Communications Manager - Executive and Enterprise

Land O'Lakes•Arden Hills, MN

About The Position

The Executive and Enterprise Communications Manager develops and executes communications strategies that support executive visibility, priority business initiatives, and the enterprise reputation. The role partners with enterprise leaders and Communications colleagues to connect business priorities, executive platforms, and enterprise initiatives through clear, consistent messaging and a shared narrative of value and growth. The position provides strategic counsel to enterprise leadership, engages leaders and stakeholders early in decision-making, identifies communication needs and stakeholder considerations, recommends messaging approaches, and helps reduce risk. It develops enterprise narratives and messaging architecture, supports communications planning and activation, and partners across internal teams and agencies to deliver storytelling, public relations, marketing, external engagement, and social or channel communications. The role also helps coordinate crisis communications, monitors performance measures, and coaches communications colleagues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, or a related field.
8+ years of progressive corporate communications experience, including significant direct experience providing strategic counsel to C-suite and executive-level leaders.
Experience supporting integrated communications campaigns, executive visibility programs, earned media strategies, agency partnerships, and high-profile events or activations.
Ability to understand business priorities, provide communications counsel, recommend practical solutions, and navigate complex matrixed environments.
Ability to connect business and functional priorities, identify interdependencies, and support consistent messaging across internal and external audiences.
Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex business issues into clear, engaging narratives for executive-level delivery.
Demonstrated success collaborating with integrated teams spanning internal communications, government relations, public relations, brand marketing, and agency partners to deliver integrated communications plans.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in communications, Business Administration (MBA), or a related discipline.
Experience supporting issues management or public affairs communications.
Experience in agriculture, food, or other regulated and/or manufacturing sectors.
Experience leading, coaching, and developing a team of communications professionals.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior communications partner to enterprise leadership, providing strategic counsel and support for consistent messaging and execution.
Engage leaders and key stakeholders early in decision-making to identify communication needs, assess stakeholder considerations, recommend messaging approaches, and reduce risk.
Develop communications strategies that align and engage internal teams while creating compelling external narratives.
Connect enterprise priorities to differentiated narratives that build organizational alignment around enterprise value and a growth mindset.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise messaging architecture, using structure and best practices to support alignment during complex moments and transformations.
Partner with Communications functional partners, including Business Communications, Central Marketing, and agencies, on strategic storytelling, public relations, marketing activations, external engagement, and social or channel delivery.
Support longer-range communications and activation plans, identifying ways to bring enterprise narratives to life through executive platforms, earned media, marketing campaigns, events, and other high-impact moments.
Work with agency teams and internal subject matter experts to develop briefs, shape creative and communications approaches, and coordinate integrated execution against enterprise priorities.
Support proactive and reactive issues by developing recommendations and coordinating crisis communications to protect and enhance corporate reputation.
Deliver disciplined communications execution for key enterprise and executive initiatives, ensuring deliverables meet rigorous quality standards.
Coordinate executive and enterprise communications.
Monitor KPIs, share insights with stakeholders, and recommend adjustments to improve the effectiveness of enterprise communications initiatives.
Build, motivate, and coach communications colleagues, such as storytelling and speechwriting colleagues, and foster a collaborative, high-performing culture.