Internal Communications Manager

Abbott; Oxford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Abbott Diabetes Care in Witney, Oxfordshire, is hiring an Internal Communications Manager to drive the site's communications strategy and employee experience. You will partner with senior stakeholders, manage multiple projects, and ensure messages align with the site’s priorities across global platforms.

The role requires a strong background in internal communications within manufacturing or corporate settings, exceptional writing and storytelling skills, and the ability to create engaging

Qualifications

• Experience delivering internal communications in a corporate or manufacturing environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience supporting senior stakeholders and working with confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the Witney internal communications strategy, ensuring consistent and effective communication across the site.
• Create engaging communication materials including newsletters, videos, digital content, corridor displays and printed literature.
• Facilitate the sharing of site success stories and achievements across Abbott Diabetes Care, Abbott UK and global communications platforms.
• Partner with project teams and business functions to develop communication plans for new initiatives, policies and programmes.
• Support employee engagement initiatives and help deliver a positive employee experience across the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding activities.
• Maintain and continuously improve communication channels, information management tools and SharePoint resources.
• Develop dashboards, metrics and reporting to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of communications and business support activities.
• Coordinate and support site-wide projects, events and engagement activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance efficiencies and deliver cost-saving initiatives.

Skills

Internal communications

Project management

Stakeholder management

Content creation

Multilingual communication

Tools

SharePoint

Job description

communications, employee engagement activities, business support initiatives, and key site projects. Acting as a central point of coordination across the site, you will work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure employees are informed, engaged and connected to the site’s strategy, achievements and priorities. The successful candidate will bring a strong communications background, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities within a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of the Witney internal communications strategy, ensuring consistent and effective communication across the site.
• Create engaging communication materials including newsletters, videos, digital content, corridor displays and printed literature.
• Facilitate the sharing of site success stories and achievements across Abbott Diabetes Care, Abbott UK and global communications platforms.
• Partner with project teams and business functions to develop communication plans for new initiatives, policies and programmes.
• Support employee engagement initiatives and help deliver a positive employee experience across the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding activities.
• Maintain and continuously improve communication channels, information management tools and SharePoint resources.
• Develop dashboards, metrics and reporting to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of communications and business support activities.
• Coordinate and support site-wide projects, events and engagement activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance efficiencies and deliver cost-saving initiatives.

To Be Successful, You Will Have

• Experience developing and delivering internal communications within a corporate or manufacturing environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences.
• Experience, creating engaging communication content across a variety of platforms and formats, Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience supporting senior stakeholders and working with confidential information.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the confidence to work independently.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes.

Why Abbott?

Abbott offers a benefits platform that provides security to you and your family. As you'd expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, subsidized canteen and a flexible benefits scheme. Here at Witney, we also like to help our employees live life to the fullest, and therefore we offer a range of optional initiatives for you to get involved in, including local community STEM outreach, yoga and more!

Skills

internal communicationsproject managementemployee engagementstakeholder managementcontent creationsharepointdashboard developmentreportinginformation managementprocess improvementwritten communicationverbal communicationorganisational skillsmedia relationsevent coordinationonboarding supportconfidential information handlingbusiness supportmultilingual communication

Job Details

Job ID: 31157640

Company: Abbott Laboratories

Location: United Kingdom - Witney

Job Type: Full time

Category: Business Support

Industry: Healthcare

Posted Date: 2026-09-07

Internal Communications Manager

Location: Witney

Abbott Diabetes Care

With a track record of innovation and development, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops and manufactures leading-edge glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. We have a Global Centre of Excellence for Medical Devices based in Witney, Oxfordshire. The site manufactures significant volumes of test strips annually and has also been instrumental in the research, development and manufacture of the FreeStyle Libre portfolio of glucose monitoring systems, transforming the lives of millions of people worldwide.

The OpportunityWe have an exciting opportunity for an Internal Communications Manager to join our manufacturing and R&D facility in Witney, Oxfordshire. This is a varied and highly visible role, responsible for driving internal