Senior Director of Communications

Overview

In this role, you shape and own the EMEA communications strategy and regional reputation, advising executive leadership on reputation, risk, transformation, and market-sensitive issues. You guide narrative development across corporate, product, financial, internal, executive, and digital channels, balancing global strategy with local realities. You lead high-visibility moments such as acquisitions, market entries, crises, and leadership transitions, while supervising governance, budget, and cross-market programs. You will influence enterprise planning with regional insight and develop leadership capability across the EMEA portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Own the EMEA communications strategy, priorities, governance, and resource allocation in partnership with the C-suite and regional leadership
• Advise executive leadership on reputation, risk, transformation, and geopolitical developments; challenge assumptions and guide decisions
• Own EMEA reputation through an integrated strategy spanning corporate, product, financial, internal, executive, and digital communications
• Translate global strategy into locally credible narratives, considering market, language, cultural, and regulatory realities
• Set communications strategy and narrative for major organizational change, acquisitions, market entries, crises, and leadership transitions
• Define regional media and thought-leadership agenda; approve story platforms and stakeholder engagement priorities
• Manage regional crisis posture and serve as escalation point during high-impact incidents; coordinate with Legal, HR, and business leaders
• Direct regional operating model including agency strategy, budget, measurement, governance, and resource trade-offs
• Develop communications leadership through coaching, talent planning, succession, and role design across EMEA
• Establish outcome frameworks linking communications to business priorities to guide investments and prioritization
• Represent EMEA in global communications planning and ensure regional insight informs enterprise decisions

Key requirements

• 12+ years in corporate, agency, public affairs, or executive communications
• Proven experience advising senior executives and leading communications through major business changes
• Strong judgment in ambiguous or politically sensitive situations with executive-level decision-making credibility
• Ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization and manage directors, agencies, and multi-market programs
• Exceptional writing, narrative development, media, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience working across markets; fluency in French or German

• strategic judgment
• stakeholder management
• influence and collaboration
• crisis communications
• narrative development
• media relations

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