Director, Commercial & Wealth Communications

About the role

BMO’s high-growth U.S. Banking group is seeking a leader for its communications portfolio supporting our Commercial and Wealth businesses, demonstrating that BMO helps clients, communities and colleagues make real financial progress and supporting our growth goals. The Director, Commercial & Wealth Communications is responsible for developing an external positioning platform for BMO’s leading Commercial Bank with crossover to consideration for our Wealth business. They will lead a team of experienced professionals and vendors to execute internal and external elements of their plan, in addition to internal communications for key elements of our U.S. Banking communications program. Must demonstrate ability to create and lead strategic communications that support both reputation and culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of experienced professionals and vendors to execute internal and external communications plans.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to assess communications needs, recommend plans & solutions, secure approvals, and create/deliver communication solutions.
• Deliver high‑quality communications that target audiences can easily access, understand, and act on, aligned with company standards and values.
• Develop a positioning platform and supporting program for BMO’s U.S. Commercial Bank, reaching business owners and leaders.
• Apply an integrated communications lens across stakeholder audiences, maintaining internal communications approaches that support alignment and engagement.
• Oversee executive communications professionals partnering with executive leaders.
• Collaborate across communications, media relations, marketing and business partners to achieve positioning goals.
• Provide strategic external communication counsel and support to senior leadership to build BMO’s broader brand and reputation among business owners and leaders.
• Proactively identify stories and opportunities to profile business advancements aligned with the value proposition and client segment strategy.
• Use analytics and competitive benchmarking to measure success and demonstrate impact.
• Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders to understand business objectives, identify opportunities and maximize results.
• Provide competitive intelligence and insight to inform strategy.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory policies, digital and brand guidelines, updating standards and processes as required to mitigate risk and improve effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Integrated communications experience required.
• Marketing experience in a B2B environment a plus.
• Ability to take technical and complex information and distill it to key messages that make sense.
• Demonstrated