Director, Communications & Brand

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Primary Responsibilities Internal & External Communications Execution Transform strategic messages into compelling narratives, stories, graphics, and presentation materials. Lead storytelling for key initiatives, bringing clarity, consistency, and creativity to all deliverables. Manage communication channels (intranet, email, slides, SharePoint, website updates) to ensure timely, accurate information delivery. Support leaders with communication toolkit development, including talking points, presentation decks, templates, and visual storytelling. Develop, write, edit, and publish high-quality content for employees, including messages, news stories, announcements, scripts, videos, and campaigns. Develop and execute external messaging and storytelling that clearly communicates our value proposition, differentiation, and impact to customers, candidates, and other key stakeholders. Ensure consistency of external narratives across website, social media, campaigns, and other outward-facing channels. Partner with business and functional leaders to translate product, technology, and strategy into clear, externally facing content. Project & Program Management Serve as project manager for major communication programs, including culture initiatives, strategic campaigns, leadership meetings, and brand rollouts. Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and stakeholder workflows to ensure on‑time execution. Coordinate cross‑functional partners, consolidate inputs, manage approvals, and ensure alignment with strategy and brand guidelines. Manage logistics and communication deliverables for leadership summits, employee town halls, and enterprise events. Brand & Visual Identity Implement and maintain Novanta's visual and verbal brand identity across all materials. Develop and maintain templates, toolkits, and presentation materials for company‑wide use. Partner with business units to ensure consistent brand execution across decentralized teams. Support the development and rollout of brand campaigns, messaging frameworks, and storytelling assets. Slide Development & Visual Storytelling Create high‑impact PowerPoint presentations for leadership meetings, internal events, and external stakeholders. Translate complex topics into simple, visually clear messages, diagrams, and narratives. Elevate design quality by ensuring brand consistency, clarity, and professionalism across all presentations. Digital Presence & Content Drive and execute a coordinated external content strategy across digital channels (website and social media), aligned with company priorities and brand positioning. Lead social media content planning and execution, particularly on LinkedIn, including oversight of content calendars and publishing cadence. Partner with marketing, businesses, and functions to ensure consistent external messaging, tone, and priorities across all channels. Coordinate contributions to shared digital and social channels, aligning stakeholders and maintaining a cohesive brand voice across the company. Develop and support website and digital content, including updates and coordination with external partners. Monitor performance of external communications and apply insights to continuously improve content effectiveness, reach, and engagement. Sup

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Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing-improving productivity, enhancing people's lives and redefining what's possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications-from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing. Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta. We are seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, execution-focused Director, Communications & Brand to join our Corporate Communications team. This role is ideal for a strong project manager and hands-on content creator who excels at storytelling, crafting compelling presentations, and translating strategy into clear, engaging communications and visuals across multiple channels. This role plays a key role in shaping and executing internal and external communications, ensuring consistent, compelling positioning across digital channels, brand storytelling, and key stakeholder touchpoints. You will work closely with the VP of Communications, leaders, managers, and cross-functional partners to develop, package, and deliver internal and external communications and brand initiatives that support our culture, strategy, and employee and customer experiences. This role requires exceptional writing, editing, visual communication, and program-management skills

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