Communications and Engagement Lead

1 week ago

Appleby Magna, United Kingdom Unipart Logistics Full time

**Location**: Mercia Park - Appleby Magna (DE12 8AA)
**Contract type**: Full time, Permanent
**Hours**: 40 hours per week
**Salary**: £35,000 plus 30 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

**About the Job**

Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You'll have an important part to play in automotive success that spans nearly 50 years. Unipart Logistics (UL) has secured a contract to run the new, custom-built Jaguar Land Rover Global Parts Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire. The operation is housed at Jaguar Land Rover's new Mercia Park campus, one of the largest UK warehouse developments for a single customer. We would like you to join us to support our comms and engagement activity.

Here at Unipart we don't just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's 'From Gate to Great' training and development program.

As a Communications and Engagement Lead, you maintain a regular drumbeat of communications and activities in all areas of the campus, including CR events, newsletters, posters, digital screens, leadership events and more. This is a fast paced, hands-on site role, managing and delivering brilliantly effective communications programmes and employee engagement activities that support the needs of Mercia Park, through its start-up phase and beyond.

**As part of your key responsibilities you'll**:

- Create engaging and effective communication campaigns
- Evaluate and measure communication channels and activities to assess effectiveness, always striving to ensure that communications reach and engage the audiences they are intended for and have impact
- Create and co-ordinate a network of Comms and Engagement champions
- Work closely with HR and Operations teams to support the organisation and delivery of employee engagement activities
- Undertake specific project work aligned to internal communications and engagement activity
- Ensure that the Mercia campus site looks and feels like a Unipart site - establishing and maintaining effective visuals and the correct Unipart branding throughout
- Work with the training team when onboarding new leaders and colleagues so that they are welcomed into the business effectively, and leaders are given a full understanding of their responsibilities with team communications
- Support the development of wider communications regarding Mercia achievements into Unipart Logistics and Group channels where appropriate
- Work with Unipart teams and partners that manage external and social media content, supplying them with engaging visual and written content

**About You**
- Experience in a site communication or similar role
- Be excited by change and the opportunity to make a difference, with a proactive 'can do' attitude
- Effective interpersonal, management and communication skills at all levels
- Ability to write and present clear and concise professional communications
- Creative flair when creating content such as posters, videos, social media posts
- Ability to create online content on Google platforms
- Confident and articulate, with excellent listening skills
- Excellent planning and organisation skills to be able to meet deadlines
- Technically adept and able to use Microsoft Windows, Excel, Power Point, Word etc

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may also have experience in the following: Communications Manager, Engagement Specialist, Public Relations Lead, Branding and Outreach Manager, Community Engagement Coordinator, Marketing and Communications Lead, Stakeholder Relations Manager, Digital Communications Strategist, Public Affairs Coordinator, Internal Communications Specialist, Media Relations Manager, Corporate Communications Lead, Social Media and Engagement Coordinator, etc.

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