Are you an experienced consultant who...

• Can envision and design communication strategies that align with business objectives?
• Knows that delivering high quality employee and corporate communications can transform the way companies and their employees do business?
• Enjoys being "hands-on," providing creative communication that optimizes content to maximize its effectiveness in the online medium?
• Is excited by delivering communications solutions designed to help people work smarter and make better business decisions?
• Is inspired by working in a collaborative environment, consulting with world-class organizations, and helping to lead the portal industry by being the best?

• This position is responsible for developing, defining and implementing communication strategies and tactical deliverables for our client offerings.
• In preparing for this position, the candidate will have worked as a consultant for a minimum of 5 - 7 years
• The role requires knowledge of enterprise portals, intranet, and/or extranet solutions and their value proposition
• The position reports to the Director of Communications from a discipline perspective and the Project Manager from an engagement perspective.

• Develop and define communications strategy for our client offerings
• Envision and design communications approaches that achieve business objectives, establish editorial style, placement and use of content throughout solution, create a personalization approach, etc.
• Define informational structure of enterprise portal and other e-business solutions, based on high-level business objectives, user needs and analysis of existing Web / portal / communications assets
• Collaborate with usability, business analysis and visual design disciplines to develop intuitive user interface that fulfills user needs and business objectives, with an eye towards optimal leveraging of content
• Create all content needed for solution, from section headings to system instructions to comprehensive business process wrappers
• Interface with the client throughout the project to present, review and update all content-related materials
• Support communication needs within LDS: advise/mentor communication team members as necessary; provide consultation as needed to other LDS staff; provide content/editorial support for marketing and other LDS projects, as needed

• Assume responsibility, accountability
• Think critically and creatively
• Display exceptional communication skills: presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.
• Organize and lead teams in accordance with established project initiatives and be able to quickly evaluate alternatives
• Provide project leadership that effects influence with clients, team members, stakeholders and LDS leadership for successful outcomes.

• Minimum – B.S. degree in English, Communications or related field.
• Masters degree preferred.

Location: Morristown, NJ or New York City

Travel: Travel to client sites expected (approximately 30%), trade shows and sales prospects as needed.