Sr. Internal Communications Director

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a global nutrition company with a clear purpose: to deliver better nutrition. We believe in the power of nutrition to unlock human potential.

As a protein powerhouse, our leading brands and ingredients support consumers in achieving their health, fitness, and lifestyle goals every day. Headquartered in Ireland, Glanbia operates in over 120 countries, with 27+ manufacturing sites across the US, UK, Germany, and China, and 20 innovation and collaboration centres worldwide.

We operate at the heart of high-growth nutrition categories, aligned to powerful global consumer megatrends. Our leadership positions include:

• #1 Global Sports Nutrition Brand, with a growing lifestyle nutrition presence
• #2 Premix Solutions provider with leading natural and organic flavour capabilities
• #1 American-style cheddar cheese producer in the U.S., with leading whey protein solutions

The Senior Director, Internal Communications will play a critical leadership role in shaping how Glanbia connects with its global workforce.

You will co-create and deliver an engaging, inspiring, and results-driven internal communications strategy that enables business performance, accelerates transformation, and strengthens Glanbia’s position as an employer of choice.

This is a highly influential role requiring strong business acumen, executive presence, and the ability to partner credibly with senior leaders across a complex, global organisation. You will be passionate about Glanbia’s purpose and values and will build a high-performing internal communications function that drives clarity, alignment, and engagement at scale.

• Shape and steward Glanbia’s internal narrative, translating business strategy into clear, compelling, employee-relevant communications that drive understanding, engagement, and action.
• Develop and lead an enterprise-wide internal communications strategy aligned to business priorities, employee experience goals, and transformation agendas.
• Establish governance and coordination across HR, business units, and functional teams to ensure consistent messaging, prioritisation, and alignment across all employee communications.
• Design and maintain integrated communication calendars, channel frameworks, and toolkits to ensure consistency, reduce duplication, and optimise impact.
• Own the enterprise internal channel ecosystem (e.g., Our Glanbia, Viva Engage, town halls, video, digital signage), ensuring accessibility and effectiveness across global employee populations.
• Enable scalable storytelling through consistent frameworks, templates, and approaches that elevate quality and impact globally.
• Lead communications strategy for major enterprise initiatives including culture, transformation, change adoption, DE&I, performance cycles, and engagement programmes.
• Measure and evaluate communications effectiveness using engagement analytics, sentiment insights, and channel performance data; continuously refine strategy based on insight.
• Develop dashboards linking communications activity to engagement, adoption, and business outcomes where possible.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to enhance content creation, audience segmentation, insight generation, and measurement capability.

• Significant experience in internal communications, employee engagement, and/or organisational change communications, with proven ability to engage and influence senior leadership teams.
• Experience operating in large, complex, global organisations with a track record of delivering measurable impact.
• Strong expertise in internal communications channels and platforms (e.g., intranet, Teams/Viva Engage, newsletters, video, town halls, digital platforms).
• Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams.
• Experience in a communications agency environment is highly desirable.
• Degree in Communications, Business, Organisational Psychology/Development or related field is an advantage.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with hands‑on execution capability and a passion for employee experience.

This role is based in Chicago, Illinois
, or Dublin, Ireland with hybrid working…