Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Working with the Corporate Communications Director, the Corporate Communications Manager is responsible for building the company’s brand and protecting its reputation in the North American market (U.S.). The role is responsible for developing relationships with the trade media and other targeted outlets; preparing senior leaders and other designated spokespeople to represent Arcadis in the media; supporting the rollout of marketing campaigns and thought leadership content; and working cross-functionally to help ensure consistent messaging across channels.

This role can be performed in North America – Preferred Locations; Houston, Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, and New York.

Role accountabilities:

• Co-lead in developing the overall strategic direction of Arcadis’ North American external communications strategy.
• Act as a central contact for journalist inquiries, liaising with colleagues to provide information and coordinating interviews to deliver an appropriate response. Serve as an ambassador for the Arcadis brand in North America.
• Write and issue press releases, pitch stories, respond to inquiries, place spokespeople, write op-eds or by-lined articles, etc.
• Help maintain media relations and crisis communications plans that align with Arcadis’ North American and global crisis and emergency management strategies.
• Oversee day-to-day relationships with journalists at trade and mainstream media outlets, helping ensure Arcadis is the go-to resource for key themes and topics.
• Proactively identify issues on which Arcadis can comment, coordinating responses with the firm’s leading experts and ensuring desired coverage is achieved.
• Advise and coach designated spokespeople to ensure they’re prepared to deal with the media and effectively present Arcadis’ views. Provide strategic communications counsel to senior leadership in the event of crises, including writing or approving releases, statements, talking points, etc., and preparing and/or overseeing the implementation of specific reputation management plans.
• Actively participate in global communities of practice.
• Support global Corporate Communications and Investor Relations with stories for quarterly and annual reports, shareholder, and analyst meetings, etc. Support the development and promotion of thought leadership and brand-building campaigns, developing plans to promote campaigns with key audiences.
• Manage external suppliers such as PR agencies, monitoring agencies, and subscription services. Forge strong working relationships with other MarComms community members, internal stakeholders, vendors, and consultants.
• Write a full range of other content (project case studies, video storyboards, blogs, social media posts, etc.) for use across external channels.
• Review, edit, proofread, and/or approve content written by others.
• Evaluate and recommend improvements to systems, processes, and tools to enhance the performance of both the MarComms team and Arcadis.
• Oversee content pipeline and allocation of workload across the team.
• Find new, creative ways to position Arcadis in the market.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, marketing, or related field.
• 8+ years of communications experience. Continued professional and personal development in marketing, communications, or related fields such as change management.
• Willing to travel within the U.S. and Canada, as needed.
• Relevant public relations/communications experience in-house or at an agency.
• Strong contacts across U.S. and Canadian national and trade media.
• Development and implementation of communications plans.
• Solid media relations and/or crisis communications experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience promoting and pitching thought leadership content.
• Strong writing and storytelling skills.
• Demonstrated ability to understand, simplify and translate complex technical and scientific subject matter for the general public.
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels.
• Strong stakeholder, project, and time management skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
• Comfortable working in a matrixed organization.

Recruitment agencies need not respond. Details from this vacancy are not to be used for marketing purposes.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full-time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional benefits including well-being benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on the start date, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $82400 - 142140 / year .

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