Internal Communications Manager

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Job Family: Internal & External Communications

Location:
Porto, PT,
Amsterdam (Schiphol), NL, 118CL
Monaco, MC

Description:
Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

• As Internal Communications Department Manager, you will lead the development and execution of internal communication strategies that foster employee engagement, cascade corporate strategy, drive organizational alignment, and support business implementation at country level. You will ensure that corporate messaging is clear, consistent, and aligned with the company’s values and objectives, enabling employees to connect with the organization’s purpose and priorities. You will manage a team dedicated to delivering impactful communications across all internal channels and collaborate on a mixternal content strategy with the External Communications Manager for Corporate, Country, and Employee communications.

Responsibilities

Scope of Leadership

• Internal Communications Strategy: Define and evolve the internal communications roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and transformation goals.
• Employer Branding: Activate and promote the company’s EVP through campaigns, leadership messaging, and recruitment marketing.
• Team Management: Lead and develop a team of regional and internal communications professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Messaging: Develop and implement messaging frameworks that support strategic planning, change initiatives, organizational culture, and leadership communications across functions and countries.
• Channel Management: Oversee the management and optimization of internal communication channels (e.g., intranet, town halls, digital platforms) to ensure timely and effective information flow.
• Content Creation: Lead the creation and curation of high-impact content that informs, inspires, and connects employees and local stakeholders across the organization.
• Insight Generation: Utilize analytics and feedback tools to measure the effectiveness of internal communications and inform continuous improvement.
• Change Support: Partner with the Culture & Change team, leadership, and business units to support transformation initiatives with tailored communication strategies.
• Governance & Alignment: Maintain oversight of internal communication plans across functions and geographies, ensuring consistency and strategic alignment.
• Employee Voice: Champion a culture of employee expression and listening by facilitating sentiment and feedback loops, ensuring employee insights inform integrated employee communication strategies - including EVP activation- that reinforce our employer brand and its alignment with the overarching company brand.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field.

Experience

• 5+ years in internal communications, employee engagement, or organizational change.
• Proven leadership in cross-functional environments and experience managing communications teams.
• Strong expertise in content development, channel management, and communications analytics.

Functional Competencies

Strategic engagement People engagement Analytics and reporting Content Management Business Partnering Business Acumen

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investmen