Communications & Engagement Coordinator

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and Take your next step with Samworth Brothers become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
- Onsite role

**The Opportunity**

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Communications and Engagement Coordinator to join our team here at Walkers Deli & Sausage. In this role You will be responsible for all company communication, engagement and charity and social activities across the site. Including the delivery of communications to a high standard, using a variety of channels that represents the demographic of colleagues within our business. to be successful in this role you will have strong coaching and influencing skills with the ability to create and sustain excellent relationships with diverse stakeholders.
- Project manage the implementation of communication events on the agreed communication calendar.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance internal and external communication through technology, new or improved channels, presentation and content.
- Create and sustain an annual activity plan which engages all employees including organising whole site events e.g. Director’s briefing, Christmas activities, end of year celebration and long-service awards.
- Ensure all established communication channels are updated regularly including notice boards and TVs.
- Take ownership of the site Internal Communications, from providing content for the Samworth Standard, delivering quarterly Pig Issue newspapers and weekly site briefs, to ad hoc and practical communications.
- Lead on site Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) encompassing all voluntary and charity activity, through a Charity & Social Committee, to engage employees at all levels in the business for the benefit of our local communities.- Experience in internal communications is essential
- Event planning experience and proven planning and organisation skills
- Experience of creating and implementing communication plans.
- Innovative thinking ability, having a good judgement about which creative ideas and suggestions will work.
- Ability to convince and influence stakeholders at different levels.
- Ability to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles, to ensure messages have the desired effect.
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to write for different audiences and utilising different media.
- Knowledge of business-focused communications solutions where the output matches both business culture and stakeholder expectations.
- A good understanding of how to communicate with a diverse and hard to reach workforce.
- Experience and insight into the key drivers of internal engagement.

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._