• Job Description

  Req#: INTER008551

  Founded over 100 years ago, Marvin is a family-owned company with a storied past and exciting future. We’re looking for a Senior Internal Communications Partner to inform, engage and inspire our 7,500+ Marvin employees, with an emphasis on our headquarters location in Warroad, MN. You’ll foster a positive, uniquely Marvin employee experience by focusing on internal communications, content and cultural initiatives that impact all geographies and levels of the organization. The ideal candidate will be adaptable and responsive to changing business needs, and will thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Our company purpose is rooted in happier, healthier living. This position will play a meaningful role in bringing this purpose to life internally, ultimately improving the employee experience, increasing employee retention, and supporting Marvin as a great place to work.

  Career growth, leadership training, and a culture built on family values are a few of the ways we support you professionally and personally. We invest in you from day one with an extensive benefits package, and $5,000 for relocation costs.

  Highlights of your role

  • Develop and Implement Internal Communication Strategies: Collaborate with operations and HR leaders in Warroad and throughout the enterprise as needed to develop and execute communication plans that support business objectives, promote transparency, and drive employee engagement.
  • Lead Communications Campaign Execution: Manage messaging execution in support of local and enterprise/HR initiatives and policies, including large-scale company announcements and campaigns; demonstrate a strong understanding of various employee audiences, and thought leadership on communications timing and cascade.
  • Create Engaging Content: Produce compelling written and visual content for various internal communication channels, including newsletters, intranet posts, email updates, and digital signage. Ensure all communication materials are clear, consistent, and aligned with organizational messaging.
  • Facilitate Change Communication: Support operational initiatives by developing change communication plans and materials to help employees understand the rationale, impact, and benefits of changes within the organization. Provide guidance and support to managers and leaders on change communication best practices.
  • Optimize Communication Channels: Continuously monitor internal communication channels, including intranet platforms, email distribution lists, and collaboration tools, and make optimization recommendations to ensure maximum reach and engagement.
  • Coordinate Operational Communications Engagements: Partner with operational leaders to plan and execute employee town hall meetings and communications platform training sessions. Coordinate logistics, develop agendas, and create supporting materials to ensure successful engagements that reinforce messaging priorities, strengthen Marvin’s culture, and align with organizational goals.
  • Provide Strategic Counsel: Serve as a trusted advisor to operational leaders, providing strategic counsel and thought leadership on internal communication matters. Offer insights and recommendations to enhance employee communication, collaboration, cascades, and alignment.

  Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Strong project management and solution-seeking abilities
  • Successfully developing and leading communications that tell a story, drive clarity, and motivate diverse audiences
  • Comfortable developing and leading strategies, new ideas and communication solutions for a wide variety of audiences and situations
  • Ability to turn complex, sophisticated business messages into communications that are appropriate for different audiences and business lines (e.g., senior leaders, managers, all employees)
  • Well-developed and dynamic writing skills, demonstrating an excellent command of language and the ability to creatively compose clear and engaging communications
  • Proven experience in sourcing and producing content for a wide variety of print, digital, and video platforms
  • Strong ability to collaborate with all levels of the organization including executive leadership; proven experience supporting executive communications
  • Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Excel
  • Superior organizational and prioritization skills, with a high comfort level in juggling multiple projects in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
  • Ability to use metrics and data to measure effectiveness and drive improvement
  • Refined interpersonal and relationship-building skills

  Education / Experience

  • 5+ years work experience developing enterprise-wide communication initiatives
  • Bachelor’s degree required in related field
  • Experience working across multiple innovative channels and platforms, including social media, video and digital

  Your opportunity for better living
  At Marvin, we’re driven to imagine and create better ways of living. And that goes beyond our customers, to our communities and the colleagues beside us every day. We offer competitive compensation, an extensive benefits package that includes health insurance on day one of employment, paid time off and paid holidays, and a 401K retirement savings match.

  We also support your overall wellness in other meaningful ways, including your own company-funded well-being account that can be used for anything from travel to a day at the spa, gym memberships or fun experiences with family and friends. You will be rewarded through our profit-sharing program, which recognizes the important role all employees play in making Marvin a success year, after year.

  As a premier company with locations across North America, Marvin’s portfolio also includes three additional premium brands: Infinity Replacement Windows, TruStile Doors, and Marvin Coastline. Together, we share one purpose and live our values. Our culture is built on generations of doing the right thing and putting our people first. Join us, and experience better living at Marvin.

  Marvin is an Equal Opportunity Employer

  This job posting is not designed to include or contain a comprehensive listing of the activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee. Marvin will make a reasonable accommodation for individuals with a mental or physical disability to apply for jobs and to perform the essential functions of the position unless it would cause an undue hardship. Any offer of employment is contingent on satisfactory completion of a drug screen to company standards.

• About the company

  Since the day we opened our doors in 1912 as a family-owned and -operated cedar and lumber company, we’ve looked for ways to help people live better. We continue to evolve by raising the bar, building quality, beauty and simplicity into people’s everyday lives. We are Marvin, and this is our story — thank you for being part of it.

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