Senior Specialist Employee Communications (m/f/d)

Overview

At Clarios, we are producing the world’s best batteries, essential for the evolving future of transportation. Our advanced, low-voltage batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today.

Ready to apply your expertise and drive innovation in Communications at Clarios? Step into a role where your talent shapes the future—join our Communications team today!

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As Senior Specialist Employees Communications (m/f/d) you will be the strategic and operational driver of internal messaging across our EMEA region. This role is pivotal in fostering a connected, informed, and engaged workforce across 11 manufacturing plants and multiple offices.

You will be responsible for ensuring that employees understand and feel aligned with our company’s mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities. You will lead the internal communications function with a strong execution mindset, providing clear direction and support to our network of communication champions. Your role will involve crafting and delivering impactful communications that support business transformation, cultural alignment, leadership visibility, and employee engagement. You will set clear boundaries and frameworks to ensure consistency and quality across all internal channels. With a strong focus on innovation, you will explore and integrate new channels and technologies—including AI—to enhance communication effectiveness and personalization. This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, creative storytelling, operational excellence, and digital fluency.

What you will do

• Build and execute internal communication plans that support business goals, change initiatives, and cultural transformation.
• Ensure clarity and consistency in messaging across all levels of the organization.
• Drive employee engagement through compelling content, campaigns, and feedback mechanisms.
• Lead the communications champions network in EMEA and promote best practice sharing within communication teams (global and cross business unit).
• Support leadership communication, including town halls, video messages, and strategic updates.
• Manage internal channels (e.g., intranet, newsletters, town halls, collaboration platforms) and continuously improve their effectiveness, coordinate or manage events, and create concepts for events that boost employee engagement and recognition.
• Measure impact through analytics and employee feedback, using insights to refine strategies.
• Champion innovation, including the use of AI tools to automate, personalize, and scale communications.

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Business Management, or related field required.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in related positions , preferably in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach and a passion for innovation.
• Ability to set boundaries, manage expectations, and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Adaptable, accountable, excellence integrity and teamwork.
• Strong communication skills, oral and written, in German and English.

What we offer you

As a technology leader with strong brands (i.e. VARTA and OPTIMA), Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:

• Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement and sustainability.
• Arrange your working hours and breaks flexible via our flexible and trust-based working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our mobile work policy and company kindergarten.
• A competitive remuneration package, including additional payments such as holiday, Christmas as well as company pension program.
• Your well-being is very important to us: take advantage of our preventive health care offers such as fitness center, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs.
• Stay fit whilst at the same time positively contributing to our environment: Lease your company bike.
• Our well-advanced onboarding process and buddy program supports you to quickly grow into the position and team. By using the offering in our Internal Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally.
• Last, but not least we support you in relocating and finding a flat in the location surroundings if applicable and depending on individual factors.

You want to learn more about the position and our EMEA region? We invite you to explore our regional information and contact our recruiting team to discuss the role.

About Clarios: Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We work to ensure 100% of our products sold are recyclable, and we recycle 8,000 batteries an hour in our network.

Clarios is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require an accommodation during the application process, please email

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