Manager, Corporate Communications

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Manager, Corporate Communications

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

At IDEX, our businesses manufacture mission-critical technologies used in everyday life – from helping firefighters and rescue teams save lives, to advancing scientific research, to supporting some of the world's most innovative industrial applications.

With more than 50 businesses around the world, our operating structure is purposefully designed to offer the stability of a large corporation, while enabling our businesses to be agile and entrepreneurial, and our teams to retain their passion, energy and autonomy. We believe great communication plays a critical role in connecting employees to our purpose, strategy and culture.

Why Join IDEX?

This role offers the opportunity to shape communications for a high-growth, global, publicly traded company. You'll work closely with leaders, gain exposure to diverse businesses and industries, and deliver communication that connects employees to our purpose while advancing the company's strategic priorities.

Position Summary

The Manager, Corporate Communications, is a high-visibility role responsible for designing and executing communication plans and channels across the company while maintaining close partnerships with corporate partners in HR, IT, Finance and Legal. The role will support both enterprise communication initiatives and functional priorities that impact the overall company. This ideal candidate will need strong attention to detail, writing skills and project management abilities.

This individual must possess curiosity to learn the business, problem solving skills and experience working with a wide array of stakeholders, internal and external.

IDEX communications team operates in a lean, collaborative environment. This position offers significant exposure to senior leaders and opportunities to make an immediate impact. Ideal candidates should have experience prioritizing the most critical enterprise-level work, while providing standard tools and guideposts that can be leveraged for local or business-specific needs.

The position is hybrid, with remote working on Mondays and Fridays and office working Tuesday through Thursday at IDEX’s corporate headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois, to foster better collaboration, connection, and innovation. This position will require occasional travel to IDEX business units.

Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise communication channels including company intranet, town halls, email platforms, social media, company website and newsroom.
• Analyze ongoing metrics for all communication channels and campaigns, highlighting insights and opportunities to improve.
• Explore new communication channels that support IDEX communication strategy
• Leverage emerging communication technologies, including AI-enabled tools, to improve content development, efficiency and audience reach while maintaining high standards of quality and accuracy.
• Curate and facilitate content sharing across businesses and teams, ensuring milestones and wins are widely known and celebrated across the company.
• Design and execute communication plans supporting enterprise initiatives, including M&A, sustainability, transformation and culture changes.
• Serve as an expert in communications across the enterprise, implementing best practices and designing self-serve solutions that improve communication across the company.
• Partner with business units and corporate functions to translate complex business topics into clear, compelling communications for internal and external stakeholders (e.g., earnings communications, narratives for annual reports and investor presentations, and content for town halls and other employee-facing communications (e.g., intranet).
• Support executive and leadership communications, including presentations, talking points, videos, speeches and employee messages.
• Coordinate enterprise-wide announcements with careful attention to timing, audience needs and organizational priorities.
• Support planning and execution of global town halls, employee broadcasts, leadership meetings and other major communication events.
• Help strengthen employee engagement by promoting company values, culture, community involvement, sustainability efforts and business performance through meaningful storytelling.
• Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, Business or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, marketing communications or a related discipline.
• Excellent writing, editing and storytelling skills with demonstrated ability to adapt content for different audiences and channels, both internal and external.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and influence across a global, matrixed organization.
• Excellent organizational, project management and analytical skills with strong attention to detail. Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Sound judgment and demonstrated ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Preferred
• Experience creating digital, multimedia and video content. Familiarity with Microsoft 365 tools, including SharePoint, Teams and Viva Engage.
• Experience using communication measurement and analytics tools.
• Basic graphic design, presentation development and visual storytelling skills.
• Experience using AI-enabled productivity and content development tools.
• Experience supporting executive communications and employee engagement initiatives.

What Will Help You Succeed

You are naturally curious and enjoy learning about people, technologies and businesses.

You are a proactive self-starter who looks for opportunities to improve communications and generate fresh ideas in an environment where change can be decided and implemented quickly.

You balance creativity with attention to detail.

You are comfortable collaborating with leaders at all levels of the organization.

You understand that great communication starts with listening.

You embrace continuous learning and view improvement as a lifelong journey.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?