Senior Employee Communications Manager, Group Functions (Finance & Risk)

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We’re recruiting for a Senior Employee Communications Manager, Group Functions (Finance & Risk)  to join us. 

What You’Ll Be Doing:

• Define and deliver communications strategies for Risk and Finance that engage employees within the functions, L&G’s broader Risk and Finance communities, and Group-wide employees – with a focus on how we’re creating a growing, simpler, better-connected L&G through our approach to operationalising L&G’s strategy.
• Act as business partner to senior leaders in our Risk and Finance functions, providing strategic counsel and advice to build employee confidence in  these functions, support strategic and transformation goals, and build trust and credibility in the  leadership during a period of organisational change in line with company strategy.
• Work autonomously with a wide group of stakeholders across our Risk and Finance functions, challenging positively to deliver the right outcomes through business partnering, and deliver at pace communications plans and content that support existing and emerging needs as required by the business.
• Take the lead on high quality content development (e.g. copywriting, script writing), stakeholder engagement and delivery of events to support the delivery of Risk and Finance communications plans and requirements, relevant to multiple employee audiences.
• Work collaboratively with Employee Communications colleagues to ensure communications plans and content for Risk and Finance functions are developed in sight of Group-wide plans and narratives, and that colleagues understand how Risk and Finance priorities ladder up to L&G’s strategy.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to improve employee communications, including channel management, planning and evaluation, working closely with colleagues in Employee Communications to deliver improvements that ensure greater employee engagement and understanding of Risk and Finance priorities.
• Ensure communications are reviewed and approved by individuals who have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and expertise, and that such approval is recorded.

Qualifications

Who We’Re Looking For:

• CIPR / IOIC/ CIM or equivalent demonstrable experience required.
• Significant knowledge of employee communications and change communications strategies
• Significant knowledge of developing different types of content (written, video, graphic) and designing and delivering internal events.
• Excellent copywriter, knowledge of messaging development and crafting engaging narratives for employees.
• Knowledge of Finance and Risk functions preferred.
• Able to work autonomously and on own initiative to propose solutions and collaborate with others to deliver to deadline.
• Significant experience working with senior leaders in a complex and fast-paced environment. 
• Previous experience working in complex regulated organisations, ideally in FS.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build strong connections and relationships across the organisation to ensure connectivity and co-ordination across all communications plans and activities.
• Well-organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to take ownership of agreed communications activities and deliver against objectives.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment and remain composed in the face of multiple projects and tight deadlines.
• Ability to think creatively about solutions to communications challenges.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.