Director, Communications

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Waltham, MA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Thermo Fisher Scientific seeks a Director, Communications, to develop a comprehensive communications strategy that supports our enterprise AI initiatives and IT & Digital function. You are a passionate and innovative leader who will develop and lead an integrated internal and external communications strategy to effectively communicate across our stakeholders, including colleagues, customers and the community. You will plan, develop and implement company-wide communication programs in partnership with our Communications colleagues, while serving as a trusted advisor to leaders across the company. We're looking for a team member with strong leadership skills, creativity, a strategic point of view that aligns with the goals of the business, and someone who can anticipate the needs of the company, operate with a solutions-mindset and pivot as the market environment changes. As a leader of emerging talent, you should be an experienced people leader who can motivate, inspire and influence across groups.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Public Relations, Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or English
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in external and internal communications with a blend of public relations, internal communications, social media, employee communications, and marketing communications experience
• Extensive experience in external and internal communications with a blend of public relations, internal communications, social media, employee communications and marketing communications experience
• Variety of relevant business experience which should demonstrate the ability to quickly study a business, understand the value-enablers, and relate to bottom-line impact, executive presence
• Experience in working in a heavily matrixed work environment
• Hiring, mentoring and developing teams
• Proven success in external and internal communication strategies across media and public relations, social media and employee engagement
• Ability to influence business partners and facilitate collaboration and alignment between business and corporate objectives
• Sound problem solving skills, e.g., ability to objectively analyze current practices, identify root cause problems and improvement opportunities, formulate a range of achievable options, outline relative strengths, build consensus for a preferred solution
• Bottom-line results-oriented, e.g., financial and general business acumen, focused on operational and process improvement to work efficiently
• Effective communication skills, e.g., collaborative open style, working in teams, strong written and oral communicator, strategic thinker with ability to execute plans, calm under fire, go-to person
• Strategic in a practical way, e.g., understand emerging communication trends and ability to extrapolate them to practical business applications
• Proven skills in MS Office tools, especially PowerPoint
• MS SharePoint content creation/experience a strong plus
• Demonstrates key characteristics of a world-class communication function including trust, focus, empowerment, accountability and ownership and operating with a 'one team' mentality

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic, impactful and measurable communications that advance business goals and reputation
• Drives the strategic narrative for top executives, including the Chief Information Officer, crafting messaging that align with company goals while maintaining an authentic leadership voice
• In partnership with stakeholders across the company, develop enterprise-wide narratives on high-impact priorities, including AI, advancing understanding and ensuring Thermo Fisher defines and leads the conversation
• Anticipate challenges, provide counsel, and resolve issues for senior executives
• Define the channels and format of key stakeholder communications
• Reduce complex content and analysis into simple, compelling storylines for employees at all levels in the organization
• Lead a team of communicators, guiding their development to cultivate future talent
• Development and delivery of a company-wide internal communication strategy inclusive of global engagement campaigns and ongoing awareness and education of company programs and initiatives
• Advancement of a values-based culture that attracts and retains top talent and inspires employees to become brand ambassadors
• In a highly matrixed environment, drive collaboration between enterprise and business communications, to ensure alignment in messaging and delivery for maximum impact
• Lead a team of dedicated individuals, advancing their development and contributing to the overall communication team as we build a world-class function
• Create awareness, excitement, and understanding of business topics, new programs and/or processes
• Drive new approaches to deliver communications in more creative, efficient, and effective ways by challenging current processes and recommending new approaches
• Develop metrics and processes that help us measure communications impact and reinforce our culture of achievement and accountability

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees