Communications Leader

Job Title All Employee Communications Leader Job Description

In this role you will evolve all-employee communications into an employee experience: turning our enterprise priorities into clear stories, enabling leaders to create dialogue, and helping every colleague understand the part they play here  role is based in Amsterdam.

Please note: Along with your application, it is mandatory to submit a cover letter detailing how this role aligns with your career aspirations and how it supports your future professional growth.

• Set and deliver the global all-employee communications strategy and annual plan, aligned to Philips’ enterprise priorities, business performance, culture and growth agenda.
• Create a distinctive, human and inclusive employee narrative that makes strategy and change meaningful across diverse roles, markets, languages, cultures and access needs.
• Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of the company’s largest employee moments and campaigns, including enterprise-wide priorities, major change and engagement campaigns.
• Be an exceptional writer and editor, setting the standard for clear, compelling and audience-led communication across leader messaging, enterprise narratives, campaigns and sensitive communications.
• Be a trusted senior adviser to senior functional and business leaders, helping them communicate with clarity, authenticity and impact.
• Lead, coach and develop the All-Employee Communications team creating clear priorities, high standards, strong talent and a culture of ownership, curiosity and constructive challenge.
• Own the editorial and campaign ecosystem: establish the right mix of leader-led, digital, live and local communication to reach and engage colleagues wherever they work.
• Build a scalable “global with local relevance” model: provide governance, toolkits, content libraries and enablement that give site and regional leaders the confidence to deliver consistent, relevant communications without unnecessary central dependency.
• Own Philips’ employee audience strategy, building a deep understanding of the needs, realities and communication preferences of our diverse colleague population. Use employee insight, segmentation, listening and channel data to shape communication priorities, narratives and experiences that are relevant, inclusive and effective for different audiences.
• Translate insight into action: use data and feedback to move beyond communication outputs to demonstrable understanding, engagement and behaviour change, continuously improving content, channels, campaigns and investment decisions.
• Champion the responsible use of AI and emerging communication technology to build a more scalable, self-service communications model. Enable teams, leaders, sites and regions with smarter tools, content libraries, guidance and workflows that improve creativity, relevance, speed and consistency - while preserving editorial judgement, trust and human connection.
• Drive disciplined program and project management across a complex portfolio, defining objectives, governance, milestones, risks, resourcing and outcomes; manage external partners and budgets where needed.
• Work in close partnership with the wider Communications and Brand teams, including our content and channels, Business Partners and Regional Communications teams to support the creation of one coherent employee communications experience and clear decision rights.

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business or a related field, with typically 10+ years’ relevant global communications experience, including senior internal or employee communications leadership.
• You are an exceptional writer and editor with a high bar for clarity,…