Communication Manager Southern Europe

**Key Responsibilities**
- Strategic Communication Leadership: Develop and execute comprehensive communication strategies tailored specifically to the Southern European market. Ensure these strategies align seamlessly with Agilent’s Enterprise strategy, leveraging in-depth insights to drive impactful communication campaigns.
- Key Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate and maintain relationships with both internal stakeholders, such as the Country General Manager (CGM), senior business leaders, and cross-functional teams. Be a trusted adviser to these stakeholders by understanding their needs and expectations to deliver targeted communication that builds trust and mutual understanding.
- Communication Program Design and Delivery: Conceptualize, develop, and execute high-impact communication programs at the country level. This includes organizing engaging initiatives like regular coffee talks to foster internal dialogue, producing visually appealing and content-rich local newsletters, and implementing innovative communication campaigns that meet global quality standards while resonating with the local audience.
- Enterprise-Level Content Development: Create compelling, high-quality communication materials that effectively showcase Agilent’s achievements in the Southern European market. This encompasses crafting detailed country profiles and documenting inspiring success stories for publication on global platforms, ensuring consistent brand messaging across all channels.
- Support CGM and Country-Level Initiatives: Provide strategic support to the Country General Managers (CGMs) in the region, developing persuasive executive messaging for coffee talks, internal meetings, and external engagements to enhance employee engagement and company image. Assist in planning and executing major country-level events, including CEO visits, and CSR projects, ensuring effective communication at every stage.
- Social-Media Management: Elevate Agilent’s presence in the region on professional social media platforms such as LinkedIn, transforming it into a leading voice within the industry. Develop and implement a social media strategy that drives follower growth, engagement, and image strengthening.
- Cross-Regional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with global and regional communication teams, sharing best practices, insights, and resources. Work in tandem to develop and execute coordinated communication strategies, ensuring seamless collaboration across regions and contributing to the success of global teamwork initiatives.

**Qualifications**:

- ** Communication Skills**: Exceptional writing skills, with the ability to craft clear, concise, and persuasive executive messaging, as well as engaging public content. Strong verbal communication skills, enabling confident and effective presentations to large audiences and high-level executive interactions. In addition to fluent English, proficiency in one of the major languages in Southern Europe (French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish) is required, with excellent written and verbal expression skills to communicate precisely with different audiences.
- ** Cross-cultural Communication Capability**: Demonstrated capability to build and maintain strong relationships across diverse cultural and business backgrounds. Experience in aligning communication strategies with business objectives in multicultural environments. Be able to adjust communication strategies flexibly to adapt to different cultural environments and effectively avoid cultural conflicts.
- ** Mindset and Attributes**:A growth mindset, characterized by a passion for innovation, quick learning, and adaptability. Resilience in fast-paced, dynamic environments, with the ability to quickly learn new concepts, proactively solve problems, and drive projects to completion independently. Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
- ** Technical Proficiency**:Proficient in social media platforms, digital communication tools, and analytics. Experience with AI tools for content creation or data analysis is a significant advantage.
- ** Global and Local Acumen**:Experience in managing time zone differences and cultural nuances, with a global mindset that effectively balances corporate standards with local market requirements.

**We Offer**:

- **Motivated Teams**: Collaborate with highly motivated teams and take on exciting responsibilities.
- ** Challenging Projects**:Engage in dynamic, collaborative projects.
- Development Opportunities: Benefit from diverse opportunities for professional growth.
- ** Corporate Culture**: Be part of an exceptional corporate culture.
- ** Work-Life Balance**: Enjoy a good work-life balance.
- ** Competitive Compensation and Benefits**:Receive a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- ** Permanent Contract**:Secure a permanent contract with a fast-growing global company.

**Additional Details**

This job has a full time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely.

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