Employee Communications Manager, Group Functions (GCOO)

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 Manager, Employee Communications – Group Functions (GCOO) to join us.

What you’ll be doing:

• To support the Senior Employee Communications Manager, Group Functions (GCOO), to deliver communication strategies by developing content, creating communications plans, and gathering data and insights to improve the effectiveness of communications.
• Assisting the Senior Employee Communications Manager, Group Functions in delivering plans that engage employees with L&G’s GCOO strategy and build trust in the Leadership Team through employee communications, and events, flexing to support other areas of Group Functions in line with business requirements.
• To support the Senior Manager in the development and delivery of change communications plans to ensure employees understand the reasons for change by drafting clear, consistent content and supporting leaders to communicate.
• To support content creation and digital channel management for GCOO communications strategies, and wider Group Functions plans where needed, working with stakeholders to align messaging with L&G’s narrative and with Employee Communications to ensure appropriate co-ordination with wider activity.
• To support the planning and execution of virtual and in-person events, including developing agendas, speaker notes, presentations, creating and maintaining attendee lists, and developing content, working in collaboration with the L&G events team.
• To work closely with colleagues from across Employee Communications to contribute towards the continuous improvement of the function, including supporting improvements to planning, measurement and evaluation, editorial planning, and information sharing to strengthen cross divisional planning, collaboration, and strong stakeholder relationships.
• Consumer Duty: To design and develop communication assets tailored to target audiences, ensuring clarity, fairness, and compliance with regulatory and data protection requirements.

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Understand the role of employee communications as part of Corporate Affairs, and in wider business strategy.
• Awareness of communications tactics, including content development and channel management.
• Knowledge of evaluation and planning methodologies used in communications functions.
• Knowledge of technology and operations preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, highly organised and able to prioritise workload.
• Experienced in content development and event management.
• Experience in employee communications, and leadership communications, ideally working as part of an in-house communications team.
• Previous experience working in or with complex regulated organisations, ideally in financial services.

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.