Manager, Communications (Marketing)

Job Classification:

Marketing & Communications - Marketing

Prudential's Corporate Function Communications team is looking for an internal communications professional who specializes in bringing internal events to life. From large-scale town halls to smaller, virtual events, you will have a critical role in ensuring that our events are creative, engaging and successfully meet the needs of stakeholders. We are seeking someone with strong project management, event coordination and internal communication experience. You will control the entire life cycle of an event from strategy, planning and management of the “day of” experience.

In this unique role, you will also have the opportunity to support a variety of employee engagement campaigns and internal communications activities, advising on appropriate communication and engagement techniques and proactively identifying communications opportunities. In addition, you may also write, edit, produce, and distribute internal communications content.

Responsibilities

• Support all cross-function events (an average of 1 – 4 events per month), such as town halls and leader events, and proactively identify ways to improve participation and engagement.
• Work closely with corporate function communication leaders to determine an event's needs and requirements, and create detailed project plans that outline tasks, timelines, and resources.
• Coordinate with strategists, Event Services, Creative Services and others to ensure events are completed on budget and on time.
• Support a variety of internal communication activities, under the direction of the vice president, cross-function communications.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of professional experience, demonstrating the ability to tell memorable stories through events and internal communications.
• The ability to write well, quickly and accurately. Your writing captures the interest of employees and translates sophisticated ideas into engaging content that resonates with colleagues.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
• Elite attention to detail with the ability to oversee multiple events at a time.
• Practical and technical knowledge of communication channels and content production.
• Resilience and flexibility; you're a self-starter who can handle unclear and sometimes conflicting direction.
• Enthusiastic, highly self-motivated, proactive and able to thrive in an extremely fast-paced and changing environment.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Suite: Word, Teams, SharePoint file-sharing, PowerPoint, and occasional Excel.
• This is an individual contributor role reporting to the vice president, corporate functions communications.

Hybrid role requires approximately 8 days monthly travel to Newark, NJ.  This travel is considered commuting and therefore is non-reimbursable. Prudential also reserves the right to adapt these expectations based on business needs and the changing requirements of the role.

Prudential Communications desired skills

• Business Acumen: Understands and leverages organizational, financial and industry data to better address customer needs and/or operations.
• Outcomes Focus: Delivers results that support project, function, and business outcomes, and maximizes my own utility by prioritizing work appropriately and executing efficiently.
• Creativity: Sees connections that others do not, successfully applies ideas drawn from seemingly unrelated contexts, and generates a wide array of useful solutions to solve problems.
• Persuasive Influence: Effectively persuades others, remains diplomatic in difficult situations, and leverage a large network of relationships for the good of the business.
• Communications Coaching: Coaches Communications colleagues and business partners in core communications skills and strategies when needed and shares good ideas for improving Communications' work and/or reputation.
• Channel Management: Increases familiarity of a wide array of channels, leverages their possibilities for maximum impact and adapts messages effectively to them.

Our Company and Culture

Prudential has been an industry leader in financial services for 150 years. We offer customers innovative solutions for growing and protecting wealth. With over $1.6 trillion in assets under management and a presence in 20 countries across 5 continents, we strive to service customers and create long-term value for stakeholders by pairing strong ethics and business fundamentals with a wide array of financial products and services, ranging from life insurance, retirement planning and annuities to asset management.

Prudential Financial, Inc. is focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We don't just accept differences—we celebrate them, support them, and thrive because of them. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to own their development as they design unique career paths that prepare them to excel in roles that stretch and grow them throughout their career. We encourage employees to perpetually hone their skills and explore opportunities across the Prudential's business.

About Prudential Communications

Prudential Communications works with partners and stakeholders inside and outside the enterprise to create advocacy for our company, asking meaningful questions, shaping dialogue about key issues, informing business decisions, building consequential relationships, and deepening connections. We work together across our team to deliver outcomes that further Prudential's purpose of making lives better by solving the financial challenges of our changing world, to accelerate Prudential's transformation and growth, and to cultivate belief in the company's future. We're committed to providing every member of our team with opportunities to learn and grow, while fostering closer integration, a truly inclusive workplace, and new ways of working that increase impact and productivity. We strive for excellence, simplicity, clarity, and impact in everything we do.

What we offer you:

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $118,700.00 to $176,600.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.