Senior Specialist, Corporate Communications

BJ's Wholesale Club

3d • $76,000 - $98,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to the Director, Internal Communications, the Sr. Specialist, Corporate Communications will drive key business priorities that inspire, inform and engage a diverse workforce of more than 33,000+ team members across our 250+ clubs, seven distribution centers and our club support center headquarters office in Marlborough, MA. Responsibilities will include supporting the development and execution of communications strategies, ensuring cohesive messaging and timely execution of deliverables, drafting internal communications content and managing team member events. The ideal candidate will be a strong writer, creative storyteller and innovative strategist, adept in developing print, online, video, social media and in-person communications. In this highly collaborative role and fast-paced environment, this person must be organized and flexible, attentive to detail with great time management skills and work well cross-functionally with a variety of stakeholders from other internal teams.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years of relevant experience in communications, public relations or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism or a related field.
• Excellent written, visual and verbal communications skills, including sharing ideas and information across diverse audiences and creating compelling written and visual content.
• Required to travel frequently (~30-40%) in support of BJ’s new club openings, annual conferences/events and in-club storytelling and video initiatives
• Ability to meet deadlines, manage competing priorities and maintain confidentiality.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and take initiative without extensive direction.
• Strong time management, planning and organization skills, including the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in digital content creation, including video, PowerPoint presentations, social posts, digital newsletters and more.
• Displays business acumen and integrated thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with other communications professionals and internal cross-functional partners to achieve a common goal.
• Experience using social media platforms, primarily LinkedIn.
• Excellent project management skills to align diverse teams and accomplish the desired outcome.
• Advanced proficiency in Office 365 with strong experience creating visually dynamic PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.

Nice To Haves

• Design experience with image editing software, including Photoshop or Canva, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support overall corporate communications team’s goals and objectives
• Plan, create and write business communications on a variety of topics that span company announcements, meeting presentations, multimedia, video scripts, key messages and talking points.
• Draft, prepare and publish content for the corporate intranet, digital newsletters and signage, and executive and company presentations and speeches.
• Support with deck development for company-wide town halls, divisional all-hands meetings, investor presentations, board meetings and more.
• Coordinate and execute logistics for company-wide meetings, all-hands meetings and department broadcasts (whether virtual webinars or in-person), along with other large-scale, strategic meetings that may occur.
• Coordinate video shoot logistics, support production, post-production editing and manage relationship with producer.
• Ensure consistent messaging throughout various internal communications and materials.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for best practices in grammar, messaging, tone and style, as well as content creation, communications strategies and distribution.
• Oversee events agency with research, development, planning and on-site execution of our team member celebrations and new club opening events (frequent travel anticipated).
• Assist in the planning, development and execution of our annual BJ’s Operations Leadership Conferences with over 500 field leadership team members.

Benefits

• Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
• Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.

What This Job Offers

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