Communications & Public Affairs Manager in Melbourne, Australia

Communications & Public Affairs Manager

Location:

Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3194

In Australia, the J.R. Simplot Company’s core operations are food manufacturing and agriculture, encompassing potato, vegetable, seafood and sauce operations. We supply a wide range of frozen, shelf-stable and chilled products to Australia and New Zealand’s major retail and foodservice customers and are part of Simplot’s Global Food business. With 17 food manufacturing and processing sites, Simplot Global Food serves retail and foodservice customers in 37 countries, and employs 8,000 people across North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

In Australia, we are a leading provider of quality, nourishing and sustainable food, focussed on creating food that maximises value from the best Australian-grown produce and global seafood. Our iconic brands have been an integral part of Australian life for generations, and include Leggo’s, Birds Eye, Edgell, John West and Chiko.

Culture and Benefits

At Simplot, we are fuelled by our purpose: We Contribute to Feeding Our World. We imagine a better future and set goals to reach it. We are committed to working as one Simplot and are guided by our core values:

• Respect for Resources

• Spirit of Innovation

• Passion for People

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating an environment that promotes safety and wellbeing and where our people feel supported, respected and empowered. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all our team members.

Simplot is passionate about cultivating a future where good ideas and inspiring possibilities have the chance to grow. We want our team members to build exciting and fulfilling careers with us and offer professional and personal growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Building on existing networks and developing where required internal communications contacts throughout the Company: Ensuring contacts have the appropriate support to deliver and share communications (e.g. business change managers, human resources)

Continuous Improvement: Sharing best practice with other colleagues, particularly within change management teams and company communications and marketing teams. Developing regular feedback channels to promote cross communication within Simplot and to ensure that messages are being delivered in a consistent and timely manner. Monitoring the results of the feedback to ensure continuous improvement in communications.

Developing an understanding and awareness of the internal communication needs within the J. R. Simplot Company across all businesses, countries, and employee audiences: This will involve liaison with staff as well as planning and project teams to understand changes and potential implications/requirements for internal communications.

Implementation of an internal communications strategy. This includes writing, developing and implementing internal communication plans, advising on internal communications issues, and providing appropriate communication tools.

Delivering regular communications for all audiences through a range of channels, ensuring ease of access to communications, clarity and consistency of messages: Ensures overall consistency of company messages, and responsible for the development of relevant stories. Ability to develop and manage production of the global company intranet, ensuring it is credible, informative, well-received by employees, timely and produced to a high standard. Ghost Writing – develops relevant and timely blogs and Yammer posts for executive staff. Ensures appropriate research is conducted to build relevancy into each deliverable and works with executive staff to obtain appropriate tone for target audience

Developing knowledge and understanding of internal communication tools and techniques and how these can best be used within Simplot.

Assisting the Director of Communications in the development and delivery of an evolving internal communications strategy.

Owner of Company internal communication processes, delivering timely and effective communication plans and communications throughout the Company. This involves liaison with other team members, managers, and directors and developing and delivering a simple, coordinated process in order to provide effective, consistent communications.

Acts as a consultative partner to the businesses and functions in developing marketing and communications strategies aligned with corporate messaging.

Creation of communication plans, messages and tactics for Simplot Intranet: Continually developing Simplot Intranet as an effective internal communications tool and ensuring it meets the needs of its audiences. Developing and managing design, content and technical functions, to ensure that it is useful and integrated into overall Company objectives, and accurate and consistent with brand guidelines.

Change Management: Leads the development of change management communications plans and the implementation of those plans. Contributes as a key member of the change management team, contributing to strategy development and overall plan implementation.

Typical Education

Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Relevant Experience

5+ years related experience and/or training

Required Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism or related field

• Significant experience in communications or media relations, ideally within FMCG or related field

• Extensive experience in developing and overseeing both strategic and tactical communications across internal and external audiences within global locations

• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills including ability to adapt style to different audiences

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, high performance yet rewarding environment

• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Excellent thinking capability and a proactive approach to problem solving

• Alongside these attributes you will display an impressive track record of sustained achievement of strategic goals

If this sounds like you, then please apply online now! Applications close on Friday 25th October 2024.

Job Requisition ID: 20186

Travel Required : Less than 10%

Location(s): GF Chifley Business Park Office – Melbourne

Country : Australia

Simplot is an equal opportunity employer and encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply. If you feel you would be a great addition to our team please apply online today, we would love to hear from you. If you require technical assistance, please email us at [email protected]