Communications + Brand Lead - Corporate Services

Job Description

The Corporate Services Lead, Communications + Brand (C+B) serves as the enterprise-level strategic partner for DPR's Corporate Services organizations, ensuring communications and brand strategy directly enable business priorities, workforce outcomes, and enterprise initiatives. This leader is a deeply embedded business partner, influencing decision-making, shaping narratives, and guiding leaders through moments of change, growth and transformation. The role is the primary interface between individual Corporate Services Leadership Teams and C+B Centers of Excellence which provide input into C+B strategies, program design and best practices. The Lead also coordinates additional C+B executions through the creative services teams ensuring alignment with brand standards and delivering a consistent and positive brand image. They are responsible for leading other C+B Business Partners whose primary responsibility is to identify, problem-solve, manage, implement and improve C+B outcomes for those functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Bring a business-first lens to C+B planning-prioritizing work based on impact, capacity, and enterprise.
• Advise leaders on how communications, brand, and storytelling can accelerate enterprise outcomes, reinforce culture, and strengthen alignment across the organization.
• Ensure Corporate Services narratives are consistent, credible, and connected to DPR's purpose, values, and long-term positioning.
• Help leaders clarify intent, align messaging to values, and communicate with authenticity and consistency.
• Act as primary liaison between Corporate Services leader and the Centers of Excellence and Creative Services to provide input and feedback from internal stakeholders.
• Partner with global and regional C+B leaders to ensure shared messaging, reusable assets, and coordinated execution.
• Appropriately implement core C+B strategies and best practices across key disciplines, including Employee Communications, Executive Communications, External Communications and Brand & Creative.
• Reinforce standardized planning, prioritization, and measurement while allowing for business-specific nuance.
• Lead and manage other Business Partners who provide services across corporate services in alignment with company business objectives.
• Ability to travel up to 50% annually within the domestic U.S.

Education and Experience

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, marketing or another related field

Work Experience

• 12+ years of professional experience across the multiple disciplines within Communications + Brand
• Construction industry and/or agency experience is a plus

Work Environment

• Inside - inside environmental conditions or standard office environment Constantly, 67% - 100%
• Physical Activity
• Repetitive Motions - substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, fingers, and/or hands. Constantly, 67% - 100%
• Sitting - particularly for extended periods of time. Constantly, 67% - 100%
• Talking - expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers must be conveyed accurately, loudly or quickly. Constantly, 67% - 100%
• Vision - distinguishing characteristics of objects using the eyes. Ability to receive detailed information through visual contact. Constantly, 67% - 100%
• Hearing - receiving detailed information through oral communication and making fine distinctions in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts. Constantly, 67% - 100%

National Compensation Range: $130,000.00 - $215,000.00 annually

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together-by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.