Internal Communications Advisor - 12 - Month Contract

Requisition ID : 183501

Career Group : Corporate Office Careers

Job Category : Internal Communications

Travel Requirements : 0 - 10%

Job Type : Contract

Country : Canada (CA)

Province : Ontario

City : Mississauga, Dartmouth, Stellarton

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 131,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers.

Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country.

With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Reporting to the Manager, Internal Communications, you will plan and deliver communications strategies to advance Sobeys Inc.

business priorities, promote its organizational culture, and foster teammate engagement. The incumbent provides support to various stakeholders and business initiatives, establishes credibility in the delivery of services and builds solid working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

This is a 12 month contract.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing :

Develop and implement strategic communications plans for large-scale initiatives, organizational changes, program launches, and events.

End-to-end management, from strategy, through to execution and measurement.

• Advise senior leaders on strategic and change communications aimed at their internal audiences.
• Recommend and develop innovative communication approaches, optimizing the use of existing internal communication channels in order to maximize audience reach and engagement.
• Guide and coach leaders in their role as a communicator.
• Work closely with the External Communications team to increase visibility of external messaging among employees and maximize content reach.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to align on communications strategy.

Writing, editing, and production

• Promote employee advocacy by designing approaches centered on content-rich participative storytelling (developing an editorial approach, suggesting, writing, adapting, and editing content).
• Draft, revise, edit, produce, and distribute a variety of communications intended for various internal audiences, according to communications strategy.
• Perform quality control of documents for the company’s internal communication channels for projects under responsibility or for which the team is a key partner.
• Work with vendors to execute communications plans : translation, graphic design, video production, communications agencies, etc.
• Adapt and respond effectively to urgency and changes in business needs.
• Support the Manager, Internal Communications and the Director, Internal Communications with respect to event planning and coordination.

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What you have to offer :

• Post-secondary degree in Journalism, Communications or Public Relations / equivalent job experience
• Minimum 8 years of corporate communications experience in a large corporation.
• Experience in retail a strong asset.
• Experience in developing and implementing successful internal communications strategies for large-scale initiatives.
• Experience in developing creative communications assets across the full range of channels including print, digital and face-to-face.
• Solid understanding of the online environment, social media tools and new technology with the ability to apply them to communications strategies.
• Exceptional writing and storytelling skills in English. French is a strong asset.
• Event planning experience required.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week.

This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge.

These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively.

We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.