VP Corporate Communications

Boardwalk Pipelines, LP Human Resources•Houston, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Corporate Communications provides strategic leadership and direction for enterprise communications, ensuring employees and external stakeholders receive clear, consistent messaging that supports the company’s strategy, growth, culture, and reputation. In a fast-paced, high-growth midstream energy environment, the role serves as a trusted advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team and partners with leaders across the company to align communications with organizational priorities. The position leads enterprise, executive, internal, and external communications; media relations; reputation management; thought leadership; digital communications; corporate storytelling; and crisis, issues, and change communications. It establishes communications strategies, priorities, standards, processes, governance, and channel strategies, and oversees corporate brand positioning and identity. The Vice President leads a team of six communications professionals and manages communications resources, budgets, digital channels, brand standards, tools, vendors, and external agency relationships. The role is based in the company’s Houston, Texas office.

Requirements

20+ years of progressive communications leadership experience, including senior leadership responsibility in corporate communications, internal communications, public relations, executive communications, media relations, crisis communications, organizational change, or reputation management.
Proven experience advising CEOs, Executive Leadership Teams, senior leaders, and Boards on complex, high-visibility communications matters.
Deep expertise in executive communications, enterprise storytelling, crisis communications, media relations, organizational change, digital communications, corporate reputation, and stakeholder engagement.
Demonstrated success supporting rapid growth, acquisitions, major capital projects, leadership transitions, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
Strong writing, editing, messaging, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics.
Proven ability to lead communications teams, manage priorities, develop talent, oversee budgets and agencies, and build effective operating models.
Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, Business, English, or a related field.
Pre-employment drug and substance abuse testing is required.

Nice To Haves

Executive leadership experience in energy, midstream, industrial, infrastructure, asset-intensive, or another highly regulated industry is strongly preferred.
Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute an enterprise communications strategy aligned with business objectives, growth priorities, culture, and reputation.
Advise the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, and senior leaders on communications opportunities, risks, stakeholder impacts, and messaging strategies.
Translate complex business, operational, regulatory, legislative, organizational, and reputational topics into clear communications for diverse audiences.
Establish enterprise communications priorities, standards, processes, governance, and channel strategies.
Lead executive communications, including CEO messaging, Board presentations, speeches, town halls, talking points, strategic announcements, and enterprise messages.
Strengthen leadership visibility and credibility through clear, authentic, and timely messaging.
Anticipate communications needs related to business initiatives, acquisitions, capital projects, leadership transitions, organizational changes, employee matters, and external developments.
Partner with internal functions and business leaders to align messaging and stakeholder engagement.
Direct internal communications that connect employees to company strategy, priorities, culture, safety mindset, operating expectations, growth, and organizational change.
Develop communications plans for enterprise initiatives, acquisitions, capital projects, leadership transitions, engagement programs, and culture-building efforts.
Improve employee communication channels and use feedback, metrics, and employee insights to improve communications effectiveness.
Lead external communications, media relations, reputation management, thought leadership, digital communications, and corporate storytelling.
Develop external positioning that reflects the company’s role as a midstream energy infrastructure provider.
Prepare messaging and response strategies for media inquiries, stakeholder and community matters, industry matters, and reputational risks.
Coordinate with Government & External Affairs on messaging for regulatory, legislative, permitting, community, industry, and stakeholder initiatives.
Provide strategic oversight of corporate brand positioning, identity, and reputation.
Lead communications planning and execution for crises, emergency response, operational incidents, business continuity events, reputational matters, and sensitive employee or stakeholder issues.
Develop and maintain crisis communications protocols, message templates, approval pathways, and readiness plans with relevant leaders and functions.
Advise leaders during change, ambiguity, heightened stakeholder attention, and reputationally sensitive situations.
Conduct post-event reviews and continuous improvement to strengthen communications readiness, response capabilities, and cross-functional coordination.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of six communications professionals, establishing roles, responsibilities, standards, and accountability.
Establish operating rhythms, prioritization processes, and performance measures for the communications team.
Manage communications resources, budgets, digital channels, brand standards, tools, vendors, and external agency relationships.
Foster proactive planning, business partnership, disciplined execution, urgency, continuous improvement, and professional growth.