Manager, Corporate Communications

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact. With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

This role offers the opportunity to shape communications for a high-growth, global, publicly traded company. You'll work closely with leaders, gain exposure to diverse businesses and industries, and deliver communication that connects employees to our purpose while advancing the company's strategic priorities.

The Manager, Corporate Communications, is a high-visibility role responsible for designing and executing communication plans and channels across the company while maintaining close partnerships with corporate partners in HR, IT, Finance and Legal. The role will support both enterprise communication initiatives and functional priorities that impact the overall company. This ideal candidate will need strong attention to detail, writing skills and project management abilities.

This individual must possess curiosity to learn the business, problem solving skills and experience working with a wide array of stakeholders, internal and external. IDEX communications team operates in a lean, collaborative environment. This position offers significant exposure to senior leaders and opportunities to make an immediate impact. Ideal candidates should have experience prioritizing the most critical enterprise-level work, while providing standard tools and guideposts that can be leveraged for local or business-specific needs.

The position is hybrid, with remote working on Mondays and Fridays and office working Tuesday through Thursday at IDEX’s corporate headquarters in Northbrook, Illinois, to foster better collaboration, connection, and innovation. This position will require occasional travel to IDEX business units.

• Oversee enterprise communication channels including company intranet, town halls, email platforms, social media, company website and newsroom.
• Analyze ongoing metrics for all communication channels and campaigns, highlighting insights and opportunities to improve.
• Explore new communication channels that support IDEX communication strategy.
• Leverage emerging communication technologies, including AI-enabled tools, to improve content development, efficiency and audience reach while maintaining high standards of quality and accuracy.
• Curate and facilitate content sharing across businesses and teams, ensuring milestones and wins are widely known and celebrated across the company.
• Design and execute communication plans supporting enterprise initiatives, including M&A, sustainability, transformation and culture changes.
• Serve as an expert in communications across the enterprise, implementing best practices and designing self-serve solutions that improve communication across the company.
• Partner with business units and corporate functions to translate complex business topics into clear, compelling communications for internal and external stakeholders (e.g., earnings communications, narratives for annual reports and investor presentations, and content for town halls and other employee-facing communications).
• Support executive and leadership communications, including presentations, talking points, videos, speeches and employee messages.
• Coordinate enterprise-wide announcements with careful attention to timing, audience needs and organizational…