Senior Manager Strategic Issues & Sustainability Communications (EMEA)

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Belgium - Mechelen Belgium - Antwerpen

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

Chemours is seeking a Senior Manager Strategic Issues & Sustainability Communications (EMEA) to join our growing Communications team! This position will report directly to the Senior Manager Marketing Communications at our Mechelen or Antwerpen location in Belgium .

The role deeply understands our business and its objectives in order to develop strategic communications that contribute to the achievement of desired outcomes infusing working knowledge of key issues that create reputational risk, affect market access, or customer perceptions of the company. The role uses this combined knowledge to develop communications strategies, tactics, and response plans.

The role is responsible primarily for leading proactive communications strategies, tactics, and developing communications assets, and planning communications-driven events. Deliverables include but are not limited to key messaging documents, presentations, advertorials, OpEds, customer presentations, webinars, and panel discussions. In addition, the role represents Chemours’ interests and needs in regional (EMEA) industry organizations and is actively engaged and involved as a communication expert and thought partner with senior leadership on strategic business communications.

The Senior Manager Strategic Issues & Sustainability Communications must also stay apprised of external dynamics by monitoring the news media environment (online publications, trades outlets, key opposition groups, etc.) for key issues, and then synthesize those happenings into implications and appropriate recommended responses that are shared with the business leaders via written reports or meetings in a timely manner. And, as needed additional outreach to employees, customers, and key industry groups.

The Senior Manager Strategic Issues & Sustainability Communications will collaborate with the appropriate business leaders and a cross-functional team of subject matter experts in developing communications plans and assets. The successful candidate will work closely with Business Leaders, Corporate Communications, Government Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability, and Legal to ensure coordination and alignment when executing issues, and strategic business advocacy strategies and tactics.

Roles & Requirements

• Develops key messaging and communications plans in support of business issues and strategic advocacy.
• Focuses on a set of defined issues with potential impact to company or brand reputation, customer perception or market access, effectively deliver strong communication strategies that protect and advance business objectives.
• Supports the development and implementation of stakeholder communications plans including creating messaging, press releases, collateral material, fact sheets and FAQs for key business or market issues.
  

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Ability to understand technical information and to process complex data sets to arrive at actionable communications recommendations.
• Ability to distill complex information into factual and easy-to-understand key messaging.
• Expert in stakeholder management and cross-functional partnership and collaboration around communications in the face of challenging issues and high risk.
• Critical thinker with sound logic and judgement in the face of ambiguity or difficult choices.
• Ability to remain calm and objective when making decisions.
• Bright, hardworking, and enthusiastic with a serious commitment to excellence.
• Self-starter and team player.
• Ability to interact successfully with all levels of management, build consensus and influence.
• Solid business acumen with an understanding of how communications can strategically impact a public company’s sales, business development and external visibility/brand reputation.
• Ability to work across international borders and establish regionally relevant general business, issues, and crisis communications programs.
• Outstanding oral, written and presentation skills.
• Experience in a chemical, science-based, or highly regulated industry is preferred.
  

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, public relations, business, marketing, international relations, or technical discipline.
• 8 years of corporate communications/PR agency background – with focus on chemical or related industry.
• 5-7 years of issues, advocacy, or strategic business communications experience (corporate, govt., and/or PR agency).
• Must be authorized to work in Europe and able to travel domestically or abroad as required.
  

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive Benefits Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Strong Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives
• Company-paid Volunteer Days
  

We’re Chemours. a Different Kind Of Chemistry Company

We are driven by our purpose to create a more colorful, capable, and cleaner world through the power of chemistry.

Built upon a 200-year-old legacy and a world-class product portfolio, we bring everyday convenience to virtually everything people touch—in industries ranging from automotive, paints, and plastics to electronics, construction, energy, and telecommunications. We bring solutions that are better, safer, more reliable, and more sustainable, through the power of chemistry.

OUR APPROACH

We see our people as our biggest assets. Instead of focusing just on what our employees do each day, we look at how they do it. By taking a different approach to talent development, employee engagement, and culture, our goal is to empower employees to be their best selves—at Chemours and in life.

The “ours” in Chemours represents everyone who works here. We’re thousands strong and always looking for the best and brightest to join our team.

OUR CULTURE

Five fundamental, foundational values form the substructure of our culture as a multinational corporation. They are core beliefs that guide and frame both our behaviors and our aspirations. Our values are in part what differentiate us from others, making us uniquely Chemours. They are—Customer Centered, Refreshing Simplicity, Collective Entrepreneurship, Safety Obsession, and Unshakable Integrity. At Chemours, our values are where everything begins.

We were honored to be named a “Great Place to Work-Certified Company” for 2019-2020­ — our second consecutive year .

At Chemours, you will find sustainability in our vision, our business and your future. If you want to work on the leading edge of your field and have a desire to make a difference, join Chemours and discover what it means when we say “We Are Living Chemistry”.

At Chemours, you will find sustainability in our vision, our business and your future. If you want to work on the leading edge of your field and have a desire to make a difference, join Chemours and discover what it means when we say “We Are Living Chemistry”.

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A new company. A new purpose. A new commitment to customers and chemistry. We are Chemours. And even more exciting is how our employees are committed to be catalysts for better. The word “ours” is in our name intentionally. It is about our employees, our customers and our world. Our values are simple: We seek to put our customers first always. We encourage creativity and simplicity. We give you the ability to operate with the innovation and enthusiasm of an entrepreneur. We are obsessed with making our world safe and we do this all with unshakable integrity – doing what is right. See chemistry in a different way at Chemours.

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