Strategic Alignment Specialist

**Company Description**
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. As the global leader in the food service industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us.
From drive thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

**Serve**: We put our customers and our people first
**Inclusion**: We open our doors to everyone
**Integrity**: We do the right thing
**Community**: We are good neighbours
**Family**: We get better together

The IDL Global Tech Strategic Alignment Specialist will play a key role in supporting the execution of engagement and alignment strategies and ensuring consistent messaging across various channels. This position requires a strong attention to detail, hands-on approach, strong organizational skills, a creative mind and the ability to collaborate effective with cross-functional teams across various timezones.

**Areas of focus**:

- Develop and produce engaging content for various communication channels and ensure content is aligned with brand guidelines and conveys key messages effectively.
- Work closely with Segment and Solution teams to gather information and insights and pull together the team’s key achievements for communication initiatives such as Newsletters, Townhalls, Webinars etc.
- Work closely with the Senior Manager to implement communication plans and strategies.
- Ensuring alignment and consistency of messaging
- Maintain and update the IDL Global Tech Intranet and content repository.
- Oversee and maintain the IDL Global Tech and Segment mailing lists, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Manage and update organizational charts to reflect changes in personnel, departments, and reporting structures.
- Maintain and coordinate the IDL Global Tech team calendar
- Craft compelling and engaging stories in a clear and concise manner to captivate and connect with diverse audiences (e.g. People News, Newsletters)
- Support the Strategic Alignment Lead to drive creative strategies and synthesise complex technical knowledge into Business Language, executed in creative ways to the right stakeholders

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, or a related field.
- 3-5years of experience in communications, content creation, storytelling or a related role.
- Adept at crafting compelling and engaging stories through various mediums, demonstrating a deep understanding of how to captivate and connect with diverse audiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on composing clear and concise messages with the ability to weave narratives into communication strategies
- Strong attention to detail with excellent organizational skills
- Collaborative mindset, able to work effectively with cross-functional teams, understanding that storytelling is a collaborative effort that requires input from various perspectives.
- Previous experience with a communications agency is advantageous, providing an opportunity to leverage creative storytelling techniques in diverse settings.

**Additional Information**
**_
At McDonald’s we are People from all Walks of Life..._**

**People are at the heart of everything we do**, and they make the McDonald’s experience. **We embrace diversity **and are** committed to creating an inclusive culture** that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We **do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind**. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, **helping to develop skills and drive aspirations** that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald’s or elsewhere.”