Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in liberal arts, journalism, or communications.
• 7+ years of experience in communications either in a PR agency, journalism environment, marketing, or in-house corporate communications department.
• 5+ years of previous management experience.

Job Summary

Oversee all forms of internal communications and corporate affairs, including internal events, public relations, and community affairs, ensuring a cohesive and strategic approach to enhance the organization's image and engagement with both internal and external stakeholders.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

• Provides strategic communications counsel to executive leadership team, business presidents, and functional leadership.
• Develops a strategic and proactive communications initiative that defines and oversees all company messaging, ensuring the cultivation of a consistent and positive corporate image while maintaining alignment with the messaging of our parent company.
• Recommends, develops, and implements an integrated employee communication strategy, with emphasis on the support of change and integration initiatives
• Builds a better understanding of the company's direction, strategy and vision.
• Serves as a champion for change management and organizational effectiveness, engaging with human resources, leadership, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), business presidents, functional leadership, associates, media, and the public at large, integrating a strategic public relations component into the communication strategy.
• Owns the strategy and execution of Community Affairs function, working hand in hand with public relations efforts to promote a positive brand image for the organization to the broader public.
• Orchestrates and oversees corporate events to strategically enhance the company's image, fostering positive engagement and driving company culture with internal and external stakeholders.
• Guides staffing decisions to foster team growth and development, actively identifying talent and implementing effective recruitment strategies, while managing and forecasting the department budget.

Nature and Scope

• Problems are typically defined by higher level leadership. Problems are difficult. Solutions require analysis and investigation.
• Decides how to achieve planned results within an organization's plans, policies, and guidelines. May set or change plans/goals within respective department or area.
• May manage department via multiple layers of managers OR directly supervise a staff of professional individual contributors at the senior or technical advisor level.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Education and Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 9+ years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management/supervisory capacity.

Our Goals for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate. We value the diversity of our people.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.