Sr. Communications Specialist - Honeywell

Honeywell Aerospace Technologies is seeking a Senior Specialist, Communications, reporting to the Senior Director, Aerospace Communications, based in Phoenix. This is an exciting opportunity for a communications professional to dig into their bag of tricks to help us best reach our 24,000 global employees to tell the story of our technology and our people.

This individual will also play a part in developing and executing global internal communication strategies to drive employee engagement and alignment with the company's direction. In addition, this person will be counted upon to partner with executives in the Aerospace Leadership Team (ALT) to develop content (written and electronic) and execute town halls and senior leadership meetings.


This role must demonstrate leadership in modernizing Honeywell's employee communications programs, measuring effectiveness and communicating broad HR initiatives – as this role will serve as the primary support to the HR VP. In addition, this individual will support the execution of community relations initiatives and programs.


The ideal candidate can communicate effectively with a variety of groups and individuals. The candidate must have an extraordinary ability to work well with people at all levels, especially senior leaders, and demonstrate cultural competence, working with business leaders and Communications leaders in multiple regions. The individual must have the highest level personal integrity and a commitment to inclusion and diversity. The individual should be comfortable working in gray areas and be able to effectively handle pressures and demands from multiple clients and competing priorities.


Key Responsibilities




+ Serve as a communications consultant for Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and some regional communications which include defining, coordinating, and supporting the execution of a communications strategy through multiple channels. These channels may include, but are not limited to, executive messages, town hall meetings, project-specific communications


+ While working with the content team, this person will learn and determine the most effective strategy and tactic to convey messaging and engage the target audience.


+ Other responsibilities to include:

Coordinates with vendors as needed to produce corporate communications as assigned.


+ Solicits, creates and reviews content for other communication channels, such as video monitors, company videos, intranet, etc.


+ Responsible for working with internal business partners to develop content strategies, standards and communication templates.


+ Writes messages, video scripts, articles and speeches and develops visual material for a variety of internal audiences on business topics or industry news.


+ Develop and deploy extensive strategic, executive, organizational and change management communications, including


+ Aero-wide transitions and operational effectiveness communications.


+ Support the Sr. Director of Aerospace communications in developing holistic strategy and communications plans across


+ Aerospace that meet business objectives and priorities (Aero-Communications strategy and plan)


+ Develop and drive communications strategies for key Aerospace communications priorities, including manager-specific communications, employee recognition and retention.



U.S. PERSON REQUIREMENTS


Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status.


YOU MUST HAVE



+ Video shooting and editing skills – or the willingness to learn


+ Well-developed storytelling skills and grammatical writing skills, with ability to quickly develop clear, concise messages.



WE VALUE




+ 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 the job done effectively.


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


+ Past exposure to and experience with the execution of Community Relations programs in a corporate setting.


+ Understand nuances, comfortable working in gray areas all with the highest personal integrity.


+ Extraordinary ability to work well with people at all levels, especially senior leaders.


+ Effectively handles 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.