Internal Communications Manager

ABOUT PUBLICIS GROUPE:

Publicis Groupe UK is a marketing and digital transformation business, with 7,500 people working across 30 companies. The agencies include Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo UK, Publicis Sapient, Zenith, Starcom, Digitas, MSL, Taylor Herring and Epsilon. Around the world, Publicis Groupe has operations in more than 100 countries employing more than 108,000 people.

THE SPIRIT OF VIVA LA DIFFERENCE

Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.

Overview

We're looking for an internal communications manager to join us to help us plan and deliver outstanding internal communications for Publicis Groupe UK. You can expect a role that is fast-paced, full of variety and often challenging. You will play a central day-to-day role in connecting the different areas of our business, working closely with our talent team to share our initiatives, news and events, bringing them to life for our people through a variety of internal communications. You are an experienced communicator, preferably with a journalistic or copywriting background, with a track record of delivering an editorial or communications strategy to engage readers. You are highly organised, used to working in an ever-changing and fast-paced environment, always looking to improve systems and find new ways to do things, have meticulous attention to detail and enjoy working as part of a team of a wider communications team. You will need to be comfortable and confident dealing with senior stakeholders including the Chief Talent Officer (CTO).

Key responsibilities
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• Working closely with our Head of Communications, manage our internal communications strategy and plan, proactively driving internal campaigns and initiatives.
• Organise townhalls for our employees, overseeing the set-up and the agenda and content.
• Manage our internal communications cascade process.
• Work with the wider communications team developing content for the LinkedIn leadership programme.
• Develop all-employee updates from the CTO and other senior stakeholders as required.
• Write copy and work with a variety of stakeholders to produce our regular internal newsletters.
• Produce content and update the UK pages on our AI content platform, Marcel.
• Work with a variety of stakeholders to maintain databases and materials needed for internal communications.
• Align all our internal communications with our internal key messaging and regularly update our Q&As.
• Act as a connector within the business, building close working relationships with stakeholders across all disciplines and agencies.

Experience

• You are a journalist, copywriter or communications professional, ideally with experience in a matrixed organisation.
• You're a great communicator and collaborator.
• You have excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills, including the ability to source and craft stories from a range of sources and stakeholders.
• Be familiar with using a variety of content management systems.
• You are clear, direct, and understand how to adapt communications both written and verbal depending on your audience.
• Organised and scrupulous about meeting deadlines.
• Able to develop rapport, trust and great working relationships with all colleagues in a complex work environment.
• Engaging, positive with an infectious enthusiasm, someone that people naturally gravitate to, want to be around and work with.
• Flexible, at home in a fast-paced environment with the ability to think on your feet, work in an agile manner and adapt to changing requests.

Additional Information

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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