Senior Internal Communications Specialist

Ingersoll Rand is committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Business Overview:

Ingersoll Rand is a Fortune 500 company with a passion for making lives better. We do this through a relentless focus on the success of our customers and partnering with our employees to act like owners. We believe in sustainability through the development and distribution of a broad range of global brands designed to meet the needs of our customers in both efficient and responsible ways. For more information, visit www.ingersollrand.com. Ingersoll Rand is a diverse and inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce; including individuals with disabilities and United States qualified protected veterans.

Job Summary:
This key position on our Global Communications team is responsible for helping develop and execute the company’s strategic communications strategy. The final candidate in this role will write, produce and publish content across our core internal channels, including email, digital signage and the intranet; help produce our Global Town Halls, other live events and videos; play a role in driving strong employee engagement, with focus on our manufacturing facilities; consult and collaborate with business partners across the organization in support of key priorities and initiatives; contribute to other important team projects and priorities as needed; and participate in the ongoing evolution of the department in line with best practices and business needs.

This individual will have a proven track record of high-quality writing, project management and working successfully across a highly matrixed globally dispersed and diverse organization.

Come, be part of a collaborative, creative communications team that will play an important role to help build and protect Ingersoll Rand’s reputation, contribute to the company’s ambitious environmental, social and governance (ESG); diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I); engagement; and growth goals.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Content Strategy and Creation

• Support the planning and development of integrated communication strategies and tactics that effectively communicate the vision and goals of strategic initiatives in alignment with the company’s growth agenda.
• Enhance company's storytelling capabilities, showcasing stories that matter and make a difference by sourcing and writing content from internal business partners for our core channels.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Collaboration and Cross-Functional Deployment

• Develop and strengthen working relationships with key internal stakeholders and executives across the organization to support communications and business objectives.
• Write or edit messages for business partners in support of key initiatives or priorities.
• Support the development of and maintain a community of practice of site communicators to ensure message and information sharing, best practices and support.
• Drive consistency in look, feel, and messaging amongst/across communications, keeping in mind brand standards, and provide advisory support and guidance to key partners.

Engagement and Analytics

• Monitor and evaluate overall effectiveness of communication strategies and tactics for continuous improvement.
• Generate fun, creative new ideas to enhance inclusion and engagement for both the corporate and global employee populations.
  

Required Qualifications:

The ideal candidate must demonstrate an ability to prepare strategy, compelling messaging and manage the development and execution of communications plans for the enterprise, help advise on communications solutions that help achieve business objectives, develop strategies and implement tactics to communicate business and project priorities.

• Bachelor's degree in Communication, Public Relations, or a related field.
• Minimum five years related work experience.
• Strong core communications skills — writing, editing, speaking, planning and strategy.
• Ability to write for a variety of audiences across multiple communication channels/formats/vehicles (print, online, broadcast, social, infographics, surveys).
• International experience.
• Thoughtful and influential personal style with the ability to develop strong working relationships with leaders and business partners.
• Experience in using technology tools for measurement and frequent, comprehensive, accurate reporting.
• Excellent organizational skills and experience handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in change management, with the ability to bring people along on the journey and achieve high levels of understanding and adoption.
• An entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new, innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries in communications
• Attention to detail, ability to deliver high-quality work.
• Takes personal responsibility – can be relied on to complete tasks timely and well, demonstrates “ownership” regardless of the outcome, proactive in exploring and exploiting new opportunities.
• High level of integrity, able to handle confidential information.

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Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency.