Internal Communications Executive

The role at a glance: 

Can you write great content? Are you creative, with a high level of intellectual curiosity? If yes, then we'd love you to join our team. We're looking for an Internal Communications Executive to help take our Employee Communications to the next level. 

You will implement and shape LGIM’s integrated internal communications strategy, which aims to inform, connect and inspire people across the company.  Bringing to life our culture, people, brand and DE&I activity through campaigns and events, you will also be involved in evaluation as well as execution – tracking the success of internal communications activities and exploring best practice

You'll need to be a confident writer and editor, interested in executing and cascading engaging, timely communications to different audiences across LGIM, to generate the greatest impact.

What you'll be doing:

Internal communications: Drafting, editing and supporting internal communications to update staff on the company’s strategy, activities and plans, building trust and confidence in LGIM.
Stakeholder management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with key business stakeholders and employee networks, ensuring a visible flow of activities and timings.
Strong writing / editorial skills: Harness the power of narrative through different media – including email, blogs and video – to inform, connect and inspire employees.
Email building and distribution: Building, designing and distributing engaging and impactful emails via Pardot.
Intranet management: Making the company’s intranet site a central hub for LGIM’s internal communications and source for dialogue and conversation.
Events: Supporting the Internal Comms team in organising and executing events with both internal and external stakeholders.
Team relationships: Working closely with colleagues in the Marketing department and across the Chief of Staff division, in addition to other key stakeholders across the business.
Best practice: Ensuring communications are compliant and timely, while seeking ways to enhance the team’s overall output.
Commercial awareness: Developing a keen understanding of LGIM’s business units, products and solutions, while staying abreast of industry trends.
Measurement: Developing and monitoring reach, engagement and success metrics, feeding the results into internal communications strategy.

You will have an Undergraduate degree and be proficient in Microsoft Office suite – word, powerpoint, excel and outlook. 

Detail-orientated and a creative thinker, you'll have previously worked in a communications, content or journalism role and be able to implement communications activities, particularly high-quality events, for a large organisation.

It goes without saying you'll have exceptional writing and editing skills and an ability to develop messages for a variety of audiences. This will be combined with strong organisational skills, excellent planning and logistics management and outstanding interpersonal skills, in order to work closely with teams and individuals at all levels of an organisation in developing and delivering communications aligned with business priorities.

You'll be able to build strong connections and relationships across the organisation to ensure connectivity and co-ordination across all communications plans and activities. Be keen to take ownership of agreed communications activities and deliver against objectives and able to work in a high-pressure environment and remain composed in the face of multiple projects and tight deadlines.

Benefits: 

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

About the business area:

The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.