Associate Director, Internal Communications

Your role at Clorox:

The Head of Internal Communications (Associate Director) is responsible for leading Clorox’s enterprise internal communications strategy and execution ensuring teammates (employees) are informed, engaged, and connected to our purpose, strategy, and business priorities. This role serves as a senior strategic advisor to executive leaders, shaping how we communicate the most critical enterprise moments to our most important stakeholders – our people. The role drives alignment across the organization and strengthens our transformation at scale. The role leads a high-performing internal communications center of excellence, with accountability for internal executive communications, enterprise messaging, and teammate engagement.

In this role, you will:

Enterprise Internal Communications Strategy

• Defines and leads the company’s internal communications strategy aligned to enterprise priorities, company’s purpose and values, and business performance.
• Develops strong relationships with functional and business leaders; identifies communications needs and establishes strategic plans and tactical implementation of those plans.
• Anticipates communications needs and leads proactive planning for key enterprise moments and transformations; creates an integrated narrative and roadmap that clearly links business priorities with individual performance.

Executive Communications

• Advises and works with CEO and other senior executives to drive strategic internal communications through a drumbeat of regular touch points and through global town halls, quarterly earnings announcements, annual anniversary recognition events and leadership meetings.
• Shapes messaging that drives clarity, trust, and action across the organization.
• Develops strong messaging platforms, templates and tools to assist senior leaders with their town halls, team communications and recognition events.

Teammate Engagement

• Designs communications that reinforce Clorox’s purpose, values, and culture.
• Drives engagement strategies and tactics that build understanding, alignment, and connection across global teams.
• Partners with HR to support performance, employee listening, and change initiatives. Develops an annual plan and calendar that supports annual HR processes including benefits open enrollment, performance management review cycles, and career development opportunities.
• Develops templates, tools and processes used by HR leaders to directly conduct strategic communications at a functional or local level.

Manager Communications Capability

• Provides communications resources to help managers drive teammate understanding of company strategies, business priorities, values and behaviors. Translations corporate strategies into actionable functional or business unit priorities.
• Develops and promotes adoption of communication channels to spark manager dialog with teammates at the functional and business unit level.

Cross-Functional Integration

• Partners across HR, Investor Relations, Legal, Business Units, and Transformation teams to drive consistent enterprise narrative and strong employee experience (in-person and digital).
• Acts as a central integrator during high-priority or high-risk enterprise communications.
• Serves as a key member of the corporate communications leadership team for issues management and crisis response.

Team Leadership

• Builds, leads, and develops a high-performing internal communications team. Sets clear priorities, ensures disciplined execution, and drives accountability for results.
• Serves as a member of the corporate communications leadership team – informs overall communications strategy.
• Fosters a culture of excellence, speed, and continuous improvement.

What we look for:

• 10+ years of experience in corporate communications, with significant focus on internal communications
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level communications strategies in complex organizations
• Experience advising and supporting senior executives, including CEO-level communications
• People management experience; strong people leadership skills to support growth and development of the team.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and ability to translate business strategy into clear, actionable communication
• Proven crisis communications experience – advising senior leaders in crisis situations; developing and executing crisis plans to engage internal audiences.
• Outstanding writing, storytelling, and verbal communications skills
• Strong leadership and team management capabilities
• Proven ability to influence across senior leaders and navigate ambiguity
• High judgment and ability to manage sensitive, high-stakes communications
• Data-driven approach to measuring communications effectiveness
• Experience leveraging digital platforms and emerging AI tools
• Operates with an enterprise mindset and strong business acumen
• Leads with clarity, accountability, and a bias for action
• Builds trust and credibility with senior leaders and teammates
• Anticipates risks and opportunities, and acts with agility
• Models Clorox values and elevates standards across the function
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, business, or a related field required
• Advanced degree (MBA or Master’s degree in Communications) preferred

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Workplace type:

Hybrid- 3 days in office; 2 days WFH

Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That’s why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive. .

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $153,700 - $309,000

–Zone B: $140,900 - $283,300

–Zone C: $128,100 - $257,500

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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