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Manager, Corporate Communications
NY - Fairport
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Take this opportunity to expand your expertise and build a rewarding career with a growing leader in the exciting beverage alcohol business.

In the last four years alone, Constellation Brands -- a premier global producer and marketer of wine, imported beer and spirits -- has nearly doubled its business to become a $5.2B international powerhouse, and we're now looking for a hard working, self-motivated and innovative communications professional to help further our success.

As Manager of Corporate Communications, you will assist us in creating, enhancing and maintaining Constellation's positive image and reputation with external audiences by supporting our strategic communications platform and objectives, and pursuing external communications opportunities to promote the company's activities with consumers, customers, the news media, communities, trade organizations, investors and financial analysts, and other audiences. You will also play a key role in communicating our corporate social responsibility (CSR)initiatives and many other industry leading activities.

You'll gain exposure to a variety of cross functional and interdisciplinary experiences while enjoying a fulfilling career that also offers:
  • Broad visibility -- you'll regularly interact with all areas of our corporate organization as well as our various operating companies in order to achieve your objectives, and as such, your achievements in this role will be recognized far and wide.
  • Great environment -- we employ an entrepreneurial culture that invites a great deal of innovation and creativity and an interesting mix of both left- and right-brain folks who know how to get the job done, but also understand how to have fun together. The Rochester, N.Y., area, too, offers its share of rewards, including a relaxed community atmosphere, traffic-free roads, great schools, beautiful summers, and easy access to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as skiing, boating, hiking and backpacking.
  • Career advancement -- this position is your "foot in the door" to a rapidly expanding, global organization and will provide you with the visibility and perspective to pursue a choice of growth opportunities, both nationally and globally, depending on your interests and strengths.
  • Excellent compensation -- in addition to a generous salary, you'll become eligible for stock options, our annual bonus plan, a full benefits package (including a company-matched 401k plan), wine allowance and product discounts, and more.

Our Requirements

  • 5+ years experience working in corporate and/or agency public relations, media relations, or a combination of news media and public relations experience (totaling 5 to 7 years of experience) with appropriate levels of responsibilities and results.
  • Excellent writing skills, including narrative text, speechwriting, news releases, Web site content, etc.
  • Internet web-hosting or webmaster experience.
  • Basic understanding of Photoshop.
  • Intermediate to advanced PowerPoint capabilities.
  • Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple projects and achieve results that meet or exceed customer expectations.
  • Ability to manage diverse personalities and engage with all levels of the organization to achieve desired results.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced corporate environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications or English.
  • Ability to travel 3+ times a year.
Preferred, but not required:
  • Proficiency with Excel.
  • Experience in a consumer products industry.
  • Bilingual fluency in Spanish and/or French.

Who We Are

Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ, ASX: CBR), headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer (into the United States) and spirits categories. Constellation is the largest wine company in the world; the largest multi-category supplier of beverage alcohol in the United States and Canada; a leading producer and exporter of wine from Australia, New Zealand and Canada; and both a major producer and independent drinks wholesaler in the United Kingdom.

With more than 250 beverage alcohol brands marketed in nearly 150 countries, Constellation has unequalled breadth, offering consumers their beverage of choice, no matter what the occasion. Since its founding in 1945 as a producer and marketer of wine products, the company has grown through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. In the 1990s, Constellation embarked on its multi-category strategy as a means of achieving a balanced portfolio better able to respond to consumer preferences and to reduce dependency on a single category or geography. This strategy supports stable growth in volume, cash flow, return on invested capital and value.

Globally, Constellation Brands is the largest wine producing company by volume. It is also the third largest U.S. beverage alcohol company based upon retail sales in the food and drug channels. Following the recent join venture between Constellation Brands and Grupo Modelo, our Mexican beer portfolio is the undisputed imported beer leader in the United States, and our North American spirits division ranks among the top in its category.

Today, Constellation Brands has gross sales of more than $5.2 billion annually. It operates more than 60 production facilities, has 9,200 employees worldwide and sells or markets products in North America, South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. For additional information, please visit www.cbrands.com.

More About Your Role

As Manager of Corporate Communications, you'll report to the VP of Corporate Communications and work closely with the Corporate Communications team to support the entire Constellation Brands organization. Your responsibilities will be to:
  • Act as the company's Internet webmaster by:
    • Monitoring and reporting on web site traffic and activity;
    • Identifying functionality and interactivity improvement opportunities;
    • Identifying design improvement opportunities;
    • Conducting ongoing audits of consumer packaged goods (CPG) sites to identify areas for improvement;
    • Posting materials to the site;
    • Interfacing with IT to ensure stability for the site and its content;
    • Attending appropriate conferences and seminars to hone webmaster skills; and
    • Preparing quarterly reports on site user activity.
  • Support our global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts by:
    • Assisting with preparation of quarterly reports on CSR activities;
    • Liaising with Constellation senior management, appropriate operating company personnel and the community affairs team at CBI headquarters to gather information for reports, and circulate reports reviewed and approved by the VP of Corporate Communications;
    • Maintaining and strengthening positive relationships between Constellation Brands, key CBI corporate executives and appropriate operating company representatives in support of all CSR efforts;
    • Managing and executing activities related to maintaining these ongoing relationships; and
    • Maintaining current CSR-related information on the corporate Internet Web site.
  • Act as the company's creative point person for corporate branding purposes (at the direction of the VP and Director of Corporate Communications) by:
    • Managing the design and execution/placement for corporate advertising;
    • Overseeing digital image files, video library, and archived materials;
    • Maintaining updated shared drive files on the corporate computer network together with the department's administrative assistant; and
    • Supporting internal customers with presentation support, such as PowerPoint deck development.
  • Perform project management for departmental responsibilities such as the annual shareholders meeting, annual report, and investor meetings.
  • Exhibit outstanding writing skills while updating materials for the Internet; producing CSR pieces; producing activity/results reports; and preparing proposals and requests for proposals (RFPs).
  • Prepare quarterly measurement reports (in cooperation with the Corporate Communications director and administrative assistant, and using an external data gathering resource) on CBI's qualitative and quantitative communications activities, which will be circulated to management by the VP of Corporate Communications.
One of your key goals for the first year will be to conduct an audit of our web site, identify its primary users and stake holders, and determine precisely what we need to do over the next few years in order to evolve this site into a highly user friendly portal with forward-thinking design, functionality and content that reflects the size, scope and prestige of our global corporation.

Keys to Success

Creativity in this role is, of course, a great asset, as you design everything from ads to PowerPoint presentations, and we hope your services and ideas in this area will provide a source of inspiration to all facets of our organization, ultimately contributing to our image and success as a company in even greater ways. But your success in this role will require much more than creativity; we're also looking for:
  • Accountability -- you'll show that you are a self starter dedicated to achieving results that meet or exceed internal and/or external customer expectations on your own initiative by taking ownership of your objectives, effectively prioritizing and juggling multiple projects, staying on top of our reporting and other tactical requirements, and exhibiting exceptional follow through.
  • Assertiveness -- you'll rely on the information and resources of groups from all over the organization to achieve your objectives, and as such, you must be capable of managing diverse personalities over whom you'll have no direct authority and engaging their cooperation despite the fact that they may be focused on other competing priorities or residing in alternate time zones.
  • Team orientation -- you'll actively support the team effort by maintaining an open line of communication, listening to and embracing others' ideas, understanding your own limitations and seeking assistance as needed, alerting the group to potential issues ahead of time, and professionally representing the organization and department at all times.
  • Adaptability -- ours is a dynamic and fast-paced environment that will require you to remain calm under pressure and maintain a laser-sharp focus during peaks of intense activity.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity, and you meet the required qualifications, we look forward to hearing from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer. EOE M/F/D/V
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