Senior Internal Communications Manager

Salary national circa £70,000

London circa £80,000

Do you have excellent business partnering skills at all levels of employment and interested with working in a dynamic environment?

We are currently recruiting for a permanent and a 6-month fixed- term Senior Internal Communications Manager to be a part of our Group Employee Communications team and help our people in this business connect to our purpose, live our values, and become advocates for Aviva.

This role could be ideal for you if you’re seeking a new opportunity with the prospect to truly develop your skills and work in a supportive and pioneering team! You will proactively develop, implement, and deliver a dynamic employee communications programme for UK Life, focused on helping people understand the UK & Ireland Life strategy and driving employee engagement by building employee pride and brand advocacy.

A bit about the job:

As the Senior Internal Communications Manager for UK & Ireland Life, you'll report to the Head of UK & Ireland Life Employee Communications, acting as their deputy as needed, working closely to deliver a One Aviva communications approach across the Life business.

You will collaborate with the Employee Communications team to make sure our engagement campaigns, content, channels (including Workvivo, our new employee communications platform) and events drive maximum employee engagement with our people. Along with understanding the latest trends and standard methodology – with a particular focus on enabling two-way conversation and driving employee engagement. Proactively supporting Executive Teams with best-in-class engagement and employee communications support is important for the role. As you'll be their first point of contact and quickly become a trusted adviser, building rapport, taking briefs, and understanding complex issues.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Excellent experience in employee/internal communications – within financial services.

• Be comfortable working with and be highly skilled in providing advice to senior business leaders and adept at building trust quickly and retaining it through time.

• Experience with delivering successful engagement campaigns, overseeing a best-in class channel mix, including digital channels.

• Be an exemplary teammate, at their best when working within a collective to deliver a shared vision. Capable of building relationships fast and inspiring confidence in all around them.

• Enjoy being an inspiring leader of people; able to lead by example and to inspire your team and help with improving their own professional output.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary between circa £70,000 - £80,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Lacey Lane Mckoy a call on 07385425912 or send an email to lacey.lane-mckoy@aviva.com