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Senior Manager, Internal Communications

NRG Energy
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/8/2026
As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

General Summary Of Position

As a key member of the internal communications content team, this role will strategically shape how we bring business stories to life for NRG’s employees. You’ll work with stakeholders across the organization to identify and develop impactful storytelling moments that highlight our people, support our enterprise strategy and champion our company values. You’ll be a primary driver of our internal content strategy and will be expected to develop long- and short-form content in a variety of engaging, creative ways.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

  • Establish and sustain stakeholder relationships across multiple business units to develop a consistent pipeline of high-quality stories and content.
  • Research and write long-form articles for the company intranet.
  • Strategically leverage video and live event opportunities to engage employees.
  • Ensure consistent message alignment across content and channels to effectively support operational priorities and initiatives
  • Learn and manage different communications platforms across email distribution, measurement, project management, internal social communities and more.
  • Measure and report quantifiable communications metrics to enable data-driven decision making.

Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, English, or similar field.
  • 7 years of internal communications experience, ideally in a big company. You know how to take complex topics and effectively communicate them to a large, diverse workforce.

Additional Skills

  • Top-notch writing and storytelling skills.
  • Values collaboration and contributing to a great team culture.
  • Ability to target and personalize messaging – even when your audience is more than 18K people.
  • Well-organized and skilled at project management.
  • Not afraid to be creative and think outside the box.
  • Comfortable managing communications in a matrixed environment where different teams have different needs.
  • Proven experience staying on top of communication trends.

Physical Requirements

  • Regularly required to stand and/or sit for extended periods of time
  • Regularly required to use a computer to communicate via online channels
  • Minimal domestic travel is required – approximately 20%
  • Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand

Working Conditions

  • Open Office Environment – Primary Work Location in Houston, TX
  • Hybrid work schedule, 4 days in office, 1 day remote work
  • Reports to the Corporate Communications function

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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