Interim Communications Director

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Healthcare organisation, based in Noord-Holland Netherlands.

The Company

The company is one of the largest Dutch Multinationals with their headquarter in Amsterdam.

Role Description

Our focus as a Global Employee Communications team is to inspire, engage and empower our people to be the best they can be and by doing so, to deliver on our strategy and growth ambitions. As the Communications Director focusing on International Markets and Employee Engagement you have two key goals: 1) Be a trusted advisor and business partner to our Chief of International Markets across employee and external communications; 2) Develop and deploy a long-term global employee engagement program across business groups, markets and functions and empower our people to be Company ambassadors.

Responsibilities

- Be a trusted adviser and business partner to the Chief of International Markets across employee communications as well as external communications. The latter includes managing the social media content plan and implementation for this Executive Board Member.
- Develop and deploy a long-term global employee engagement program across business groups, markets and functions, working closely with the Business Transformation and HR functions to bring together multiple initiatives.
- Develop and pilot an employee ambassador program to support the above, which ultimately drives our reputation as a health technology leader and supports our talent acquisition strategy.

Your team
- You will report into the Global Head of Employee Communications and will be part of the Company's Brand, Communications and Digital function. The role is based in Amsterdam with occasional travel to Eindhoven.

Integrated Communications & Events
- The Integrated Communications and Events function is responsible for effectively protecting & enhancing the company reputation and brand through communications which includes corporate communications, crisis communications, PR, executive positioning, CSR and public affairs across all relevant stakeholder audiences.

Requirements

Degree-level education, with at least 10 years of experience in communications in an international matrixed / business environment
• Experience of developing and deploying employee engagement programs, working with agencies and within a network organization
• Experience of managing executive communications (internal and external) and the ability to create content (e.g. long & short form blogposts)
• Excellent English language writing skills and communication experience in an English-speaking business environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills: engaging, aligning and managing expectations. You are a confident and fact-based advisor to senior management
• Complete comfort in and affinity with today’s fast-moving, complex (digital) media environment
• You are a trustworthy and dependable team player focused on delivering high-quality work

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Frank Geerlofs.