<p>The Senior Director of Communications, EMEA owns the EMEA communications strategy and regional reputation posture. This is a strategic, enterprise-facing role that advises executive leadership, sets the narrative and risk response for major business moments, and makes cross-market trade-offs across a complex matrix of countries, functions, and global stakeholders. The Senior Director is accountable for direction, prioritization, and outcomes—not day-to-day production.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the EMEA communications strategy, annual priorities, resource allocation, and governance in partnership with the C-suite, regional leadership, and communications.</li> <li>Serve as the principal communications adviser to executive leadership on reputation, risk, transformation, geopolitical developments, and market-sensitive issues; challenge assumptions, recommend choices, and guide leaders through ambiguity.</li> <li>Own EMEA reputation through an integrated strategy spanning corporate, product, financial, internal, executive, and digital communications.</li> <li>Set the principles for translating global strategy into locally credible narratives, balancing consistency with market, language, cultural, and regulatory realities.</li> <li>Set the communications strategy and executive narrative for major organizational change, acquisitions, market entries, crises, leadership transitions, and other high-visibility events.</li> <li>Set the regional media and thought-leadership agenda; approve story platforms, executive positioning, reputation programs, and stakeholder engagement priorities.</li> <li>Own the regional crisis posture and serve as the senior escalation point during high-impact incidents; determine response strategy and align Legal, HR, and business leadership.</li> <li>Direct the regional operating model, including agency strategy, budget, measurement, governance, planning rhythms, quality standards, and resource trade-offs.</li> <li>Build communications leadership capability through coaching, talent planning, succession, and clear role design across the EMEA portfolio.</li> <li>Establish outcome frameworks that connect communications to business priorities and use them to make investment and prioritization decisions.</li> <li>Represent EMEA in global communications planning and ensure regional insight influences enterprise decisions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We’re Looking For:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Typically 12+ years of experience in corporate, agency, public affairs, or executive communications, including a demonstrated record of leadership across multiple markets.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience advising senior executives and leading communications through significant business change.</li> <li>Strong judgment in ambiguous or politically sensitive situations, with the credibility to challenge, simplify, and make decisions at executive level.</li> <li>Proven ability to lead through influence in a matrixed organization and manage directors, agencies, and multi-market programs.</li> <li>Exceptional writing, narrative development, media, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.</li> <li>Experience working across markets and fluency in French or German.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p> </p> <p>Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. </p> <p><strong>Human oversight:</strong> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application. </span></p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Your rights: </strong>If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email <a href="https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f">here</a>. Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated. </p> </li> </ul> <p>Please refer to our<a href="https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice"> Candidate Privacy Notice</a> for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.</p></div>