Dairy MAX Vice President - Communications

Dairy MAX • Dallas, TX

22h

About The Position

The Vice President, Corporate Communications is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping, advancing, and executing Dairy MAX’s integrated communications strategy with an enhanced and intentional focus on farmer engagement, alignment, and trust-building. Partnering closely with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), this role ensures Dairy MAX’s communications elevate farmer voices, strengthen producer relationships, and clearly connect organizational strategy to on‑farm impact. This leader serves as the steward of Dairy MAX’s reputation, brand narrative, and advocacy efforts ensuring consistent, authentic, and compelling communications across internal teams, farmers, boards, partners, and external stakeholders. The VP will drive alignment across verticals and Centers of Excellence (CoEs), ensuring communications reinforce Dairy MAX’s strategic priorities while deepening credibility, transparency, and engagement with farmers.

Requirements

• Strategic Communications Leadership: Proven ability to design and execute integrated communication strategies aligned with organizational and farmer priorities.
• Farmer & Stakeholder Engagement: Deep experience building trust‑based relationships with farmers, boards, and industry partners.
• Brand & Reputation Management: Expertise in positioning an organization as a credible, trusted industry leader.
• Advocacy & Storytelling: Ability to translate complex industry topics into compelling, farmer‑relevant narratives.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Strong ability to partner across teams and CoEs to drive alignment and execution.
• Leadership & Influence: Ability to lead teams, inspire confidence, and influence at the executive and board level.
• Crisis & Issues Management: Experience navigating sensitive situations while maintaining transparency and brand integrity.
• Internal Communications: Skilled at engaging employees through clear, purposeful communication.
• Data‑Driven Decision Making: Ability to leverage insights and impact data to inform strategy and measure effectiveness.
• Budget management: Collaborate with appropriate Communication team members and agency personnel in creating accurate budget projections. Monitor and manage within the specified program area budget, approving estimates and invoices as necessary. Reconcile program costs against budget for appropriate budget accounts. Work with team and vendors to manage/mitigate third party costs for maximum benefit to the organization

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Alignment
• Farmer Engagement & Communications
• Brand, Reputation & Public Relations
• Advocacy & Storytelling
• Internal Communications & Culture
• Board & External Alignment

Benefits

• We know that in order to meet our goal of growing dairy demand, we need the best people. We offer competitive compensation and generous benefits to help our employees balance their work and personal lives.
• Dairy MAX is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to the principles of diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees