Assistant Strategic Communications Program Manager

Assistant Strategic Communications Program Manager

The Assistant Strategic Communications Program Manager supports enterprise manufacturing communications initiatives by driving program readiness, adoption, and execution across U.S. manufacturing plants. This role serves as a central connector between Communications, HR, IT, and manufacturing stakeholders, ensuring initiatives are well-coordinated, operationally sound, and embedded into plant routines and culture. Operating with a high degree of independence and judgment, this role acts as a strategic extension of the program lead translating direction into action, anticipating needs, managing complexity, and delivering high-quality outcomes across multiple, concurrent workstreams. This includes leading execution for the rollout and adoption of WorkJam, GM's digital platform for manufacturing employee communications and engagement, while also flexing to support additional strategic communications programs as priorities evolve.

Key Responsibilities :

• Drive plant-level readiness and adoption efforts for manufacturing communications initiatives, including WorkJam, by aligning people, process, and technology
• Lead readiness planning across sites, maintaining launch health indicators (e.g., red / yellow / green status), tracking dependencies, and proactively identifying risks
• Translate program strategy into actionable change management and adoption plans that resonate with frontline employees, plant leadership, and functional partners
• Partner closely with HR and IT to support workforce alignment, onboarding readiness, training coordination, and sustained adoption through communication and reinforcement
• Establish and maintain feedback loops to surface plant-level insights, identify issues, and inform continuous improvement
• Develop and maintain scalable toolkits, templates, and communication frameworks to enable consistent rollout and execution across locations
• Manage program operations, including meeting cadence, agendas, documentation, decision logs, reporting, and stakeholder alignment
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors to ensure timely delivery of launch materials and program milestones
• Serve as a resource to colleagues by sharing best practices, templates, and guidance across manufacturing communications initiatives
• Contribute to additional strategic communications programs and workstreams as priorities evolve

Skills & Capabilities :

Required Qualifications :

Preferred (Not Required) Qualifications :

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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