Internal Communications Coordinator

About the role
As a Communications Coordinator, you will work with all areas across the business to plan, review, edit and deliver their operational communications to our stores and centres.

You will be a content writing expert who can create simple, clear and effective communications that represent the Tesco brand. You will be confident at working with multiple stakeholders to advise them on our communications principles, branding and voice.

You will be responsible for
- Partner with different stakeholders across the business to ensure we deliver simple, concise and high quality operational communications to our colleagues through the right channels
- Create and deliver daily and weekly publications to store and centre management teams
- Create, edit and deliver communications plans for all projects landing in stores and centres, ensuring all impacts and audiences are considered
- Review and update all reference material for stores on our existing Help site
- Be the trusted expert, supporting stakeholders to understand the right channel of communication and provide specialist expertise to support teams in delivering effective communications
- Ensure our communications meet the agreed branding, tone of voice and expression
- Meet tight deadlines to ensure reactive communications land at the right time
- Have a journalistic approach to communications, ensuring you probe stakeholders and ask the relevant questions to ensure the message has the required impact
- Continually look for how store and centre communications can be simplified and evolve through internal knowledge sharing and best practice
- Have a strong knowledge of the business and keep up-to-date with current and future systems
- Contribute to the team by covering each other’s areas and take the initiative to support team activities
- Follow our business code of conduct and always acting with integrity/due diligence
- Consistently look for ways to improve your own performance and personal development through an active PDP, learning and giving/seeking feedback to continuously improve

You will need
**Experience/Operational skills required**:

- Excellent writing and communications skills
- A strong networker
- Meticulous eye for detail and accuracy
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to use own initiative
- Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
- Stakeholder engagement
- Innovation
- Understanding of operations and structures for stores and distribution centres
- A good understanding of a retail business
- Journalistic approach to communications

About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work These include but aren’t limited to:

- Annual bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus 8 Bank holidays)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues