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Make a +Difference at Kraton!
At Kraton, we make a Positive Difference, and we are looking for individuals who are also looking to make a difference in their jobs, for our customers and to the world. We are looking to hire a key member of our communictions team at our Global Headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas.
Key Responsibilities- Partners with executive leadership to design and implement cohesive internal and external communications, branding, and marketing strategies that align with business objectives.
- Collaborates with functional leaders to establish a consistent cadence of messaging that reinforces strategic priorities across internal and external audiences.
- Develops, reviews, and refines communication materials and templates to ensure clarity, alignment, and effectiveness—particularly in support of change management initiatives, board communications, and internal broad audience communications.
- Oversees the company's internal and external communication platforms, including websites and social media, to enhance brand reputation, visibility, and engagement – while identifying opportunities to improve the generation of business leads through digital channels.
- Defines and enforces brand standards to ensure messaging accuracy and alignment with the company's vision, values and strategic goals
- Works cross-functionally with Commercial, Product Management, and other externally facing teams (e.g. Sustainability) to equip them with tailored tools, materials, and presentations that support their communication needs.
- Leads the day-to-day operations of the Communications & Marketing team, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and timely execution of initiatives.
- Coaches and supports leaders in developing effective communication and messaging capabilities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Responsible for guiding the organization's response to media inquiries, media planning , and serving as the primary liaison to news and media outlets. Leads media engagement during issues or crises, drafts press releases, media statements, op-eds, and other external communications. Advises leadership on risk mitigation and public response strategies, while actively monitoring media to support strategic planning.
- The ability to consulting with multiple departments and develop concise content that promotes appropriate messaging and ensures accuracy.
- Knowledge of the principles, programs/platforms, practices, and techniques of oral, written, visual, video, other digital communications and interpersonal relations skills in order to determine the most effective communication methods and materials, to ensure message adoption and understanding.
- Strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design are essential, including ability to present concepts verbally; a plus for professional printing / publishing skills.
- Must possess strong change management, organizational, and planning skills, particularly prioritization, collaboration, and accountability for results.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with all levels within a global organization, particularly with executive management and be able to take a global / organizational perspective in approach and messaging.
- Bachelor's Degree - related field (English, Journalism, Marketing, etc.); Communications degree a plus.
- Minimum of 7 years' experience developing and delivering internal communications.
- Experience management people/teams.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
Kraton's internal talent acquisition team manages our recruiting efforts and from time to time works with pre-selected/pre-approved external staffing agencies. We do NOT accept unsolicited resumes or candidate referrals from recruiters and/or agencies who are not pre-selected/pre-approved.
Kraton is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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