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Glanbia

Join a dynamic global team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life's journey.

Glanbia is a global nutrition company with a clear purpose: to deliver better nutrition. We believe in the power of nutrition to unlock human potential.

As a protein powerhouse, our leading brands and ingredients support consumers in achieving their health, fitness, and lifestyle goals every day. Headquartered in Ireland, Glanbia operates in over 120 countries, with 27+ manufacturing sites across the US, UK, Germany, and China, and 20 innovation and collaboration centres worldwide. 

We operate at the heart of high-growth nutrition categories, aligned to powerful global consumer megatrends. Our leadership positions include:

• #1 Global Sports Nutrition Brand, with a growing lifestyle nutrition presence
• #2 Premix Solutions provider with leading natural and organic flavour capabilities
• #1 American-style cheddar cheese producer in the U.S., with leading whey protein solutions

The Senior Director, Internal Communications will play a critical leadership role in shaping how Glanbia connects with its global workforce.

You will co-create and deliver an engaging, inspiring, and results-driven internal communications strategy that enables business performance, accelerates transformation, and strengthens Glanbia's position as an employer of choice.

This is a highly influential role requiring strong business acumen, executive presence, and the ability to partner credibly with senior leaders across a complex, global organisation. You will be passionate about Glanbia's purpose and values and will build a high-performing internal communications function that drives clarity, alignment, and engagement at scale.

• Shape and steward Glanbia's internal narrative, translating business strategy into clear, compelling, employee-relevant communications that drive understanding, engagement, and action.
• Develop and lead an enterprise-wide internal communications strategy aligned to business priorities, employee experience goals, and transformation agendas.
• Establish governance and coordination across HR, business units, and functional teams to ensure consistent messaging, prioritisation, and alignment across all employee communications.
• Design and maintain integrated communication calendars, channel frameworks, and toolkits to ensure consistency, reduce duplication, and optimise impact.
• Own the enterprise internal channel ecosystem (e.g., OurGlanbia, Viva Engage, town halls, video, digital signage), ensuring accessibility and effectiveness across global employee populations.
• Enable scalable storytelling through consistent frameworks, templates, and approaches that elevate quality and impact globally.
• Lead communications strategy for major enterprise initiatives including culture, transformation, change adoption, DE&I, performance cycles, and engagement programmes.
• Measure and evaluate communications effectiveness using engagement analytics, sentiment insights, and channel performance data; continuously refine strategy based on insight.
• Develop dashboards linking communications activity to engagement, adoption, and business outcomes where possible.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to enhance content creation, audience segmentation, insight generation, and measurement capability.

• Significant experience in internal communications, employee engagement, and/or organisational change communications, with proven ability to engage and influence senior leadership teams.
• Experience operating in large, complex, global organisations with a track record of delivering measurable impact.
• Strong expertise in internal communications channels and platforms (e.g., intranet, Teams/Viva Engage, newsletters, video, town halls, digital platforms).
• Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams.
• Experience in a communications agency environment is highly desirable.
• Degree in Communications, Business, Organisational Psychology/Development or related field is an advantage.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution capability and a passion for employee experience.

This role is based in Chicago, Illinois, or Dublin, Ireland with hybrid working arrangements that support flexibility, balance, and impact.

At Glanbia, we offer the opportunity to build a meaningful career on a global stage. You will benefit from continuous learning through our on-demand learning platform, alongside a competitive compensation package including:

• Competitive base salary and annual bonus
• Staff discounts
• Generous family leave policies
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Global career development opportunities

For Illinois-based roles, the salary range for this position is $200,000 - $240,000 base + annual bonus, with final compensation based on experience, skills, and internal equity considerations.

Glanbia is a better nutrition company operating across three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition, and Dairy Nutrition. Together with our partners, we bring deep expertise across the nutrition landscape.

We employ approximately 5,800 people globally and sell our award-winning brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity and believe our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.