Corporate Archivist & Chief Historian

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CINCINNATI GENERAL OFFICES

This dual-hatted role leads the preservation and activation of our company’s nearly 200-year history to best support Corporate Communications’ mission to protect and build P&G’s reputation. This leader will wear two critical hats: as the Corporate Archivist
, they are the ultimate steward of our physical and digital heritage collection; as the Chief Historian
, they are a strategic communications leader who wields our history to provide authenticity, context, and proof for the stories P&G tells. This is a role for a leader who is both the guardian of the physical past and the chief architect of its narrative.

This individual will lead a program that continues to use our historical archives not as a passive collection of materials, but as a dynamic engine for reputation management—inspiring employees, informing brand strategy, protecting intellectual property, and ensuring our past serves as a powerful catalyst and credible foundation for our future.

This role’s responsibilities are divided into three core functions:

• Archival Management: Direct all aspects of archival administration, including collection development, appraisal, processing, and preservation to ensure materials are discoverable and preserved.
• Operational Excellence: Champion best-in-class archival practices, improving workflows and leveraging emerging technologies (e.g., AI) to enhance access and discovery.
• Leadership: Oversee the archival budget, manage vendor relationships, and lead a team of archival staff and project-based contractors.

• Strategic Storytelling: Translate historical assets into powerful, relevant narratives that build and protect P&G’s corporate reputation, particularly around our pillars of innovation, brand and category leadership, citizenship, and superior performance.
• Content & Communications Partnership: Arm communicators and leaders with the historical proof points, stories, and context needed to engage effectively with media, employees, and external stakeholders.
• Heritage Center Curation: Lead the content strategy and physical curation of the P&G Heritage Center, transforming it into a primary channel for communicating P&G’s values and character to internal and external audiences.
• Proactive Activation: Identify stories from our past that can add depth and credibility to current business and communications campaigns, ensuring our history is a proactive, not reactive, tool.

• Indispensable Partner: Serve as a strategic partner to both the broader Corporate Communications team (Media, Employee, Executive) and key business functions including Brand, Legal, A&I, and R&D as needed.
• Expert Research: Provide rapid-response, expert research to support high-stakes needs, from reputational issue navigation (Communications), to in-depth issues‑based brand sessions (Brand), and trademark defense and patent history defense (Legal).
• Spokesperson: Serve as a credible and compelling corporate spokesperson on historical matters, representing P&G’s heritage to media, key stakeholders, and VIPs.

• Dual Expertise: A rare blend of deep archival knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of how corporate narrative and authenticity contribute to reputation management.
• Strategic Narrative Builder: The ability to craft compelling stories that advance specific communications objectives, moving beyond simple facts to create emotional resonance.
• Advanced Archival Knowledge: Mastery of archival theory, digital preservation, and descriptive standards to ensure the collection’s integrity.
• Executive Presence & Partnership: Proven ability to build trust and act as a credible, service-oriented partner to senior executives and cross-functional teams.
• Leadership & Project Management: Strong skills in managing staff, budgets, and complex, multi-year projects.
• Tech Fluency & Growth Mindset: An eagerness to creatively solve challenges and leverage new technologies (e.g., AI) to make heritage more dynamic and…