Coverage/Content – Regions Director / AVP

96 Morgan Stanley UK Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Regional Director/AVP to ensure HR communications are locally relevant and culturally fluent, aligning with enterprise narratives and standards. This role sits in Corporate Communications, shaping messages for employees, Financial Advisors, and Field Management across regions.

You will lead regional HR communications strategy, tailor messages to local contexts, and partner with HR leadership to manage high‑impact moments while ensuring governance and channel guidance

Qualifications

• Typically 5–7 years’ experience in HR and/or employee communications.
• Experience executing communications across at least one major region (e.g., Asia, EMEA, Americas).
• Excellent writing/editing skills and stakeholder management.
• Strong judgment and cultural fluency; ability to balance nuance with clarity.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR communications strategy for assigned regions.
• Tailor global messages for local context while maintaining enterprise consistency.
• Partner with regional HR leadership to plan communications and manage high‑impact moments.
• Ensure regional execution follows governance, standards and channel guidance.
• Surface regional insights to improve enterprise planning and delivery.

Skills

HR communications

Stakeholder mgmt

Cultural fluency

Writing/editing

Job description

We are seeking someone to join our team a Regional Director / AVP to ensure HR communications are locally relevant and culturally fluent - while staying aligned to enterprise narratives and standards. In the Corporate Communications department, we cultivate and protect the Firm’s powerful global brand and reputation, leveraging our resources across media relations, internal communications, philanthropy and digital strategy to ensure we present the Firm consistently in all that we do. This is a Director level position within our Communications Job Family which is primarily responsible for the crafting and development of messages and programs aimed at the firm’s employees overall, as well as the firm’s Financial Advisors and Field Management. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Lead HR communications strategy for assigned regions (Asia, EMEA, Americas).
• Role summary Tailor global messages for local context while maintaining enterprise consistency.
• Partner with regional HR leadership to plan communications and manage high-impact moments.
• Ensure regional execution follows governance, standards and channel guidance.
• Surface regional insights, risks and feedback to improve enterprise planning and delivery.

What you bring (required / preferred):

• Demonstrated expertise working across groups - aligning central teams and regional leaders.
• Typically 5-7 years’ experience in HR and/or employee communications, with proven experience executing communications across at least one major region (e.g., Asia, EMEA, Americas).
• Strong judgment and cultural fluency; ability to balance nuance with clarity.
• Excellent writing/editing skills and stakeholder management.
• A do it right, do it simple, tech-enabled mindset.
• Preferred: HR subject-matter expertise (or proven HR partnership track record).

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements:

If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Flexible work statement

Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.

Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for people, governments and institutions, always with a standard of excellence and guided by our core values.

Morgan Stanley is dedicated to providing first-class service to our clients, in a way that reflects our commitment to creating a more sustainable future and fostering stronger communities around the world. In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.

What We Do

In each line of business, we strive to demonstrate our belief in the power of transformative thinking, innovative strategies and leading-edge solutions—and in the ability of capital to work for the benefit of all society.