Communications Coordinator

Job Location:

Head Offices Dallas - Dallas, TX 75202, Looking to start an exciting new career? City Electric Supply offers excellent career opportunities for people who are friendly, motivated, and passionate about providing incredible customer service. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K, paid time off, and internal growth opportunities.

CES is a family-owned electrical wholesaler with the benefits of a worldwide service network and the personal service of a neighborhood store. Our "customer service first" core value has allowed us to grow continually for over 65 years while keeping our founding principle of empowering people to make local business decisions. CES now employs over 5,000 people at over 700 branches across North America.

Our vision is to add 30-35 branches a year, while staying true to our Company values.

We’re hiring a recent graduate or early career professional who wants to launch a career in corporate communications. The Communications team at CES is a highly collaborative group that is passionate about advising, engaging, and inspiring employees to deliver on our business strategies and goals. The team works with internal stakeholders to develop and execute the internal communications strategy, deliver projects, and build and maintain important relationships.

The Communications Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the delivery of internal communications across company channels to help employees stay informed and connected to our values, business strategies, and important company information. This role supports the Communications team by preparing, scheduling, publishing, and maintaining communications and helping ensure content is delivered accurately and on time. The Communications Coordinator reports to the Communications Manager.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, responsive, and comfortable managing multiple communications and deadlines. This is a great first step into corporate communications, with training and room to grow.

• Coordinate the scheduling, preparation, and deployment of internal communications across email, The HUB intranet, newsletters, digital signage, presentations, and other communications channels.
• Maintain and update the editorial calendar, tracking upcoming communications, deadlines, approvals and publishing requirements to ensure communications are delivered accurately and on schedule.
• Prepare communications for publication by reviewing and proofreading content, formatting materials, confirming links and attachments, selecting appropriate audiences, testing communications, and ensuring all publishing details are accurate.
• Administer content management systems and communications channels, ensuring content is published accurately and reaches the intended audience.
• Draft and deploy recurring communications and routine employee messaging using established templates, guidelines and processes.
• Coordinate with the Communications team and internal stakeholders to gather final content, confirm publishing details, and support the communications workflow through deployment.
• Assist with data collection, reporting, process-improvement initiatives, and other special projects that support the Communications team.
• Monitor communications channels and maintain current and accurate content, while managing multiple priorities and deadlines with speed, discretion, accuracy, and responsiveness.

• Recent graduate or early career candidate (0 to 2 years of experience). Internships, class projects, and student organization experience all count.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related field preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and communications simultaneously.
• Strong follow-through and ability to work independently.
• Comfortable learning and working in content management systems, communication platforms, and other digital tools.
• Self-motivated with a positive, flexible, and service-oriented attitude.
• Ability to remain composed and responsive in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• Ability to work overtime as…