Communications Manager

Are you a Communications Manager looking to join one of the top companies in the Transportation Manufacturing industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience with Event management, press releases, and working with local event?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work remotely with our client in Phoenix, AZ. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Drive awareness of the customer's reputation in the west and central regions.
• Deploy and implement the US communication plan, messaging platforms and project action plans.
• Tailor communication plan and messages for the geographic area in line with US and Americas messaging and communication plan.
• Organizes site visits inside your geographic region.
• Identifies and managers regional exhibitions and conference participation.
• Manage local media relations (relationship and primary contact to local journalists, preparation of press releases, local press events, media briefing, Q&A*) and local crisis communications in coordination with global media relations team.
• Create social media content for your region in keeping with the US comms plan and key messaging.
• Suggest relevant accounts for the customer to follow and engage with.
• Monitor social media in your region as part of reputation management and engagement.
• Ensure customer's brand and visual identity rules are applied.
• Produce local content for print and online tools (messages, figures, Country/cluster and sites PPT presentations).
• Manage internal communication to all employees in the cluster/country using Communications standard tools and digital platforms.
• Cascade Company information.
• Escalate project milestones and overall social climate (bottom-up).
• Manage local events that feature senior Americas and global leadership in your region - including event organization, talking points and briefing doc prep and audience build for internal and external events in region.
• Provide advice and managerial guidelines to Americas Management Committee members.
• Manage your budget, follow-up & reporting in coordination with Finance and Communications Performance.
• This role is more focused on the strategy, rather than the day-to-day.
• This person will not be managing a team.
• The goal of this position is to build the brand
• The longer they are in the role, the more public affairs/stakeholder engagement they will have (a lot of political interactions)

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $57/hr.

Hours: 40 hours/week.

Length: Temp (6 months).

Sounds like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Event management, press releases, and working with local event.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with social media, canva, capcut.

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications or Marketing or Business.
• Media relations experience.
• Demonstrate team-leading capability.
• Demonstrate excellent judgement and understanding of how to navigate complexity in a matrix and multi-stakeholder environment, problem solver.
• Experience in crisis communications and issues management.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Strategic Vision.
• Good oral and written communications skills.
• Autonomy, agility, accountability, organization, operational effectiveness, ability to establish priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Objective Oriented.
• Proactiveness, adaptability.
• Analyze, synthesize, be 'political', be rigorous & precise.
• Develop simple & robust solutions (practical approach, common sense).
• Manage sensitive & confidential issues.
• Coach members of the communications function.
• Counsel management in communications issues.
• Resistance to stress, issues management and ability to work under pressure.
• Management skills.
• Collaboration/Teamwork.
• Business Sense.
• Communication with transparency and ability of convincing & influencing.
• Able to interact and communicate courteously and professionally, among all levels in and outside of the organization.
• Editorial planning.
• Creative thinking.
• Ability to simplify complex concepts.
• Resilience.
• Self-directed; highly motivated, team player.
• Creative, thoughtful, persuasive storyteller.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.