Communications Director - Honeywell

Director of Communications


The future is what you make it!


When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who make the things that make the future. That means changing the way we fly, fueling jets in an eco-friendly way, keeping buildings safe and even making it possible to breathe on Mars.

Working at Honeywell isn’t just about developing cool things. That’s why our employees enjoy access to dynamic career opportunities across different fields and industries.

Are you ready to help us make the future?


Honeywell is seeking a Director, Communications, reporting to the Vice President, Executive and Internal Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is an extraordinary opportunity for an experienced, poised, and savvy communications professional who wants to support a growth-oriented leader and help shape the future.


This leader will deliver strategic internal communications counsel and support to the Executive Office. The work involves a significant amount of writing – requiring a high level of business acumen and deep experience in crafting effective messaging for top leadership in complex organizations. They must demonstrate an understanding of the business environment, a deep curiosity for learning the business, excitement about employee engagement, and a passion for humanizing executive leadership.


This work involves leading a team that oversees the support of the Executive Office. The work involves strategic planning to support key CEO employee priorities, with a deep focus on delivering robust, sound communications plans and messaging, preparing the Executive Office for key presentations and speaking opportunities, including Global Town Meeting, Manager Meetup, Ask Me Anything sessions, Employee Network events, executive-level incentive communications, board remarks, community engagement remarks, LinkedIn content, and more.


Deep experience in message development and storytelling experience and prowess is a must as this individual will help guide efforts to consistently develop creative, compelling, and human-focused content that connects Honeywell employees with each other, leaders, and the company’s strategic initiatives. Fluency in and passion for analytics is also imperative as we seek to measure and interpret data that help us enhance our communication practices across the company.


The ideal candidate will be a confident, independent communications professional with a minimum of 15 years of experience, preferably from a corporate background and with proven track record of driving executive communications success. This individual should have outstanding executive presence and a keen interest in understanding a business, a strong orientation toward process and organization, and the ability to influence partners and clients in a highly matrixed corporate environment. Outstanding written and verbal communication are required, as is Associated Press Style.


Ours is a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and accountable culture. If you are highly productive working on tight deadlines and complex challenges and can ably manage demands and pressure from multiple clients and competing priorities, you will likely thrive here. At Honeywell, The Future Is What We Make It.


Key Responsibilities:

Lead message development and communications strategy, counsel, and delivery for the Executive Office to strengthen employee engagement and Honeywell’s positioning as a company focused on growth.

Drive the quality of communications by guiding content strategies that result in elegantly simple, visually compelling, and easily understandable communications.

Contribute to editorial planning/development in support of Honeywell’s drive for growth.

Support the execution of the annual Senior Leadership Meeting, quarterly Global Town Meetings, and functional town halls.

Lead a team that pulls the Executive Office Communications team into a strategic function.

Support cross-company measurement of communications effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.


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YOU MUST HAVE:

A bachelor's degree.

Minimum 15+ years of demonstrated successful experience in internal or external communications in a corporate environment.


WE VALUE:

Expert-level messaging and storytelling ability and writing skills, with ability to quickly develop clear, concise messages.

The ability to think strategically and provide communications counsel to senior leadership and lead the development of communication strategies and plans to drive results.

Excellent and ruthless editing skills. A willingness to be hands-on with writing and editing to get content produced efficiently and on deadline.

A passion for Inclusion & Diversity, one of Honeywell’s core principles.

A willingness to challenge the status quo, think creatively and take intelligent risks in raising the quality of communications across Honeywell.

Intimate understanding of social media, especially LinkedIn, and an advanced understanding of how best to leverage channels such as Yammer to promote employee engagement.

An extraordinary ability to work productively with executives, clients, and partners at all levels.

The ability to handle pressures and demands from multiple clients and competing priorities.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.