Senior Communications Specialist

Career Opportunities: Senior Communications Specialist (Bilingual) (336233)

Requisition ID336233-Posted10/20/2026

W.W. Grainger, Inc. is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America and Japan. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working®by serving more than4.6 million customersworldwide with maintenance, repair andoperating(MRO) products and value-added solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customerexpertise. Known for its commitment to service and purpose-driven culture, the Company reported2025 revenue of$17.9 billion. For more information, visit www.grainger.com.
Compensation:

The base salary for this role ranges between $ 80,080 - $ 110,110 with eligibility for an incentive target of 10% which is contingent upon achieving both individual and company performance objectives.
The pay range above is not a guarantee of compensation but reflects the potential total compensation for this role at the time of this posting based on the assigned job grade. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as geographic work location, relevant experience and individual skills. The stated range is a reasonable estimate and may change over time; final compensation may fall above or below the range provided. Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or discontinue its compensation and benefits programs at any time, in accordance with applicable law.
This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

Position Summary:

The Senior Communications Specialist (Bilingual) is responsible for developing and delivering high-quality communications in English and French across Grainger Canada. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Communications, this role provides advisory and executional support for internal and external communications, with a particular focus on translation quality and French-language compliance.

Working closely with communications partners, leaders, business stakeholders, and translation vendors, the senior specialist manages bilingual communications and translation requests, ensuring messaging is accurate, culturally appropriate, aligned with brand and language standards, and compliant with applicable French-language requirements. The role supports enterprise, people, and change communications that help team members understand key business updates, decisions, and actions.

Key Responsibilities (You Will):

• Develop, write, edit, and translate high-impact communications in English and French, including enterprise announcements, business communications, change materials, FAQs, leader messages, and other team member facing materials.
• Work closely with translation and localization vendors to triage, coordinate, and advance high volumes of translation submissions through established workflows, while improving efficiency, consistency, scalability, and turnaround time.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor to leaders, communications partners, and stakeholders on bilingual communications, translation practices, localization, language risk, messaging, channels, timing, and content readiness.
• Adapt and localize communications to ensure they are clear, relevant, culturally appropriate, and aligned with Grainger Canada’s voice and communication standards.
• Coordinate and execute communications across enterprise channels, including SharePoint and Firstup, ensuring content is accurate, timely, accessible and appropriately targeted.
• Lead the translation and linguistic review of corporate, sensitive, compliance-driven, and people-impact communications, including urgent and time-sensitive requests, ensuring accuracy, consistency, appropriate tone, and alignment with established standards.
• Advise communications partners, leaders and stakeholders on translation approaches, language risk, bilingual content requirements and content readiness for distribution.
• Apply translation memory, terminology standards, established language guidelines, and quality-assurance practices to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency across bilingual communications.
• Support compliance with applicable French-language requirements, including the Charter of the French Language, by identifying, assessing, and escalating potential language, legal, reputational, accessibility or compliance risks before distribution.
• Develop and maintain scalable self-service translation resources, tools, templates, and guidance that enable business partners to effectively manage lower-risk bilingual communications.
• Review communications for consistency with Grainger Canada’s communications standards, brand voice, accessibility expectations, and employee experience objective Qs.
• Manage multiple communications priorities and deadlines, balancing urgent business needs with appropriate review, quality, and compliance req