Employee Communications Manager

Balfour Beatty; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering firm is seeking an Employee Communications Manager to craft and deliver communication strategies for various stakeholders. You will work collaboratively with senior leaders to ensure messaging aligns with corporate objectives, oversee management of internal communications channels, and support events and campaigns. The role offers the flexibility of hybrid working within a dynamic team in Greater London, with a focus on enhancing internal engagement and strategic communications.

Benefits

Smart working policies

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience operating effectively in complex organizational structures.
• Clean driving license and willingness to travel as required.
• Experience using platforms like Poppulo or Staffbase is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver impactful communication strategies for Enabling Functions.
• Oversee day-to-day management of Employee Communications channels.
• Draft communications messaging for senior leaders.

Skills

Excellent communication craft skills

Strong relationship building

Strong copywriting capability

Adapts positively to changing business demands

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, public relations, communications or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

SharePoint

Viva Engage

Job description

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About the role

The opportunity to create is all around you. Whatever your level, whatever your role, whatever the project, you'll be able to take initiative here and get stuck in. Join our Balfour Beatty team as a Employee Communications Manager and shape something special.

Role Purpose

To provide mid to senior level communications advice and to work with Enabling Function leaders and teams to enable development and delivery of effective employee communications to identified audiences.

This is a Hybrid role

What you'll be doing

• Set, deliver and measure creative, clear and impactful communication strategies for Enabling Functions to reach a wide range of internal stakeholders
• Provide advice and support on all communications issues
• Work with senior leaders to define messaging and align communications outputs to Enabling Function objectives - ensuring that Enabling Function and corporate messaging is aligned and complementary
• Work collaboratively with, and draw on expertise from, the Group Communications teams to deliver internal and external outputs for Enabling Function teams
• Pro-actively identify potential news stories that can be used across Group channels to enhance Balfour Beatty's strategic positioning and have awareness to flag potential operational issues that could result in reputational risk
• Oversee processes to ensure there is a regular pipeline of content for internal communications channels, ensuring it's on brand, accurate, and signed off by appropriate stakeholders
• Draft and ensure appropriate approvals for senior leader and Enabling Function messaging for use across a range of internal channels.
• Support the end-to-end delivery of UK and Group-wide conferences, events, campaigns and business engagement and/or transformational change programmes
• Work with Enabling Function teams teams to coordinate case studies that highlight key strategic positioning themes such as industry leading capability, sustainability, innovation and engineering expertise
• Maintain tracking and planning tools to capture opportunities across multiple Enabling Functions to ensure successes and milestones are publicised in the most effective way
• Oversee day-to-day management of Employee Communications communication channels, such as the Hub, Balfour Beatty TV, official project and office noticeboard poster sets, and monitor, share and publish updates as required in SharePoint and Viva Engage.

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• Experience of operating effectively in complex organisational structures with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication craft skills and technical knowledge of channel frameworks
• Strong relationship building with good networking and interpersonal skills
• Strong copywriting capability with an eye for what makes a good, engaging story that will appeal across our stakeholder base
• Team player with ability to work with individuals across multiple geographical locations
• Adapts positively to changing business demands
• Good understanding of the regulatory environment and financial calendar communications
• A passion for, and understanding of, industry issues and the national news agenda
• A clean driving licence and willingness to travel as required
• Experience using Microsoft Office 365, particularly Outlook, Teams (Live and Webinar), Viva Engage and SharePoint

Desirable:

• Experience of working on construction/civil engineering infrastructure projects
• Experience using platforms such as Poppulo, Staffbase or similar employee communications email platforms
• An understanding of the regulatory environment in construction
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, public relations, communications or a related field
• Member of CIPR and relevant qualification

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, www.disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]