[Hiring] Vice President, Corporate Communications @Circana

Role Description

The Vice President of Corporate Communications will lead the planning and execution of enterprise communications programs that help employees and stakeholders understand, engage with, and act on Circana’s most important business priorities. Reporting to and partnering closely with the Chief Communications Officer, this leader will translate M&A, HR, organizational change, and global initiatives into coordinated communication strategies, stakeholder playbooks, leader materials, and measurable engagement plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Strategy & Change Communications:
  • Lead communications planning and execution for M&A integration, HR initiatives, organizational changes, operating model updates, and global enterprise programs, ensuring leaders and employees receive clear, timely, and actionable information.
  • Build the workplans, stakeholder maps, message architectures, editorial calendars, approval processes, and measurement approaches needed to execute consistently across regions and functions.
  • Manage the strategic partnership between Corporate Communications and HR, serving as the primary point of alignment on talent, culture, org-design, and employee-experience initiatives to ensure integrated planning and consistent messaging.
• Leadership Engagement:
  • Lead communications support for events, leadership visits, town halls, and engagement programs, ensuring clear sequencing and consistent enterprise messaging.
  • Write speeches, video scripts, discussion guides, and talking points for senior leaders, translating business priorities into clear, audience-ready messages.
• Reputation, Issues & Governance:
  • Partner with senior communications leaders to ensure internal, leadership, and stakeholder communications are aligned with Circana’s corporate narrative, reputation priorities, and business strategy.
  • Support M&A and Legal workstreams by partnering with Legal to develop disciplined stakeholder communications for litigation-related, regulatory, and disclosure-sensitive matters, ensuring materials are aligned, appropriately reviewed, and managed with discretion.
  • Serve as a trusted communications partner to HR, M&A, regional, and business stakeholders, providing counsel on message strategy, employee impact, timing, risks, and execution.
  • Maintain communications governance, standards, and best practices that reinforce execution discipline and clear decision-making across complex initiatives.
  • Use employee insights, channel analytics, feedback loops, and post-initiative retrospectives to evaluate communications effectiveness and continuously improve clarity, engagement, and adoption.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategic corporate communications, ideally within fast-paced, highly regulated industries such as information services, financial services, or technology.
• Proven success leading multi-stakeholder communications for mergers, acquisitions, or organizational transformations.
• Experience coordinating with external communications, including PR, legal, HR, M&A, strategy, and leadership.
• Experience supporting Legal-driven and issues-management workstreams, including litigation, regulatory, disclosure-sensitive, response protocol, and employee-facing stakeholder communications.
• Strong writing and storytelling skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear, concise messaging.
• Demonstrated ability to work under tight timeframes, manage through ambiguity, and influence across functions and levels.
• Executive presence and discretion.
• Demonstrated background supporting senior leadership communications, including executive messaging, leader visibility, and speechwriting programs.
• Sound judgment on communications matters, with the conviction to advise employees at all levels, from entry-level to C-suite, while building productive colleague relationships.
• Experience working across global teams and regions.
• Experience using data, feedback, and employee insights to measure and improve results.
• Strong project management skills.
• Highly conscientious, with strong attention to detail.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, business, or related field (MBA or relevant graduate degree a plus).

Requirements

• Circana Behaviors:
• Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.
• Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.
• Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.
• Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers.
• Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.
• Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.
• Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• Salary range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000 USD, with eligibility for bonus pay.