Senior Manager Employee Communications Asset Management

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.

We’re recruiting for a Senior Manager Employee Communications, Asset Management to join us. You will be responsible for delivering campaigns and content for employees in our Asset Management division to support our ambitions for growth.  

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with the Head of Employee & CEO Communications, Asset Management, to develop and deliver an employee communications strategy for Asset Management that increases awareness and understanding of our strategy, supports adoption of change and transformation goals, and builds trust and confidence in the business’s leadership in line with the business goals
• Working autonomously to business partner with senior leaders in Asset Management, providing senior advice and counsel to create and drive communications plans that support key priorities across the division, developing clear and consistent messaging and engaging content and events to support their delivery in line with business requirements
• Working closely with our integrated Marketing team and stakeholders across Asset Management to curate and develop content including employee newsletters, articles, and videos, and designing and delivering events including hybrid and virtual employee Town Halls, evaluating their effectiveness and implementing improvements designed to increase visibility and engagement of content
• Identifying and delivering opportunities to improve the delivery of employee communications, including channel management, and planning and evaluation, working with L&G’s Employee Communications team to implement changes effectively and efficiently in Asset Management, harnessing the power of narrative through different media – including email, blogs, and video – to inform, connect, and inspire employees in line with the company strategy
• Delivering communications plans that support leaders to implement changes in the business via targeted and focused communications and deputising for the Head of Employee Communications, Asset Management, where needed
• Ensuring communications are reviewed and approved by individuals who have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and expertise, and that such approval is recorded
• Taking the lead in all matters regarding the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used consistently and that the area follows the Group’s policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, to maximize business performance

Who we’re looking for:

• 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
• Solid understanding of the asset management industry

• 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
• Experience effectively managing relationships with external agency partners and collaborating with colleagues to deliver on plans
• 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

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.