People Communications Specialist

**_Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status._**

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At the centre of our UK business, Ocado Logistics is a network of high-tech, fast-paced warehouses, spokes and offices across the country. Our people are at the heart of this, and are devoted to providing a first class service centred entirely around our customers, ensuring they receive the best possible shopping experience.

Communicating with employees in any organisation can be a challenge, but particularly when your workforce is dispersed across multiple locations, and the majority are not desk-based, but instead spend their time out on the road or on the warehouse floor. Whilst our front line teams are working hard to feed the nation, we are busy modernising our communications strategy to continue to improve the people experience.

We have an exciting opportunity for a People Communications Specialist to join our People Experience Team on their journey to find new ways to communicate. As a People Communications Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering the Ocado Logistics communications strategy across the network and will proactively support the internal and external brand, whilst focusing on ways to maximise levels of employee and external applicant engagement across the network

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**What you’ll do**:

- Build relationships and collaborate across Logistics to meet the communications requirements for different Logistics audiences
- Reinforce our culture and tone of voice through consistent communications
- Work closely with the Group Internal Comms team and other Centres of Excellence to utilise their specialist knowledge and ensure our strategies are aligned
- Own, develop and manage a calendar of key Logistics comms messages to ensure consistent, relevant and timely delivery of communication material, and to avoid message conflict
- Day to day management of our communications platforms, including usage reports, updating and ongoing monitoring, and gaining input from other Ocado colleagues as necessary
- Plan and develop high quality communications to brand guidelines (including guiding our creative design colleagues)
- Provide the tools and frameworks to empower managers and other key stakeholders to communicate effectively locally
- Use themes and data from employee listening to inform future communications
- Join the dots with external communications to ensure messaging is aligned
- Suggest new and different ways of working to complement our overall Logistics strategy as we grow

**About you**
- You will have experience of utilising communication platforms in the workplace
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Previous experience working with and / or communicating with non-office based dispersed workforces
- Problem solving and analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data, analyse findings and use this to implement new communication strategies
- Demonstrate the ability to work, communicate, with, and present effectively to people at all levels from hands on operational workforces to senior stakeholders
- Strong organisation skills and ability to prioritise effectively

**About Ocado Group**

When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. 20 years later, we’re a FTSE 100 business developing our own ground breaking technology, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships around the world

Transforming an industry also means transforming the way we do business. As we continually develop new technologies and customer propositions, we’re looking for the brightest talents to lead us into the next stage of our evolution: enhancing our capabilities, inspiring our teams and developing new ways of working.

**Benefits**

**What we offer you**

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately.
- **30 days ‘working from anywhere’ policy**
- **Wellbeing support through Apps such as **Unmind** and an Employee Assistance Programme**
- **25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)**
- **Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)**
- **Private Medical Insurance**
- **22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once rel