Your briefing has 25 new IC roles across the US, Canada, and the UK. Five offer remote work.
After the listings, we take up a question from a senior practitioner: what would make a move from IC into a VP or CCO role credible?
More below the listings.
👀 CAUGHT OUR EYE
Northrop Grumman's Space Systems role includes employees working in hard-to-reach and classified areas. The manager oversees the team and the mix of digital channels, live events, and internal media used to reach them.
MD Anderson gives an internal communications director the technology-risk brief. The remit includes cybersecurity, AI adoption, data governance, and communication during planned and unplanned outages.
🇺🇸 USA
Asurion
Strategic Communications Specialist
Nashville, TN
Bridgewater Associates
Operations Associate, Culture & Internal Communications
Westport, CT; New York, NY
DLA Piper
Director of Internal Communications
Multiple locations
Foundational AI lab via Ethos
Expert Opportunity - Corporate Communications Manager
Remote
GlobalFoundries
Employee Communications and Engagement Partner – Principal Specialist
Santa Clara, CA
Northrop Grumman
Manager Communication, Space Systems
McLean, VA
Northrop Grumman
Manager Communications, Defense Systems
McLean, VA
Pizza Hut
Manager, Internal Communications
Plano, TX
REI
Manager, Internal Communications (Stores & Fleet)
Seattle, WA
REI
Program Manager, Internal Communications
Seattle, WA
Stryker
Communications Lead (Internal Communications)
Mahwah, NJ
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Internal Communications Program Director
Remote (Texas only)
🇨🇦 CANADA
Air Canada
Partner, Employee Communications - Temporary
Dorval, Quebec
Cirque du Soleil
Senior Advisor Internal Communications and Employee Experience
Montréal, QC
Draganfly
Employee Engagement & Communications Specialist
Remote
EPCOR
Advisor, Employee Communications
Edmonton, Alberta
Extendicare
National Director, Internal Communications
Markham, Ontario
Scotiabank
Assistant Manager IB Communications
Toronto
🇬🇧 UK
Aon
Communications Manager
London
Deloitte
Communications & Strategy Manager
London
Gallagher
Executive Communications Lead
Glasgow
KFC UK & I
Internal Communications & Events Manager
Woking
Ocado Logistics
Internal Communications Coordinator
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
RNIB
Internal Communications Consultant
Remote
RNID
Internal Communications Lead (Mat cover)
Remote
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The missing rung
The email began with a promotion question.
A senior internal communicator had built a career inside the function and wanted, eventually, to become a CCO. What business and financial understanding would make that move credible? Where could it be learned?
The practitioner’s own read was that external communications teams can point to share of voice, brand perception, and media results. IC touches employee engagement, productivity, strategic alignment, technology adoption, and the information people need to do their jobs.
In its Future of IC Profession survey, the Institute of Internal Communication found that 40% of respondents were unsure about their career trajectory.
And the 2026 CASA turnover study found that, in the US, 62% of vacant CCO posts went to internal candidates in 2025. A year earlier, 66% had gone to external hires. The study does not tell us how many of those internal candidates came through IC. So we went looking for what the route might demand.
This week’s job descriptions put the question in a different light. At DLA Piper, the Director of Internal Communications reports to the CCO. The role advises senior leaders, connects communication to business objectives, aligns internal and external messages, and builds a measurement framework.
We also noticed that at Citi, a Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications works with the Commercial Bank’s global leadership. The bank calls that business a key growth driver. Its communicator is expected to translate financial concepts and apply risk judgment to business decisions.
The placements are interesting. At DLA Piper, business objectives enter the IC brief. At Citi, the communicator sits with the leaders of a business described as a growth driver.
A finance course or an MBA might give a communicator more vocabulary for that room. The Citi description made us wonder about the room itself: how often has the person been close enough to see which numbers shape a decision, or how the business carries risk?
In an Egon Zehnder conversation, leadership adviser Liz Avera describes a weekly “But For Me” reflection. She asks people to identify a success that could not have happened, or happened in the same way, without their contribution.
For a senior internal communicator, we would add at least two questions:
Where did my judgment enter the work?
What did it teach me about how the company makes money or carries risk?
The practitioner wrote to us looking for knowledge. A course can supply useful language. But the job descriptions leave us with another question: what might be learned only by moving closer to the work, where money, risk, and operating choices are already present?
The weekly notes might show us where the wider role is already present. Perhaps the more useful discovery is what they leave blank: a commercial unit, a budget, or a risk decision we have not yet been close to.
Does this missing rung feel familiar? Or have you found a way past it? Reply to share your experience. We’d like to investigate further.
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