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Employer Unilever Location Kingston Upon Thames, England, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 24 May 2025
View more categories View less categories Sector Marketing, Advertising and PR Role Assistant Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time
Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.
Job Title: Communications Assistant Manager
Function: Communications & Corporate Affairs
Location: Kingston
JOB PURPOSE
* Support the Unilever UK & Ireland Communications team to deliver a busy and fast-paced internal communications agenda that supports the acceleration and success of our strategy in the UK, engaging employees around business priorities, as well as supporting to embed Unilever culture and behaviours
* Support the curating and planning of our internal communications calendar and the creation of internal content
* Lead on internal communication channel management and campaign execution to reach our key audiences, including employees in Unilever's UK & Ireland business based in Kingston and Dublin, as well as supporting with national communications that reach all Unilever employees based in the UK, including in our R&D and factory sites
* Support with external campaigns and channels
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Own and manage Unilever UK's internal channels, creating high-quality and engaging content for a range of channels including newsletters, articles, and video content
* Support external campaigns and content, including leading on UKI ED&I content for Unilever UK & Ireland's website and social channels
* Manage local charity relationships and lead our approach to volunteering for the UKI Business and Kingston site
* Support with leadership communications and writing, formatting, and issuing of leadership notes and all employee emails
* Support delivery of town halls, and larger employee events, including logistics and content creation
* Lead on analytics tracking of our internal channels, ensuring an always-on approach to using data and insights to shape our internal communications strategy and focus
* Work closely with the brand teams and functions, including HR and ED&I teams, to support them in communicating and landing their agendas internally and externally
* Maintain good relationship with all site comms leads across the UK & Ireland, including our factory and R&D hubs, sharing campaign toolkits and assets to ensure nationwide amplification of key internal campaigns
* Work closely with and support Industrial Placement in the team as required
* Support with team press office monitoring and rota
Key Skills and Experience
* Excellent writing skills with consistent high attention to detail
* Internal communications experience and understanding of the role internal communications plays in supporting corporate strategies and commercial priorities
* Talent for visual communications development including videos, PowerPoint decks, infographics
* Setting up and managing virtual events on Microsoft Teams
* Utilising the Microsoft 365 suite of tools to deliver effective communications - this might include but not be limited to Viva Engage and SharePoint
* Filming and editing videos and using content creation tools
* Consistent delivery of high-quality results whilst continuously seeking opportunities to improve ways of working and experiment with new creative formats for engaging communications
* An all-round working knowledge of the various disciplines of communications - particularly employee communications and engagement, social media and campaigns and events management
* Delivery in a fast-paced environment and managing multiple stakeholders
About you
* Passionate about employee engagement and internal communications
* Understanding of what makes a good news story and how to adapt stories for different audiences and channels
* Flare for taking ideas and bringing them to life in creative and engaging way
* Highly organised and accountable with great attention to detail
* Passion for continuous improvement
* Confidence, drive and initiative
* Relationship builder who enjoys working with people
* Team player with a flexible approach and a willingness to get involved in all aspects of the communications team's work
* Comfortable developing a strong network across the business
* Comfortable with taking full accountability for projects you lead
* Ability to prioritise and do back planning to meet timelines
* Flexibility in handling ad hoc requests with short deadlines
What we offer
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.
Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (unilever.com).
Company
Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts. The personal contribution you make means you feel good about what you do and proud that you have a career with a higher purpose. Be empowered to make a positive impact, by bringing your purpose into action.
Be a force for good. Unleash your curiosity and pioneering spirit to make our business win and grow. Use your confidence to challenge the status quo for the better, while you learn, grow and make a positive impact .
"Diversity & Inclusion is one of the things that we want Unilever to be famous for.
This means making sure our business is fair, attracting and retaining
the very best talent and helping them unlock their full potential."
Dove, Lipton, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Lynx, Knorr, Surf. Our world-famous brands are totally different – and as people, so are we. Be surrounded by individually different but like-minded people who share your values, commitment and desire to start or pursue a career across different cultures and levels of seniority where you do good things every day. Bring your real self to work, here we combine our differences to achieve greater things.
Develop into your best self. Get inspired by leaders and peers and create life-shaping experiences for yourself. Unilever offers an inspirational working environment where you will be mentored and nurtured by bright minds and purpose-led leaders. Use your skills and knowledge, and the tools we provide you to experience all that Unilever can offer across brands and around the world. You have the ability to craft a flexible – and global – career.
Our policies & flexible working
At Unilever, we have a range of market-leading, family-friendly and flexible working policies, which enable our employees to balance their day-to-day responsibilities.
These policies and practices include:
* Agile working, which gives employees the possibility to work remotely and flex their own hours, whilst ensuring business needs are met.
* Flexible working arrangements including, but not limited to, part-time and job share opportunities.
* Enhanced leave policies - all employees taking maternity or shared parental leave have up to 16 weeks’ paid leave and some eligible employees can have up to 39 weeks’ paid leave. In addition, our Maternity & Paternity Services portal provides online resources to support employees at all stages of parenthood, as well as tailored guidance for line managers.
* Practical support including, nursery benefits and back-up care for parents and carers.
* A constant focus on wellbeing for employees, including regular health checks, mental health support and our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a strong culture of mentoring, training and learning across the organisation, with a range of resources and initiatives available:
* Mentoring and coaching
* Leadership and general business skills training, including unconscious bias
* Learning for all, via access to internal and external resources
* Workshops which support personal and team development.
Our ambition: unlocking talent through disability inclusion
The World Health Organization estimates that there are one billion people in the world currently living with a disability. That’s about 15% of the global population, or 1 in 7 of us. And the statistics suggest that people living with disabilities are among the most marginalised populations in the world in terms of employment and educational opportunity.
Removing the barriers facing people living with disability is a priority for our business. It isn’t just the right thing to do – we believe that creating equality of opportunity will unlock a huge pool of talent. It also gets to the heart of the ambition to ‘leave no one behind’ – and could contribute to the five Sustainable Development Goals which explicitly reference disability and to the wider sustainable development agenda.
In 2018, we set ourselves global commitments to achieve by 2025:
* to be the number one employer of choice for people with disabilities, and
* to increase the number of employees with disabilities to 5% of our total workforce.
These are ambitious targets. They involve transforming the way we recruit and train our people. And they mean adapting both the way we work and our workplaces, so that we can support people with disabilities to reach their full potential.
"We cannot be an inclusive organisation unless we ensure that we have created the conditions
and the culture for people with a disability to thrive."
We are keen to find out about your talent, and offer the support you need.
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