Internal Communications Specialist - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Boots

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Job Reference:

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Nottingham Support Office

Secondment

37.5 hours per week


Closing Date: 25th March


Location:
Nottingham


Contract: 12 months (maternity cover)


Recruitment Partner:
Frankie McCallister-Lyas


Overview:

Welcome to the Boots Internal Communications team - it's an exciting role in the heart of the organisation


As an Internal Communications Specialist you will support the ongoing successful delivery of the Boots UK and No7 Beauty Company internal communication strategy.

You will ensure the business can connect, engage, and inspire its team members. You will advise and partner with those who also need to communicate with large groups of our colleagues.

In this role, you will look at exciting ways to inform our people, grow engagement, and inspire team member advocacy across multiple campaigns and projects.


Meaningful and effective internal communications are at the heart of our culture - and this role is key to ensuring we connect with all our team members in the right ways at the right times, and enable our people to thrive at work and connect with each other.

This role needs someone who loves shaping and delivering bold and engaging team member communications. You will have a proven track record of successfully using communications and engagement tools, tactics and techniques. With a creative mindset, great planning and curiosity, you bring projects and campaigns to life, both digitally and face-to-face.

You will report to the Head of Internal Communications and have no direct reports.


Key Responsibilities:


  • Support and deliver creative and engaging communication campaigns supporting our commercial strategic priorities and HRled projects.
  • Support and deliver professional written, visual and digital content across Boots and No7BC's internal channels.
  • Create opportunities to support great conversations between leaders, managers and team members through our core internal communication channels.
  • Measure and report on the effectiveness of our comms activities and channels and use your learnings as the basis for ongoing improvement.
  • Support with the successful delivery of businessasusual communications activity.
  • Prioritise relationships with your key stakeholders and actively build and develop them.
  • Able to preempt stakeholder needs, plan communications in advance, and to always be thinking one step ahead, to yield best results.

What you'll need to have:


  • You have excellent writing and verbal skills and a strong command of the English language.
  • You have a passion for storytelling, creative use of language, visuals, flair and tone of voice to create compelling content in engaging formats.
  • You're a newshound, and love connecting with people on a personal level to unearth meaningful stories and content and bring them to life in a considered, responsible way.
  • Creative and with an eye for design. You can create engaging content using Adobe Creative Suite, and will turn your hand to other platforms if required.
  • An excellent working knowledge of social media and digital technology.
  • You use your planning skills to manage your workload, ontime delivery, and expectations of those you work with.

It'd be great if you're also:

  • Able to work quickly and to tight timescales.
  • Aware of the broader internal comms industry, you seek information and examples of what other companies IC teams are doing, and you know what internal communications best practice looks like.
  • Curious and brave to try new things.
  • Able to naturally motivate colleagues and work well as part of a crossfunctional team.
Our benefits

  • Boots Retirement Savings Plan
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Generous employee discounts
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
  • Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
  • Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.


We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots


At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

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