Internal Communications Manager

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🕒 April 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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Fortive

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2016

🏢 Enterprise

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-03

Enterprise • Healthcare Insurance

Fortive is a global industrial technology company that specializes in delivering advanced healthcare solutions, intelligent operating solutions, and precision technologies. With a team of 18,000 employees, Fortive works on solving tough technical challenges, empowering safer, smarter, and more efficient industrial operations. The company emphasizes sustainability, integrity, and continuous improvement, striving for a future that's stronger, safer, and smarter. Fortive has been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies, demonstrating its commitment to positive social and environmental impact.

📋 Description

• Own the internal communications strategy and annual editorial calendar aligned to business and people priorities. • Establish and manage the internal communications operating model, including channel strategy, governance standards, intake and prioritization, and approval workflows. • Serve as a trusted communications advisor to senior leaders; develop executive messaging including organization-wide announcements, scripts, presentations, and senior leader and all-employee meeting content. • Enable effective leader and manager communication through clear message cascades, ready-to-use toolkits, FAQs, and talk tracks. • Lead change communications for high-impact initiatives such as organizational changes, policy updates, system implementations, and business transformations. • Create high-quality written and multimedia content for internal channels including email, newsletters, intranet content, webinars, leadership forums, and video scripts. • Own and evolve internal communications channels and the intranet, ensuring content is accurate, accessible, well-governed, and relevant to employees. • Partner cross-functionally with HR, IT, Legal, and business teams to plan and deliver timely, effective internal communications. • Define internal communications KPIs and track reach, engagement, and channel effectiveness; use insights and feedback to continuously improve impact. • Incorporate employee listening and engagement survey insights into communication planning and storytelling. • Lead internal communications during sensitive or high-impact situations, ensuring messaging is timely, clear, and empathetic.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field. • 5+ years of experience in internal or employee communications within a complex or distributed organization. • Demonstrated experience building and scaling internal communications strategies, governance, and editorial operations. • Strong change communications capability and experience supporting organizational or operational change. • Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills. • Experience partnering with senior leaders and supporting executive-level communications. • Experience managing internal communications platforms such as intranets (e.g., SharePoint), email systems, and collaboration tools. • Strong planning, prioritization, and project management skills with high attention to detail. • Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion. • Native-level proficiency in written and spoken English.