Manager, Corporate Communications & Thought Leadership
About the role
Drive PMI’s corporate communications and thought-leadership agenda by shaping how the company and its executives articulate their points of view across priority themes and emerging conversations.
This role ensures PMI delivers clear, credible, and differentiated positioning, equipping senior leaders with the messaging and content needed to actively contribute to high-impact, agenda-setting discussions.
The role operates at the center of Corporate & Executive Communications, working in close partnership with Executive Communications, Partnerships & Content, and Business Integrated Communications to ensure coherence, clarity, and authority in how PMI shows up externally.
AI is an integral part of the role, supporting research, idea generation, and message development, as well as testing narratives to enhance impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead PMI’s thought-leadership agenda across priority themes and emerging topics
- Develop corporate positioning and executive-ready messaging
- Create high-impact content including speeches, op-eds, POVs, briefing materials, and long-form thought-leadership pieces
- Shape executive positioning and points of view for senior leaders across priority themes, ensuring alignment with PMI’s corporate positioning while remaining authentic to individual voices and relevant to external discourse
- Develop executive-ready messaging for interviews, panels, and strategic speaking opportunities, including tailored talking points, narrative flows, and supporting materials
- Ensure consistency and quality of messaging across all executive outputs—continuously refining content based on external feedback, media dynamics, and evolving conversations
- Drive the positioning, preparation, and delivery of high-stakes external engagements, including development of briefing materials, Q&A frameworks, and message stress-testing
- Own the development and drive the placement of PMI’s thought leadership across earned media, strategic speaking platforms, and agenda-setting forums, in close coordination with the Press Office and Executive Communications
- Frame PMI’s participation in priority external moments to ensure its points of view are expressed with clarity, credibility, and impact across all touchpoints
- Stress test narratives and messaging against external sentiment, media dynamics, and evolving public discourse to strengthen impact and credibility
Requirements
8–12 years in corporate communications, strategic communications, or executive communications
Strong experience developing thought-leadership content and preparing senior leaders for external engagements
Experience working closely with media teams, journalists, or editorial environments
Experience in global, cross-functional organizations
Key Skills
- Exceptional writing and storytelling across formats
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to shape positioning in complex and high visibility contexts
- Strong editorial judgment and external perspective
- Strong creative and judgment in shaping narratives from complex and evolving topics
- Deep understanding of external landscapes, with the ability to interpret trends and translate them into relevant messaging
What Great Looks Like
- PMI is recognized as a credible and influential voice in priority external conversations
- Senior leaders are consistently well-prepared and impactful in high-stakes engagements
- Thought-leadership content is sharp, relevant, and aligned with PMI’s direction
- PMI’s POV's are not only developed, but effectively placed in the right external forums
Who we are looking for
Someone with 8–12 years in corporate communications, strategic communications, or executive communications
Strong experience developing thought-leadership content and preparing senior leaders for external engagements
Experience working closely with media teams, journalists, or editorial environments
Experience in global, cross-functional organizations
Annual Base Salary Range
$149,600 - $187,000
What we offer
- Competitive base salary
- Annual bonus (applicable based on level of position)
- Great medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with a generous company match
- Incredible wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
- Generous PTO
- Many more perks!
Mindset & Ways of Working
- Curious, outward-looking, and tuned into global conversations
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping emerging topics
- Detail-oriented with high standards for quality
- Proactive and confident in challenging and refining messaging
- Highly attuned to external conversations, with strong instinct for what is timely and relevant
- Uses AI tools effectively to support research, ideation, and message development
Company Information
PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
PMI is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., and its U.S. affiliates have more than 3,000 employees.
PMI has been an entirely separate company from Altria and Philip Morris USA since 2008.
PMI’s affiliates first entered the U.S. market following the company’s acquisition of Swedish Match in late 2022.
Philip Morris International and its U.S. affiliates are working to deliver a smoke-free future.
Since 2008, PMI has invested $12.5 billion globally to develop, scientifically substantiate, and commercialize innovative smoke-free products for adults who would otherwise continue to smoke with the goal of transitioning legal-age consumers who smoke to better alternatives.
In 2022, PMI acquired Swedish Match – a leader in oral nicotine delivery – creating a global smoke-free champion led by the IQOS and ZYN brands.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized versions of PMI’s IQOS electronically heated tobacco devices and Swedish Match’s General snus as Modified Risk Tobacco Products and renewal applications for these products are presently pending before the FDA.
For more information, please visit www.pmi.com/us and www.pmiscience.com.