Vice President, Enterprise Communications & Reputation

Vice President, Enterprise Communications & Reputation
Job Description

Reporting to: Head of Enterprise Marketing, Communications & Events
Location: New York City

Position Overview

The Vice President, Enterprise Communications & Reputation leads Thomson Reuters’ enterprise communications and reputation strategy, helping employees, customers, media, analysts, partners and other stakeholders understand, trust and engage with the company’s strategy, leadership and priorities.

Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Marketing, Communications & Events, this role serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership and is accountable for strengthening employee alignment, leadership confidence, external trust and enterprise reputation across a complex global organization.

The Vice President will lead a globally distributed communications organization spanning executive communications, employee communications, corporate communications, Corporate Affairs, media relations, reputation management and related capabilities. This leader will help shape the future-state communications operating model while ensuring the company communicates with clarity, credibility and confidence during periods of transformation, opportunity and risk.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Communications Strategy

• Develop and execute an integrated enterprise communications and reputation strategy.

• Translate enterprise priorities into a coordinated communications agenda across audiences, markets and moments.

• Align internal and external communications around stakeholder needs and business objectives.

• Establish governance, planning and prioritization disciplines that improve focus and effectiveness.

• Partner across EMC&E, segments, field marketing and business leadership to connect the enterprise story to customers, employees and the market.

Executive Influence & Leadership Communications

• Serve as a trusted communications and reputation advisor to the CEO and senior executives.

• Lead executive communications and positioning efforts.

• Support executive thought leadership, keynotes, visibility strategies and high-impact leadership moments.

• Guide leadership communications during periods of transformation, opportunity and risk.

• Partner with Brand, Thought Leadership, TRI and Events to activate executive narratives and enterprise messaging.

Employee Communications

• Lead enterprise employee communications, helping employees understand company strategy, priorities, performance, products and their role in delivering them.

• Partner with change-management leaders to communicate organizational changes, acquisitions, policy changes, tooling and system changes, and other enterprise programs.

• Support enterprise campaigns and launches where employee understanding or action is strategically important.

Enterprise Communications & Reputation

• Lead enterprise communications, Corporate Affairs and enterprise media relations.

• Develop proactive reputation-building and stakeholder-engagement programs.

• Oversee issues management, incident communications and crisis readiness, response and recovery.

• Support financial, M&A, analyst and other high-value stakeholder communications.

• Guide strategic communications related to AI, innovation, transformation and other enterprise priorities.

• Partner with Legal, HR, Finance, Security, Government Relations and business leadership during high-impact situations.

• Strengthen Thomson Reuters’ position as a trusted authority in the industries and markets it serves.

Communications Effectiveness & Organizational Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed communications team.

• Clarify ownership, accountability, decision rights and ways of working.

• Build communications governance, operating rhythms, editorial planning and prioritization disciplines.

• Establish intake and portfolio-management practices that focus resources on the highest-value opportunities.

• Improve effectiveness through content coordination, operational discipline, agency and vendor management, and communications technology.

• Define communications measurement requirements and partner with Analytics and insight teams on execution.

• Help shape the future-state communications operating model, talent strategy and organizational capability without presupposing final reporting lines.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in communications, Corporate Affairs, reputation management or related disciplines.

• Experience advising a CEO, C-suite executives and senior leadership teams.

• Demonstrated success integrating executive, employee, change, corporate and external communications around an enterprise agenda.

• Expertise in reputation, media relations, stakeholder communications, issues management and crisis communications.

• Experience leading employee communications and communications for complex transformation.

• Experience building and leading globally distributed teams.

• Proven ability to design operating models, clarify decision rights and improve organizational effectiveness.

• Strong judgment, discretion, candor and comfort operating in high-stakes environments.

• Exceptional written, verbal and executive-presentation skills.

• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, highly matrixed global organization.

• Experience in information-driven, professional services, media, technology or regulated industries is strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Must be based in New York City and able to work from the New York office in accordance with Thomson Reuters’ approved work-arrangement expectations.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $201,600 USD - $374,400 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at View email address on aiapply.co. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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