Leader, Corporate Communications

Leader, Corporate Communications

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

The Corporate Communications Leader is a senior position accountable to designing strategies that build, strengthen and protect Interac's reputation with internal and external stakeholders. The role leads end-to-end corporate communication, issues management, citizenship and thought leadership efforts.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Developing and implementing a strategic internal and external communications plan to build corporate profile, brand awareness and employee engagement.
• Creating PR strategy for Interac executive thought leadership, leveraging PESO channels, supporting biz dev/sponsorship strategies.
• Strategically leading CEO communications and profile building internally and externally leveraging all strategic MarComm channels.
• Overseeing the development/maintenance of all proactive external communications, including ongoing corporate key messaging, speeches, briefing notes, press releases, articles, multimedia content, that drive MarComm KPIs.
• Driving the corporate/brand narrative for all communications and integration of communications strategies into brand, digital and product marketing, sponsorship, partner marketing, and public affairs programming.
• Mitigating negative issues externally, crisis and issue readiness and compliance, responding reactively to manage reputation, and creating proactive media/digital strategies to increase positive sentiment.
• Proactively managing reputation through corporate citizenship efforts, including managing key community partnerships, activating them internally and externally to promote employer brand and social responsibility; ensuring alignment to ESG and D&I strategies.
• Leading a team of 5+ high-performing leads with experience in corporate communications at all levels.

You bring:

• 15+ years of experience in corporate communications.
• Proven experience managing top-level executives and teams.
• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.
• Communications skills - written, verbal, influence, judgement, persuasion.
• Consulting skills – ideation, strategic counsel, risk mitigation.
• Time management & project delivery.
• Understanding of Canadian media landscape.

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work. Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.

Core Values: They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you.