Employee and Change Communications Manager

Job Introduction

Our Employee & Change Communications team are passionate about delivering measurable and impactful messaging that drives results and the meaningful change through our organisation. We’re looking for an ambitious communications professional to join our team as an Employee & Change Communications Manager.

You’ll establish yourself as the strategic partner to our central leadership teams, using your communications expertise and knowledge to drive the development and delivery of comprehensive communications plans that align to our organisation’s strategies and goals. You’ll collaborate with our central teams to enable them to foster engagement, create audience and measurement focused campaigns whilst developing and implementing campaigns that lead to genuine behaviour change to support our growth ambitions.

You’ll partner with communication colleagues to support employee communications strategies across the region. You’ll be bold with ideas, and you won’t be afraid to think differently!

This is an exciting role as a strategic partner within a socially responsible and diverse organisation. You’ll have the opportunity to lead change communication programmes, support and contribute to the Regional Employee & Change Communications strategy and often deputise for the Employee & Change Communications Director. If you’re ambitious, looking for a professionally challenging and career enhancing role, this might just be the role for you!

This role offers hybrid working, travel to the Salford office for team meetings and collaborative working will be required.
 

Role Responsibility

• Support for the Employee & Change Communications Director and collaboration with segment communications managers to maximise impact of transversal function activities
• Drive employee communication improvements within the transversal function teams/ region
• An understanding across the business of how the transversal functions add value to the segment teams and drive progress towards our regional goals
• Collaborate with the segment communications team to identify best practices, channels and techniques that allow for better sharing and articulation of that value within segments; ensuring segment teams understand the important role played by the transversal functions’ teams
• Drive communications that support measurable and favourable understanding of the Sodexo brand among employees to help increase engagement.

A full job description can be located below

The Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrable experience of developing and executing communications plans within a large complex organisation
• Creative flair to develop engaging communications, exceptional writing and editing skills with good organisational skills
• Previous experience as a communications strategic partner, able to demonstrate relationship building and influencing skills at all levels of an organisation
• Professional or higher qualification in internal communications or corporate communications is highly desirable
• Outstanding communicator with the ability and gravitas to operate at all levels of the business
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage multiple priorities and provide exceptional and independent management of projects and campaigns

Package Description

£45,000 - £50,000 per annum plus benefits and bonus

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process