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Head of Brand, Communications, and Events

Thomson Reuters
$268,000 USD - $402,000 USD
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, Michigan, Ann Arbor
May 15, 2026

The Head of Brand, Communications, and Events is a senior enterprise leader responsible for stewarding, evolving, and activating the Thomson Reuters brand globally. This role owns brand strategy and execution, enterprise thought leadership, internal and external communications, and events-ensuring a cohesive, differentiated, and trusted presence across every audience and touchpoint.

As a strategic partner to the CMCO and executive leadership team, this leader will translate enterprise strategy, subjectmatter expertise, and market insight into compelling narratives that reinforce Thomson Reuters' purpose, values, and position as a global authority on law, tax, accounting, trade, risk, and the rule of law. The role balances longterm brand and reputation stewardship with operational excellence, shaping how Thomson Reuters shows up as a trusted thought leader in a rapidly changing world.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Head of Brand, Communication, and Events,you will:

Enterprise Brand Strategy & Governance

  • Define and evolve the global Thomson Reuters brand strategy to support enterprise growth, transformation, and longterm market leadership.

  • Serve as steward of brand purpose, positioning, voice, and visual identity across all businesses, platforms, and regions.

  • Establish and enforce brand governance, standards, and measurement to ensure consistency while enabling flexibility for business and regional needs.

  • Partner closely with across functions to align brand strategy with enterprise priorities and customer experience.

Thought Leadership

  • Own the enterprise thought leadership strategy, positioning Thomson Reuters as a trusted, authoritative voice on the most critical legal, regulatory, economic, and societal issues impacting professionals and institutions globally.

  • Provide enterprise leadership and strategic direction for the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI), ensuring its research, insights, and programming are aligned with brand strategy, reputation priorities, and enterprise narratives.

  • Translate deep subjectmatter expertise, proprietary data, and insights-including TRI research and analysis-into clear, compelling thought leadership across reports, thought leadership publications, executive POVs, media engagement, digital platforms, and events.

  • Ensure thought leadership is tightly integrated across brand, communications, marketing, and events-reinforcing credibility, trust, differentiation, and commercial relevance.

  • Partner with TRI leadership, subjectmatter experts, product leaders, and external stakeholders to amplify Thomson Reuters' intellectual capital in consistent, highimpact ways.

  • Set standards and measures for quality, relevance, and impact of enterprise thought leadership, including TRI outputs, ensuring it advances brand trust, reputation, and business outcomes.

Internal & External Communications

  • Lead enterprisewide communications strategy, integrating external communications, internal communications, executive communications, and change communications into a unified narrative.

  • Ensure Thomson Reuters' story is consistently told across media, employees, customers, partners, and other key stakeholders.

  • Oversee executive thought leadership, positioning, and messaging in partnership with the CMCO, CEO, and senior leadership team.

  • Drive highimpact communication during moments of change, transformation, and market disruption to build trust, alignment, and engagement.

  • Partner closely with Corporate Affairs, Investor Relations, HR, and Legal to ensure credibility, governance, and risk management.

Global Events Strategy & Execution

  • Own enterprise strategy for all Thomson Reuters events-internal and external-including flagship events, customer conferences, thought leadership forums, trade shows, executive convenings, and employee experiences.

  • Ensure events are an extension of the brand and thought leadership strategy, delivering meaningful content, insight, and engagement aligned to strategic priorities.

  • Drive innovation in event experiences (digital, hybrid, and inperson) that elevate Thomson Reuters' influence and authority.

  • Establish clear ROI, experience standards, and strategic measurement across the global events portfolio.

Leadership & Enterprise Influence

  • Build and lead a highperforming, globally distributed organization spanning brand, communications, thought leadership, and events.

  • Act as a trusted advisor to the CMCO, CEO, and executive leadership team on brand, narrative, reputation, and positioning.

  • Operate with a strong enterprise mindset-balancing centralized leadership with empowered business and regional partnership.

  • Foster deep collaboration across Marketing, Product, Editorial, Sales, HR, Legal, and Corporate Affairs.

Success Measures

  • Strength and consistency of global brand positioning

  • Impact, reach, and credibility of enterprise thought leadership

  • Brand trust, reputation, and engagement metrics

  • Effectiveness of internal and external communications

  • Strategic impact and ROI of enterprise events

  • Leadership effectiveness, talent development, and team engagement

About You

You're a fit for the role of Head of Brand, Communications, and Events if your background includes:

  • 15+ years of senior leadership experience across brand, communications, thought leadership, and/or corporate marketing in a complex, global organization.

  • Proven experience positioning organizations or leaders as trusted authorities in their markets.

  • Executive presence with experience partnering directly with Csuite leaders and boards.

  • Deep understanding of brand stewardship, narrative development, and reputation management.

  • Strong people leader with experience building and leading diverse, highperforming global teams.

  • Experience in informationdriven, professional services, media, or regulated industries strongly preferred.

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What's in it For You?

  • Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

  • Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

  • Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

  • Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

  • Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

  • Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $268,000 USD - $402,000 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department atHR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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