Director, Corporate Communications North America

Corporate Communications Director, North America

**Introduction**:
This role is responsible for building awareness and understanding of Avanade’s market-leading skills and positioning across the Microsoft ecosystem internally and externally, with key media and industry analysts, and through social media, across the North America (NA) geographic area.

**Come join us**:
Avanade’s North America Corporate Communications Director is a key role within Avanade’s corporate communications function and is responsible for the coordinated planning, management and execution of Avanade’s external communications, internal communications and social media activities across the Area, and managing NA analyst relations activities. The role reports to the Corporate Communications and Brand Executive and works closely with the NA Marketing Lead and Global Corporate Communications team to ensure NA corporate communications activities are aligned and integrated with Area and global business priorities to maximize impact and engagement with key internal and external audiences, including Accenture and Microsoft.

The role will be also be responsible for managing the NA internal communications lead and the NA social media lead as well as the NA Public Relations agency network.

**What you’ll do**:

- Plan, manage and execute integrated communications activities across NA in alignment with global strategy and CCB Executive and NA Marketing Lead
- Provide corporate communication counsel to NA leadership and manage key stakeholders across NA Business and Marketing
- Manage NA PR agencies and track and report progress against KPIs
- Manage and develop NA internal and social media leads as Career Advisor
- Develop and implement NA AR strategy and manage local leadership and SME analyst engagement in coordination with global AR program
- Lead on NA crisis communications in collaboration with global crisis communications lead
- Build strong relationships with Accenture and Microsoft NA external communications and AR teams for joint initiatives

**Skills and experiences**:

- Strong experience of independently conceptualizing, building and executing end-to-end public relations campaigns (including social media and internal comms) that align with business objectives, can integrate with other marketing programs, and produce significant results
- Proven, demonstrable experience in work in a fast-paced environment with a think-on-your-feet attitude and the ability to juggle multiple priorities at the same time
- Demonstrable experience of managing C-suite stakeholders in challenging situations
- Excellent writing skills, including customizing messages for different audiences and channels

**About you**:
**Characteristics that can spell success for this role**:

- You likely possess a Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, branding, social media, public relations or related discipline
- You are a strategic thinker and exceptional executor
- You enjoy working and leading in ambiguous situations
- You have excellent and disciplined project management and process improvement capabilities

**Enjoy your career**:

- Some of the best things about working at Avanade:

- Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
- Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
- Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
- Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

**A great place to work**:
As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on
- Expanding your thinking - Experimenting courageously - Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by
- Empowering every voice - Encouraging boldness - Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by
- Amazing the client - Prioritizing what matters - Acting as one

Learn more
Marketing is part of our Corporate Functions team. To learn more, check out these videos:

- [3] Avanade Do What Matters
- [4] Avanade - Making a Genuine Human Impact

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