PR Manager

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.

L&G Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

Join Legal & General’s Corporate Affairs team as a PR Manager focused on Campaigns & Retail PR. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver strategic communications for our DC & Workplace Savings business – a key commercial priority. You’ll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team, helping to enhance our reputation and support business growth through impactful storytelling and media engagement.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the delivery of the strategic PR plan in collaboration with the Senior PR Manager and external agencies
• Overseeing the PR calendar and aligning activity with marketing and social media teams
• Supporting day-to-day press activity, including identifying opportunities and handling media enquiries
• Drafting and editing compelling content such as press releases, articles and social media posts
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to source engaging content
• Monitoring the news agenda to identify proactive and reactive media opportunities
• Evaluating the impact of PR campaigns and supporting the implementation of the social media strategy
• Ensuring all communications are compliant with regulatory and data protection requirements

Who we're looking for:

• Demonstrated experience in a PR role, ideally within an agency or regulated environment
• Strong media relations skills and a proactive approach to identifying opportunities
• Excellent writing and proofreading abilities with a keen eye for detail
• Knowledge of pensions, retirement, or financial services is desirable
• Familiarity with social media and digital platforms and their role in PR
• A creative, adaptable mindset with strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• A collaborative team player with the ability to work independently when needed
• A genuine interest in current affairs and a passion for impactful communication

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 

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.