Manager, Communications Strategic Enablement (Hybrid)

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions! Reporting to the Vice President, Strategic Enablement, the Manager, Communications Strategic Enablement will empower communicators across the function through tools, processes and data that enhance communications impact. This role will be a consultant to colleagues across the communications function and the broader enterprise, providing perspective on industry trends, supplying data-driven insights, and identifying innovative solutions to challenges. You will be the driver behind critical team functions including media monitoring and analysis, internal content analytics and issues monitoring, and internal polling/survey initiatives. Collaborating with colleagues across Strategic Enablement, the communications function and the wider company, you will help ensure accuracy and timeliness of insights, translate data into strategic actions, and ensure tools and technology are aligned to support enterprise goals. This role may also support proprietary research initiatives and other complex intelligence efforts to enhance the impact of communications. The current employee work arrangement for this position is hybrid and requires your on-site presence on a reoccurring basis as determined by your business. Your manager will provide additional details relative to the specific number of days you are expected to be on-site.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience with a focus on communications or PR.
• Strong track record of leveraging data-based insights for strategic improvement and translating findings for non-technical audiences.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels.
• Self-starter with a solutions mindset and ability to work in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with communications measurement and comfort with data.
• Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of the organizational environment to manage resources and decisions.
• Penchant for Action: Critical thinker and motivated doer, driving projects forward independently.
• Outcomes Focus: Prioritizes projects that support business objectives and add clear value.
• Creativity: Generates practical solutions to solve problems through data insights.
• Persuasive Influence: Resolves conflicts and gains buy-in for complex projects.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with communications and PR strategy and tactics.
• Familiarity with data analysis in the context of communications and PR.
• Experience with the financial services industry.
• Proficiency with media monitoring and social listening tools (e.g. Meltwater, Cision, Brandwatch, Factiva, Signal AI, Spinklr, Quid) and Boolean logic.
• Exposure to AI tools/technology in a communications or PR environment
• Experience with analytics tools and technologies (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau, Adobe Analytics, Python, SQL).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with strategists across Prudential Communications and the broader enterprise to understand strategic needs and deliver innovative solutions. data-driven insights that empower strategic decision-making.
• Enable and upskill communications partners, offering guidance on tools, processes and information that enhances impact and empowers strategic decision-making.
• Monitor the external communications environment to surface new insights and best practices that improve speed, efficacy and sophistication of the communications function.
• Support the Director(s), Strategic Enablement by: Leading efforts in gathering and compiling data on external media, social and internal communications, using a suite of tools and overseeing external vendors.
• Coaching colleagues on the use of self service analytics platforms to enhance communications impact.
• Continually assessing our communications technology and vendor landscape to ensure maximum value and ensure we are constantly leveling up to meet the needs of the function.
• Leveraging analytics and AI tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Copilot and more to extract actionable insights from data.

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed