Corporate Communications Analyst (12-Month Interim)

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​Job Description

Our client, a leading global consumer goods firm, has a brand new contract opportunity for a Corporate Communications specialist to join the London-based team on an initial 12-month interim basis.

This role will focus on our client’s Procurement function, supporting with a series of exciting initiatives and projects across internal communications (and employee engagement), change communications, and external communications. A core aspect of this role will be to support with comms events across 400+ geographically dispersed professionals (as well as monthly communication sessions).

This position:

• Has an immediate start

• Offers £190-£205 per day (inside IR35)

• Requires regular in-office attendance (a standard 3 days in-office/2 days remote)

• Is based out of our client’s central London HQ

• Involves two interview stages.

Key Responsibilities

Internal Communications/Employee Engagement

• Proactively support continual employee communication and engagement activity, finding new and innovative ways to bring geographically dispersed people together and fostering an inclusive culture.

• For this, the successful candidate will own the ongoing management and evaluation of our client’s core internal channels, ideally bringing a passion to continually improve and develop these based on audience feedback.

Change Communications

• Support change/change comms leads to develop and delivery change plans to guide employees through change.

• Beyond Procurement, you will represent Procurement on Value Chain Transformation forums and provide programme management and initiative updates.

External Communications

• Collaborate with Corporate Relations teams to champion Procurement across the business, developing key messages and engaging content aligned to our client’s communication strategy.

• Working closely with Corporate Relations, support the development of content and branding for exciting events in the 2024 pipeline, helping build relationships with our client’s suppliers and agency partners. External events include, but are not limited to, ‘Supplier Connect Session’ and ‘Global Supplier Awards’.

• Contribute to the external reporting cycle, identify and prepare external engagement/speaking opportunities and coordinate submissions to external organisations.

Key Requirements

• Min. 2+ years’ experience in Corporate Communications, ideally global experience.

• Ability to work both strategically and tactically, setting the strategy and creating engaging content to execute with pace and agility.

• Proven experience of developing and delivering communications initiatives (ideally on a global scale) and able to demonstrate strong communication skills (verbal, written, multimedia).

• Change communications and/or change management is a big plus.

• Event management in the context of corporate communications is a plus.

• Project management capability is a plus.

• Sector experience in a consumer goods company and/or Procurement function is desirable.