Internal Communications Specialist

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Internal Communications Specialist at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating, initiating and executing internal communications projects by collaborating with a variety of business partners to meet or exceed deliverables while ensuring Garmin brand guidelines.


Essential Functions

• Monitor the internal communications project workflow system and ensure all requests are responded to and initiated in a timely manner
• Ability to manage complex workload while serving internal client needs
• Responsible for maintaining and updating all department site pages on the company wide associate intranet with a sense of urgency and minimal oversight
• Serve as the department liaison for the Garmin Intranet, monitoring company-wide sites and notifying internal stakeholders when their sites need to be updated; align with department leaders to identify needs and make appropriate content recommendations
• Oversee the human resources internal video library; work with HR leaders to create and share associate video vignettes on an ongoing basis; assign and edit videos to represent ongoing candidate recruitment needs
• Coordinate print production requests across various departments in support of a variety of recognition and training programs such as associate of the month and new associate orientation
• Serve as an active participant on internal and external corporate event committees and manage a variety of Intranet-related projects to promote associate engagement such as volunteer signups, event registrations, external partner communications and swag distribution
• Coordinate and/or provide photography and video requests as needed by the corporate events team
• Independently perform continual copy and formatting updates to corporate handbooks and policy documents, ensuring quality and accuracy, and upload to corporate Intranet
• Maintain corporate photo library throughout the digital asset management system, ensuring imagery is up to date and includes new global facilities, business leaders and corporate milestones, awards and events; exercise independent judgment to edit, add, and delete assets as necessary
• Use creativity and originality to write short stories and identify assets for the Garmin internal blog
• Create and provide project status reports to internal stakeholders

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing or related discipline AND a minimum of 1 year of experience in a communications role (can include internship)
• Demonstrated ability to edit and write AP-style copy
• Experience working in corporate or internal communications environment
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and work on tight deadlines
• Proficient use of Microsoft Products including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Superior organizational and analytical skills with keen attention to detail and quality

Desired Qualifications

• Proficient use of SharePoint, Jira and Adobe Suite

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits