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Senior Director, Strategic Communications
Manulife Financial
Boston, MA, United States
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Description
Are you looking for unlimited opportunities to develop and succeed? With work that challenges and makes a difference and a flexible and supportive environment, we can help our customers achieve their dreams and aspirations.
The Senior Director, Strategic Communications is responsible for building integrated promotional strategies across internal and external channels while providing communications counsel and support to senior business leaders throughout John Hancock. This role will help find and amplify the stories that define John Hancock’s brand and reputation. This role will report to the Vice President, Head of Corporate Communications. Both in-house and agency experience is welcome and a passion for financial services, asset management and/or technology is preferred.
Responsibilities:
• Help build integrated communications strategies across internal and external audiences to amplify our company’s business goals and values. Provide expertise across disciplines, audiences, technologies, tactics, channels, measurement, and proactive and reactive activities. This includes messaging, media relations, internal communications, editorial content creation and thought leadership.
• Help shape the next generation of the communications group by building on strong progress to date and driving new approaches to deliver more creative, efficient, and effective work by challenging processes and recommending new approaches.
• Build and continuously refine strategic messaging and content to tell John Hancock’s story across our global wealth and asset management business, insurance business and in support of our partnerships and sponsorships, including the Boston Marathon.
• Champion creative ideas and well-structured, well-supported and clearly articulated points of view, balancing risk/reward tradeoffs.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key influencers and journalists pertinent to our business.
• Develop content and engagement strategies to inform, educate and inspire employees across John Hancock.
• Uncover industry, media and market trends to inform relevant, real-time content and engagement, authentically inserting John Hancock’s brand, assets and products into the conversations across channels.
• Work effectively through shared processes with others at all levels within the organization.
Qualifications:
• Seasoned communicator, 8 - 10 years’ experience.
• Strong contacts in the U.S. business media across retail and institutional audiences in local and national markets.
• A strategic thinker who is able to make connections across the business and apply them to communications initiatives; anticipates issues and proactively works to resolve them.
• Demonstrated ability to lead communications activities during significant change/corporate evolution.
• Results oriented; takes pride in delivering consistently high-quality work and effectively conveys the value of such.
• Experience leading and managing teams, including in-house and agency.
• Strong background in measurement tools used to assess the impact of communications programs.
About John Hancock Financial and Manulife
John Hancock is a division of Manulife, a leading Canada-based financial services group with principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States. Operating as Manulife in Canada and Asia, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States, our group of companies offers clients a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services through its extensive network of employees, agents and distribution partners. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were over $1 trillion (US$780 billion) as of June 30, 2017. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at manulife.com.
The John Hancock unit, through its insurance companies, comprises one of the largest life insurers in the United States. John Hancock offers and administers a broad range of financial products, including life insurance, annuities, investments, 401(k) plans, long-term care insurance, college savings, and other forms of business insurance. Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com.
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