Sargent & Lundy - Warrenville, IL
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Senior
Warrenville, IL
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The External Communications Specialist at Sargent & Lundy plays a vital role in executing the company's external communications strategies to enhance brand reputation and engage audiences effectively. This position involves creating informative content across various external channels, requiring creativity, strong writing skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. The role also necessitates interaction with senior leadership, making excellent communication skills essential.
Responsibilities
- Develop effective external communications for website, social media, marketing, and trade media initiatives that align with business objectives.
- Provide advanced writing and editing support with an emphasis on AP Style.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure messaging is current, accurate, and consistent with core values and brand strategy.
- Create graphics and visuals to support content.
- Manage images and other digital assets for external corporate communications initiatives.
- Provide ongoing creative and technical support for external channels to enhance user experience.
- Leverage analytics and reports to determine effectiveness and seek continual improvements of communication initiatives.
- Support crisis communications planning and response activities.
- Stay up to date on external communications tools, strategies, and best practices.
- Support the corporate communications team with other tasks as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, English, or similar.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in a similar role in a corporate environment or agency setting.
- Excellent technical, business, editing, and creative writing skills.
- Experience in website content development.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects with varying deadlines and priorities under pressure.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Confident social skills and ability to interact with all levels of management and vendor partners.
- Strong time management and organizational skills with keen attention to detail.
- Resourceful problem solver with a solution-based approach to customer service.
- Basic creative design experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in photo editing software.
- Familiarity with GA 4 (Google Analytics).
- Experience with WordPress and LinkedIn.
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Health savings account
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
- Vision insurance
- Employee discount
- Bereavement leave
- Referral program
