Job Description

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately 13,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2025 revenue of approximately $8.8 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.

Responsibilities

This position is based in Kingsport, Tennessee and will report to the Director, Corporate Communications as a member of the global Corporate Communications team. This position plays a key role in driving the department’s initiatives and projects with efficiency and speed while providing overall communications support at a strategic, tactical, and operational level. This role impacts all areas of the company working with internal team members and external stakeholders. This is a global role, requiring a global mindset and a natural tendency to interface successfully across time zones and cultures.

This role includes both internal and external communications, media relations, crisis communications and issues management communications. This requires building relationships with key internal clients and senior management, understanding the company's business strategy, providing counsel and direction for communications strategies, developing communications plans, implementing those plans, and evaluating results. This person must be able to think and contribute on a strategic level, versus relying on tactical execution and direction from others.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, who is results-oriented and possesses extraordinary verbal and written communication skills. Candidates should demonstrate a can-do attitude, the ability to think critically, and a solutions-oriented approach to problem solving. Being able to take complex material and distill it to easily digestible and understandable information is an extremely important aspect of this role.

• Create communications materials including, but not limited to, integrated and comprehensive communications strategies, including talking points, communications toolkits, email communications, Powerpoint presentations, internal articles, social media posts, news releases, media kits, and media monitoring reports
• Research, plan, implement and evaluate communications strategies to show progress and opportunities for growth/change
• Manage and execute weekly global corporate newsletter
• Manage corporate news release distribution
• Maintain corporate brand standards to ensure a positive and cohesive corporate image through various collateral materials, employee communications, internal publications, web sites and social media
• Engage and collaborate with external public relations and communications resources (agencies, contractors, partner companies and organizations, etc.)
• Develop, collaborate and maintain relationships with key internal partners and decision-makers, corporate functions, employee resource groups, media/external communicators and others

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, with emphasis in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing communications or a related discipline
• 3+ years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, marketing communications, or related field
• Demonstrated excellence in verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated abilities in creating communications strategies including research, planning, implementation and evaluation
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects at once
• Demonstrated experience leading and contributing to projects and collaborating at all levels of an organization
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity and confidentiality
• Demonstrated experience in crisis communications
• Demonstrated competency in Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, Teams and Excel)

Preferred Experience

• Adobe Suite expertise
• Demonstrated experience producing video content
• Prior experience working for a Fortune 500 or publicly-traded company
• Prior experience working in news media
• Prior experience working with an Eastman business organization

NOTE

Eastman will not accept applicants for this offered position who require visa sponsorship, including those whose status is F-1 visa OPT who subsequently would require ongoing visa sponsorship.

Eastman is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a highly engaged workforce, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.