Director of Communications

Description

• Brand & Messaging Alignment: Maintain a unified employee brand identity and messaging hierarchy. Ensure all communications reflect the company’s culture, vision, and values.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with marketing and other departments to ensure alignment and consistency in messaging.
• Strategic Communications: Develop and execute comprehensive communication strategies that support business goals, manage media relations, and ensure brand consistency across all channels.
• Media Relations: Organize and manage media interviews, prepare spokespersons, and serve as company spokesperson when needed.
• Digital & Social Media: Execute campaigns across digital platforms including intranet, email, digital signage, video, and social media.
• Group Corporate Communications Support: Manage and coordinate content and assets that align with group corporate communications initiatives.
• Team Leadership: Oversee the communications function, including budgeting, staffing, and performance management.
• Crisis & Change Management: Develop and maintain a crisis communications plan. Deliver clear, timely messaging on change initiatives, leadership updates, and business developments.
• Employee Engagement: Develop and lead inclusive communication efforts that foster collaboration and connection—covering company news, team highlights, HR updates, community outreach, and talent development.
• Performance Metrics: Establish and track communication KPIs to measure effectiveness and business impact.
• Executive & Leadership Support: Craft compelling communications for senior leaders, including announcements, speeches, video scripts, and presentations. Provide strategic counsel on major initiatives such as M&A, organizational changes, and business milestones.

Requirements

The Director of Communications leads all internal and external corporate communications initiatives for Americas Building Products. In this role, the Director will leverage her/his expertise to develop and implement a communications strategy that encompasses two integral platforms within ABP – infrastructure products and outdoor living. This role is critical to shaping our brand voice, engaging employees, and supporting executive leadership with high-impact messaging. The candidate should be a keen strategist and skilled tactician with expertise in organizational communications, employee engagement, change management communications, executive/management level communications, media relations, and thought leadership. The Director will execute the communications strategy with a small, experienced team and partner with all levels within the organization to achieve maximum results.

• Excellent writing skills
• Proven experience providing strategic counsel and guidance to executive leadership team members
• 15+ years’ experience in a strategic management/communications-related role
• Travel: Approximately 25%
• Solid judgment / temperament in dealing with confidential and sensitive information and issues
• Demonstrated success developing and implementing impactful internal and external communications programs
• 5+ years management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, or related field required

Benefits

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

• Health and wellness programs
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Highly competitive base pay

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance