Wellbeing and Engagement Manager
Job Introduction
Today's employees are accustomed to fluid, flexible and finely tuned consumer experiences that enrich and enhance their everyday lives. They expect to work in an environment that engages, motivates, and inspires them.
Our vision is to create an employee experience that enables our people to belong, act and thrive. This is our promise and we’re recruiting a Wellbeing and Engagement Manager to help us deliver that promise.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about health and wellbeing, employee engagement and developing people so they can be the best possible version of themselves at work.
This position would suit someone who has some HR knowledge and experience, but the most important thing is being able to translate the people strategy into tangible actions with demonstratable impact on our people.
Role Responsibility
In this position, you’ll report to the Head of Change, Employee Experience & People Performance and will support the design and delivery of employee experience solutions. You’ll typically spend your time:
- Planning and executing a global employee engagement survey
- Deploying a new engagement solution
- Managing health and wellbeing service lines, including 3rd parties
- Building and executing communications strategies to deliver employee experience solutions to the organisation
- Leading stakeholder engagement groups
- Project managing delivery of tactical and strategic employee experience solutions
- Influencing the wider HR Services community on topics relating to the employee experience
- Supporting delivery of talent and performance solutions
The Ideal Candidate
To be successful, this is what we think you’ll need. If you don’t meet all the criteria, don’t be put off. We still want to hear from you, even if you’re around 70% of the way there:
- Demonstratable project management experience
- Experience of digital communications channels to deliver messages to target audiences
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Organizational and time management skills
- Good initiative, self-motivated and results-oriented
- Highly collaborative and open to listening to other people’s views
- Ability to use discretion, exercise good judgment and resourcefulness, tact, diplomacy and maintain strict confidentiality
- Strong communication, networking, observational and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrable expertise and technical ability in designing and implementing employee engagement programmes or communications campaigns and building leadership capability in this space
- Understanding of employee engagement survey methodology, market research and planning techniques
- Experience of change management within a people setting
Package Description
Up to £40,000 + bonus + benefits
This position is initially offered on a 1-year fixed-term contract
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
