Programme Communications Consultant

Aegon; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension

Discretionary bonus

Annual car allowance

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Critical illness cover

Parental leave

Lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Aegon UK is seeking a Programme Communications Consultant to lead colleague communications for a large transformation programme in Edinburgh. This fixed-term role focuses on shaping the communications approach, ensuring colleagues understand changes, implications and actions required, and coordinating across multiple workstreams.

You will create clear, engaging communications for colleagues, managers and leadership, manage approvals, and keep messaging timely and consistent.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in internal communications, change communications or programme communications.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale organisational change or transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leaders and project teams.
• Excellent writing, editing and storytelling skills.
• Experience developing communication strategies and integrated communication plans.
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities and competing stakeholder demands.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Experience in creating communication toolkits, FAQs, manager resources and leadership briefings.
• Confidence working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.

Responsibilities

• Developing and managing the overall Programme communications plan.
• Coordinating communications across multiple programme workstreams.
• Creating colleague, manager and leadership communications.
• Managing approvals and governance across a range of stakeholders.
• Ensuring communications are timely, consistent and colleague focused.
• Supporting key programme milestones.

Skills

Internal communications

Change communications

Programme communications

Stakeholder management

Writing & editing

Storytelling

Communication strategy

Project management

Toolkits & leadership briefings

Prioritization & multitasking

Job description

Location: Edinburgh (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary: A competitive salary from £54,480 - £87,720 depending on the experience you can bring

As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

We're looking for a Programme Communications Consultant to lead colleague communications for a large transformation programme in Aegon UK. This is a fixed-term role to support the delivery of a specific project.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the communications approach for a programme that will impact colleagues across the business. Working with senior leaders, programme teams and stakeholders across different business areas, you'll help ensure colleagues understand what’s changing, what it means for them and what they need to do.

You'll act as the central coordination point for programme communications, bringing together activity from multiple workstreams and turning complex programme information into clear, engaging and actionable communications.

Key Responsibilities:

Developing and managing the overall Programme communications plan.

Coordinating communications across multiple programme workstreams.

Creating colleague, manager and leadership communications.

Managing approvals and governance across a range of stakeholders.

Ensuring communications are timely, consistent and colleague focused.

Supporting key programme milestones.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

Significant experience in internal communications, change communications or programme communications.

Proven experience supporting large-scale organisational change or transformation programmes.

Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leaders and project teams.

Excellent writing, editing and storytelling skills.

Experience developing communication strategies and integrated communication plans.

Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities and competing stakeholder demands.

Strong project management and organisational skills.

Experience in creating communication toolkits, FAQs, manager resources and leadership briefings.

Confidence working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities

What’s in it for you?

We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us).

A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance

Annual car allowance

38 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site .

We're looking for talented individuals who are ready to make a real impact. If you're excited about new challenges and want to work with a collaborative team that values your skills,

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.