Title:  Group Manager Corporate Communications

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do. 

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

Are you up for the challenge?

We have a unique opportunity for a Group Manager Corporate Communications to join our Customer & Corporate Affairs team.  This position can be based in our Melbourne or Sydney office.

This role will lead John Holland’s corporate communications strategy, including celebrating project achievements, building our people’s pride and engagement, and supporting work winning.

You will manage internal and external content, internal channels, and engagement approaches for the business – including coaching leaders and advising the Executive on issues management, business strategy and priorities.

This is an exciting time to join John Holland with a reshaped executive and new CEO, offering unique opportunities for you to make an impact.

About the Role

• Build and maintain effective relationships with Executive, senior leaders and SMEs in the business to understand key issues/challenges, strategic direction and priorities.
• Advise Executive on communications strategy, narrative and approach.  
• Advise, support and influence leaders to communicate effectively with their teams and in line with our business strategy, brand and values. 
• Be a champion of employees and represent employees’ voice in strategic discussions and decisions impacting our people. 
• Lead the strategy and delivery of John Holland internal communications, including intranet, Viva Engage, corporate events and leader/all employee communications. 
• Lead and develop content across internal and external channels, supporting John Holland to win and deliver projects and build pride in our people. 
• Work as a senior leader in the broader Customer & Corporate Affairs function, driving integrated stakeholder and communications strategies to enhance and protect John Holland's relationships with customers its brand and reputation. 
• Contribute to enterprise-wide incident and crisis communications response with Executive leadership.
• Understand business culture, mood and what resonates through stakeholder engagement, data and insights. 
• Drive creative, best practice ideas and approaches to ensure John Holland engagement remains best in class and fit for purpose. 
• Help close the gap between projects, business units and corporate when it comes to communications– ensuring our diverse and dispersed employees are all considered and engaged.

About You:

You will have a tertiary qualification in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing or a related discipline.  You will have significant experience leading communications in large, complex and diverse organisations, with expertise in issues management and change.

You will have extensive experience managing and influencing senior stakeholders. Your experience in leading effective and engaged teams, along with your clear and confident written and verbal communication style, will help you succeed in the role.

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success. 

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority. 

What’s in it for you?

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits. 

We offer: 

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options. 

Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing. 

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities. 

Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities. 

Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.

Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.