Vice President, Strategic Communications

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The VP, Strategic Communications develops and executes an integrated communication strategy that connects enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities, and business performance to the stakeholder audiences most critical to growth. The role serves as the steward of the company’s enterprise narrative, ensuring employees, customers, investors and other key stakeholders understand what the company is doing, why it matters and how it advances long-term value creation making IDEX an employer or investment of choice.

The VP leads all aspects of corporate communications, executive communications, employee engagement communications, media relations, crisis management, thought leadership, issues management, and reputation strategy. In an increasingly complex environment shaped by artificial intelligence, social media, stakeholder activism, geopolitical uncertainty, and heightened expectations for transparency, the VP must ensure communications are data-driven, sophisticated, and tightly aligned with business objectives.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive enterprise communications strategy that support business outcomes aligned with company growth plans.
• Translate enterprise strategy, capabilities and portfolio priorities into stakeholder narratives that advance business objectives and reinforce the company’s value proposition.
• Establish and govern the enterprise messaging framework, defining how enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities, and business capabilities are communicated across stakeholder groups while providing guidance on when enterprise versus local business messaging should lead.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive leadership team and Board of Directors on communication risks and opportunities.
• Lead communication planning for major business initiatives, transformations, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and strategic investments.
• Partner with enterprise and business leaders to translate strategic investments, new capabilities, M&A and transformation initiatives into compelling stakeholder narratives that support business growth and enterprise value creation.

• Design and lead enterprise-wide internal communication strategies that help employees understand company strategy, business performance, organizational priorities, and the role they play in delivering enterprise growth.
• Translate enterprise strategy and executive priorities into clear communications that build organizational alignment, reinforce culture and enable leaders to communicate more consistently across the enterprise.
• Oversee executive town halls, provide support re: executive communications;
  Responsible for intranet strategy and maintenance.

• Monitor emerging issues and trends that could impact corporate reputation.
• Build proactive strategies and integrated campaigns that increase company visibility and credibility re: business growth and market leadership (partner with investor relations, legal, corporate strategy, and HR).
• Develop communication protocols, plans, and response frameworks for crisis communications (e.g., operational disruptions, reputational events, cybersecurity incidents, litigation matters, regulatory inquiries, and workforce issues).
• Support earnings communications, annual reports, investor presentations, and stakeholder engagement efforts articulating a compelling narrative around company performance, strategy and value creation.
• Develop audience specific communication strategies that articulate enterprise strategy through the lens most…