Signify

Job Title

External Communications Manager

Job Description

We’re looking for a full-time External Communications Manager to join our Global Brand, Communications and Marketing team in Amsterdam.

Working for Signify means being creative and adaptive. Our culture of continuous learning and commitment to diversity and inclusion creates an environment that allows you to build your skills and career. Together, we’re transforming our industry.

As External Communications Manager, you will play a key role in building a protecting Signify’s corporate reputation, with responsibility for identifying and crafting compelling stories about Signify and its global businesses as well as ensuring quality and consistency of content across our global communications network. You have a leading role to play in our purpose and strategy, working with the Head of External Communications and supporting a network of business stakeholders and communications professionals at Signify, developing and editing press releases, blogs and other content including for internal communications that supports the Signify corporate brand throughout the year and during key corporate milestones including quarterly and annual results.

As the world leader in lighting, we’re constantly ahead of the curve. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we’re breaking new grounds in data analytics, AI, and smart homes, offices, cities and more!

Signify is one of the few companies in the world to achieve carbon neutrality and our next sustainability goals are even bolder: doubling our positive impact on the environment and society by 2025.

We’re on the lookout for forward-thinking innovators with a passion for sustainability. If you match this description, get in touch!

What you’ll do

• Work with executives, innovation and sustainability professionals, product and business leaders in globally distributed professional and consumer businesses to identify and share impactful stories about the Signify business.
• Create, edit, and publish content for Signify corporate channels, including press releases, blogs, and other channels.
• Create messaging, Q&A, articles and other content for internal and external use, including our Annual Report, AGM and other strategic communications projects.
• Support issues and crisis management, providing guidance to local communications leaders.
• Continuously integrate best-practices, outside-in learnings into content strategy and planning.

Your qualifications

• We are looking for someone with more than eight years’ experience in the Corporate Communications environment, ideally with both in-house and agency experience.
• You know how the media works and have a keen eye for the note and newsworthy, with the ability to cut through technical detail to get to a compelling narrative.
• You think customer-first and understand different audiences from corporate to consumer. You can identify and manage developing issues and developing effective communications responses to challenging situations.
• You can simplify complex information to create compelling messages for different audiences.
• Exceptional writing, editing and proof-reading skills.
• Strong business and strategic acumen, understanding of financial markets, stock market related announcements.
• Experience dealing with complex communications channels across multiple businesses.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work under high pressure at the highest level.
• Responsible and adaptable to organizational and market changes.
• Native English speaker and writer with a strong track record in writing high-impact content.

What you’ll get in return…

We’re offering multiple opportunities for career development, like mentoring, coaching and stretch assignments, with strong international exposure for dynamic profiles. Learning is fundamental to our culture. Through continuous learning, we are transforming the industry. You have the chance to learn every day, acquire new skills and perspectives through customized online programs, and on-the-job experiences.

See #SignifyLife through the eyes of our employees!

Who we are

Signify is the world leader in lighting. We provide professional customers and consumers with quality, energy-efficient LED lighting. And our lights, when connected, bring data to devices, apps and people – redefining what light can do and how you use it. Today, our innovations, such as LiFi – internet connectivity through light – and UV-C, solar and horticultural lighting, contribute to a safer, smarter, more sustainable world.

We’re operating in 74 countries with 32,000 people worldwide.