Communications Manager Level 1

Your Mission, Roles And Responsibilities

• External Communications:
• Define and implement the regional external communication plan to strengthen brand awareness, visibility, and reputation.
• Adapt global messaging to local market contexts while ensuring consistency with corporate positioning and brand guidelines.
• Manage regional communication channels, social media, and content to increase engagement and employer attractiveness.
• Cook up media relations with corporate communications and prepare external materials such as press releases, statements, articles, and speeches.
• Support business announcements, events, customer communications, and thought-leadership opportunities.
• Monitor media coverage, brand perception, and reputational risks to identify communication opportunities.
• Internal Communications:
• Develop internal communication plans aligned with regional priorities, brand ambition, and company culture.
• Ensure clear, consistent communication to employees across countries and functions.
• Support leadership communications for town halls, leadership events, and employee events.
• Promote employee engagement and understanding of the brand, strategy, and culture.
• Adeptly adapt corporate communication materials to regional and local needs while preserving brand consistency.
• Cook up communication during change, transformation, or crisis situations.
• Public Affairs:
• Monitor political, regulatory, and public-policy developments affecting the business or brand reputation.
• Support regional public affairs activities aligned with reputation and brand objectives.
• Prepare briefing materials, position papers, and stakeholder messages for advocacy and public positioning.
• Cook up coordination with internal experts and leadership on sensitive public affairs topics.
• Build relationships with relevant institutional, governmental, and industry stakeholders.
• Strategic Support & Coordination:
• Act as a communication partner to regional leadership on brand, reputation, and stakeholder engagement topics.
• Align closely with corporate communications, public affairs, and business teams to ensure coherent messaging.
• Provide counsel on sensitive, strategic, or high-visibility topics.
• Manage regional communication projects and brand-related initiatives, ensuring timely and consistent execution.
• Support crisis-communication preparedness and response when needed.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Public Affairs, Journalism, Political Science, Marketing, or a related field.
• Experience & Profile:
• Proven experience in communications, ideally in an international or matrix environment.
• Strong background in brand building, corporate communications, reputation management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in internal and external communications; public affairs experience is a strong plus.
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics.
• Ability to advise senior stakeholders and manage high-visibility topics in a dynamic environment.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Fresh in English; other regional languages are a plus.
• Key Competencies:
• Strategic thinking.
• Strong business acumen.
• Brand and reputation management.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
• Stakeholder engagement.
• Influence and diplomacy.
• Agility and responsiveness.
• Collaboration across functions and cultures.

What We Can Do For You

• An engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
• We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment.
• People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients.
• Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
• We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility.
• We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration.
• We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
• Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
• Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.

Why join us

• FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility.
• We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.
• We are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries.
• You'll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.
• In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard.
• We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.
• As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.