Senior Project Manager Communications – Focus on strategic HR, innovation and organizational change communication

Do you agree that the combination of communications and Human Resources is one of the most exciting opportunities in our field of work?

Do you want to help drive engagement and strengthen and protect Rabobank’s reputation when it comes to ‘being a great place to work’ and ‘being ready for the future’.

Is using your experience with reputation management and the Reptrak model your second nature?

Does your job give you energy when communication topics require strategic thinking combined with thorough expertise, craftsmanship, cooperation, coordination and a proactive, practical, human-centric approach?

Then the role as Communications Project Manager at the global Communications and Corporate Affairs (CCA) department could be yours.

You and your job

In this role at CCA, your focus will be on strategic HR communications, including comms around innovation and organizational change. Internal branding is close to your heart. That way you contribute to our worldwide reputation as a cooperative bank and a great place to be.

You will be the linking pin between CCA and CHRO comms, while also aligning strategic innovation themes. Together with colleagues in the CCA, HR and IT domain, you lay out overarching communications strategies, develop yearly data-driven communications plans (including internal branding), and are responsible for the execution.

You translate complex content into easy to understand, meaningful storylines that are globally consistent and locally relevant. You develop great assets while smoothly managing processes and stakeholders. Creativity comes into play when improving on existing formats and adding the latest developments in communication to the mix.

You work closely together with your HR comms colleagues. In case of issues regarding HR topics, you are a trusted advisor to the CHRO and will take a leading role in communications toward the Rabobank business lines and domains, and coordinate execution.

You proactively see opportunities for external and internal communications on HR and innovation related topics to strengthen our reputation.

At the same time, you will take responsibility to kick-start and coordinate the communications around strategic organizational change projects. And you are actively involved in our own department and will help build the broader communications function through your knowledge and expertise when it comes to reputation management and internal branding. This is a diverse and dynamic role with a lot of responsibility.

Your contribution

• Contribute to Rabobank’s reputation as a cooperative bank, a great place to be and innovation
• Collaborate with CHRO Internal Comms team to realize Rabobank’s HR strategy and drive employee engagement
• Help build a strong communications community worldwide to leverage impact

Facts & Figures

• Department of +/- 60 experienced colleagues
• 40,000+ Employees world-wide
• Communication colleagues in 37 countries
• Managing Board of 8
• 9+ Million customers around the world

Top 4 responsibilities

• In collaboration with your colleagues, design overarching communication strategies and year plans, that tie together strategic HR themes, innovation and internal branding and drive their execution.  
• Be a trusted advisor to the Internal Comms teams of CHRO and CITO,
• Be a trusted advisor to other senior leaders on communications around organizational change
• Inspire colleagues with your practical approach and knowledge, incl. reputation management

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Bring together people’s different perspectives is what makes us an even better Bank. We are curious to learn what you can bring to the Corporate Communications and Affairs (CCA) department.

A colleague: “Our Communications & Corporate Affairs department is responsible for strengthening Rabobank’s brand and reputation. We are a strategic sounding board and advisor for our 40,000+ colleagues. We challenge them to seize opportunities and are their eyes and ears in society. We show, both inside and outside Rabobank, what we stand for as a cooperative and help our colleagues achieve the bank’s ambitions. Our communications department profiles, positions, connects, facilitates, inspires, surprises, and puts issues on the agenda in a positive way.

The CCA department consists of the following sub-teams: Corporate & Internal Comms, Public Affairs, Media Relations, Branding, Content Hub. With you on board as a Communications Expert & Project Manager, the Corporate & Internal Communications team will have around 10 colleagues.

CHRO Rabobank is at the forefront of adapting to the Future of Work. They achieve this by embracing new methods and technologies, as well as through their agile internal organization, where HR, IT, and Communication experts collaborate within a single domain. Additionally, CHRO Rabobank is recognized for its Rabo@Anywhere policy and commitment to incorporating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) in all aspects of their operations. Read more: HR - Rabobank

You and your talent

Professional collaboration, Customer focus, Problem solving, Change agility and Storytelling are Rabobank skills that are clearly essential for this role.

You are a strong team player, with an international mindset. A strategic, data-driven thinker with a practical and hands-on mentality. Your organizational sensitivity is highly developed, and you are at ease when moving around in politically sensitive settings. In addition, it is important that you recognize yourself in the checklist below:

• Relevant university degree or equivalent;
• Relevant experience (7+ years) in a demanding communications environment. 3+ years of experience with strategic HR communications and reorganizations in another multinational is a must;
• Ability to advise senior leaders;
• Knowledge of and experience with reputation management and the Reptrak model
• Excellent communications craftsmanship (writing, presenting, scripting, presentations, visualization, social etc.);
• Result and output oriented; self-starting;
• Great project management skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence without authority;
• Team player and trusted advisor to senior management;
• Fluent in English and Dutch.

This is what we offer you

• a salary in the range of € 6.155,29 up to € 8.793,26 gross per month (scale 11, depending on knowledge, education and experience); 
• a thirteenth month and vacation pay; 
• an Employee Benefit Budget (11% of your monthly income). How you use this budget is up to you. Think, for example, of buying extra holiday time, an extra deposit in your pension or even having this budget paid out to you every month

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a Communications Project Manager based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on https://rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment

You and the job application process

Reply to the vacancy for a Communications Project Manager at Rabobank before 25th of June. 

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