Voice Colleague Program Manager

Role Summary

The Voice of the Colleague Program Manager transforms employee feedback into clear, compelling stories that inform strategy, strengthen culture, and connect colleagues to organizational priorities and growth aspirations. This role helps ensure colleagues feel heard, informed, and inspired to contribute by aligning colleague voice with business strategy and demonstrating how feedback drives meaningful action.

• Create and deliver enterprise-wide communications that share employee feedback themes and organizational responses.
• Produce and publish “you said, we did” content that demonstrates how colleague feedback influences decisions and actions.
• Translate feedback into clear, engaging narratives that communicate employee experiences, priorities, and organizational direction.
• Partner with leaders across the organization to communicate progress on engagement initiatives.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the Idea Central intranet page, including content updates, idea moderation, and poll management.
• Analyze feedback trends and insights from engagement surveys, culture assessments, communication surveys, town halls, focus groups, interviews, and other feedback channels.
• Compile and present feedback data in a clear, actionable format to support reporting on engagement, participation, and outcomes.
• Track participation and engagement across communication channels and identify opportunities to enhance the colleague experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Communications, HR, Business, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in employee communications or HR
• 2+ years of experience in writing and storytelling
• 2+ years of experience with digital content and intranet platforms
• Strong writing and storytelling skills with the ability to translate feedback into clear, colleague-friendly messages
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
• Ability to collaborate across teams and manage multiple priorities

• Supporting feedback tools

This role provides the opportunity to shape how colleague feedback is heard, understood, and acted upon across the organization. You will collaborate with teams across the business, influence engagement initiatives, and help strengthen culture through meaningful communication and insight-driven action.

We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified parties, including but not limited to people returning to the workforce, people with disabilities, those without a college degree, and veterans or those with military experience.

In addition to core traditional benefits, we take pride in offering benefits for every stage of life.

• Retirement savings including both 401(k) and Pension plans.
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community.
• Opportunities to connect with others through our diversity-focused Colleague Resource Groups.
• Competitive salaries with professional development and advancement opportunities.
• Bonus benefits including well-being programs and incentives, parental leave, an employee stock purchase plan, military benefits and much more.
• Personal banking, loan, investment and insurance benefits.

Associated Bank serves more than 120 communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri and we consider our colleagues critical to our continued success.

We do this through our relentless focus on people, with a winning spirit, by listening before we act and with a commitment to achieve together.

Associated Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce.

We support a work environment where colleagues are respected and given the opportunity to perform to their fullest…