Employee Communications Team Lead, North America

About the role

The Employee Communications Team Lead will develop and implement communications strategies that connect Stantec's people to one another and to our purpose. This role partners closely with business operating units, regional organization, and leaders across North America to ensure clear, effective, and timely communications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support impactful communications plans, including creative campaign concepts, implementation approaches, and timelines.
• Lead and develop a team of communication professionals, providing coaching, direction, performance feedback, and support to foster engagement, growth, and high performance.
• Manage partnerships and relationships across the business, specifically within our North America region, to align practices to successful outcomes.
• Create compelling content across channels, including email, intranet articles, blogs, and video briefs, adapting messages for different audiences and formats.
• Build a deep understanding of audience needs and operational priorities, including language considerations, to deliver targeted and effective communications.
• Lead the planning, delivery, and ongoing management of newsletters, town halls, and other key communication moments.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with leaders and internal partners to enable clear, effective, and timely communications.
• Mentor team members and interns, demonstrating both knowledge and expertise.
• Identify and shape key issues and messages by gathering, analyzing, and integrating information from multiple and sometimes competing sources.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, and support processes that drive consistency and efficiency when it comes to communications across North America operations.
• Communicate with purpose to inform, engage, build alignment, and support meaningful behavior change.
• Confidently manage multiple priorities, assessing urgency and impact while maintaining quality and accuracy.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness of communications across channels, using insights to inform future decisions.
• Collaborate closely with the rest of our marketing, communications, and public relations organization, including our graphic design and video teams, digital teams responsible for our intranet content, leadership and functional communications team, and others.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills.
• Ability to communicate with partners of all levels.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing environments.
• Excellent collaboration and strategic planning skills.
• Ability to work with a team, as well as independently and with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated proficiency with web-based tools and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience working within another large organization is considered an asset.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing preferred.
• 7+ years’ progressive experience working in a communications-related role for large, complex organizations.
• A minimum of 3 years in a people leadership role.

Skills

• Strategic thinking.
• Team leadership.
• Collaboration.
• Project management.

Benefits

Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.