Senior Employee Communications Manager (Events) - London

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About the role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Employee Communications Manager (Events) to join our Enabling Functions - Communications team based in Canary Wharf, London.

Within this role you'll provide mid-senior level communications advice and work with the Head of Employee Communications with specific responsibility for delivering high profile Group events, and business partnering for two of our Enabling Functions (Digital and Procurement).

What you'll be doing

As a key member of the UK Communications team, the scope of this role includes, but is not limited to, the duties described below:

• Manage 1 team member, a Communications Executive for Events, setting objectives, and empower them to succeed.
• Be the senior lead for high-profile events, taking responsibility for overall project management and event execution.
• Work with Head of Employee Communications, Enabling Function leaders and teams and other key stakeholders to shape, build and deliver communication campaigns through a regular rhythm of content and events. Have a strategy for how you want to deliver Employee Communications and see it through, but ready to adapt if needed, drawing on previous experience and best practice.
• Be resilient, able to prioritise competing demands of the highest priority and ready to power through with energy to get a project or job over the line.
• Horizon-scan to keep abreast of changes in the company and externally, and react accordingly. Know when to act and when to keep a watching brief. Use your organisational insight to advise senior leaders for Digital and Procurement on the most important communications to the company.
• Identify the different internal and external stakeholders you need to work with and the relationships you need to foster, to win influence and leverage at the right time. Attend regular Senior Leadership Team meetings to build relationships, understand your business areas, provide strategic insight and build communications into early-stage planning of business objectives.
• Produce regular content for employee communications channels, ensuring all content is on brand, accurate, and signed off by appropriate stakeholders.

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• Understands internal and external communications channels.
• Strong experience of delivering events, both virtual and face to face.
• Comfortable liaising with senior management and C-suite level stakeholders, with strong relationship building, good networking and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication craft skills (in this role you must be able to write fast and well).
• A strong understanding and background in digital communications (eg SharePoint, VivaEngage, email newsletters, Slido and Teams).
• A creative thinker who is always looking at how to do things differently, or how to bring the spark to a campaign or event.
• Effective team player with ability to work with individuals across multiple geographical locations.
• Adapts positively to changing business demands.
• Good understanding of the regulatory environment and financial calendar communications.
• A passion for, and understanding of, industry issues and the national news agenda.
• A clean driving licence and willingness to travel.

Desirable:

• Experience of business partnering.
• Experience of working on construction/civil engineering infrastructure projects.
• Member of CIPR and relevant qualification.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.