Senior Communications Consultant

**Job Type**:Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

**Location**:This role could be based in our Edinburgh, Wythall, London or Telford offices. This will be hybrid-based with a requirement to travel, working in the office (2 days a week when not travelling) and from home.

**Flexible working**:All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

**Salary and benefits**:c£37,000 depending on experience plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Within Phoenix Group, we have an incredible opportunity to work on our Standard Life brand, as a Communication Consultant joining our Financial Education and Employee Engagement team.

**Who are we?**

We want to be the best place that any of our 7,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

**The role**

This role supports our iconic Standard Life brand and is at the forefront of delivering on our ambitious plans. You will support the delivery of member presentations both online and offline alongside developing innovative communication strategies to support and engage workplace members with their financial wellbeing and retirement savings. and communication deliverables which protect and enhance our corporate brand and reputation.

If you have a drive to educate and engage our workplace members with their company pension, then this is an opportunity you don't want to miss. The role involves UK travel for face-to-face presentations, working alongside the Standard Life Master Trust and developing and elivering and we also offer many other online events too.

Key Responsibilities
- Deliver member presentations in an engaging and informative way to to our workplace clients/members that supports overall engagement strategies
- Proactively contribute to projects as an engaged project member and guide smaller projects to successfully deliver communication outcomes
- Continually review methods, processes, and practices so that the highest quality of deliverables is maintained
- Building relationships and influencing within the function and across the wider business
- Balancing workload in the context of changing priorities as business requests arise
- Understanding when to refer issues or seek guidance from peers
- Able to exercise own judgement, within the remit of the relevant communication, as to how the communication should be written, signed off and published

What are we looking for?

Essential:

- Knowledge of workplace savings products preferred
- Financial Service industry experience
- Presentation skills to clients and end consumers (members)
- Stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work to deadlines and produce quality outputs
- A willingness to travel

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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