Communications Specialist

Our Corporate Communications team has a Communications Specialist opening for a highly motivated individual that is at the start of their communications career. This role will support external communications through integrated campaigns that highlight Waters’ innovation and impact, including press announcements, media relations, social media, and written and visual content. This exciting opportunity is aimed at creating exposure across public company external communications and building a strong foundation in public relations and social media through hands-on experience. Reporting to the Head of External Communications, this role will have the support of a highly skilled and experienced communications team and our agency partners.

 

We are looking for a proactive and solution-oriented individual who is passionate about storytelling. The candidate must possess a strong interest in and commitment to building a deep knowledge of our business and science, as well as establishing trust and connections across the company. The successful candidate will be strategic, collaborative, driven, curious, creative, detail oriented, and self-directed. The candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, and welcome new ways to optimize our external communications program and outcomes.

• Collaboratively shape public relations narratives that educate and resonate with the general public and key company stakeholders.
  • Disseminate narratives across channels, audiences, and regions to build and sustain awareness for Waters’ innovation and excellence.
  • Initiate relationships across the company to source customer stories and value propositions that reinforce core external messages.
• Create social media content and visual assets that highlight our people, culture, innovations, corporate news, and Waters’ impact on health and well-being.
  • Collaborate with business partners to align social content to corporate strategy and outcomes.
• Approach communications strategies and campaigns with a data-driven lens.
  • Help to shape success metrics for public relations, media relations, and social media programs.
  • Benchmark success with KPIs; leverage data to demonstrate communications impact and optimize current processes and results.
  • Source data to educate business partners on communications best-practices and value.
• Support media outreach, content development, and reporting for our trade media program.
• Bring your own ideas to the table to ensure we connect, inform, and engage our audiences.

• Recent college graduate or early career with up to two years of experience
• Excellent verbal, written, digital, and external communications skills
• Ability to translate complex scientific content into engaging and succinct campaigns for external audiences
• Driven to understand, simplify, and effectively communicate technical information
• Serve as a trusted resource to educate business partners on external communications best-practices and offerings
• Possess a problem-solving, growth-oriented, and collaborative mindset
• Demonstrated ability to wisely prioritize and reprioritize work
• Enthusiasm for integrated, external-facing communications along with the desire to keep pace with new developments
• Appetite for continuous learning and advancement, including surfacing and proposing new ideas to achieve goals
• Exceptional attention to detail across communications and channels

 

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) is a technology innovator serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 65 years. Our technology touches every part of your day. It’s behind the scenes ensuring the purity of the medicines you take, the quality of the products you use, and the safety of the food you eat and water you drink. Through innovations and people, we advance the science and analytical measurement technology that enables our customers to enhance human health and well-being. Together, we accelerate the benefits of pioneering science.

 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

External communications
Public relations
Media relations
Social media
Cross-functional collaboration
Data-driven strategy
Scientific communications
Integrated communications
Detail oriented
Continuous learning
Proactive working style