart
• A desire to take risks and question how things have been done in the past in a respectful, thoughtful manner
• Supreme organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritize
• An open mind, with the ability to receive edits and changes in all work you do
• Great understanding and demonstrated resolve for the details and meet deadlines
• Excellent PPT skill
• 10 years’ experience in Corporate Communications, Journalism or PR with the understanding this is both internal and external communications
• Ability to create and edit simple videos for social media is a plus