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Henry Boot PLC is the parent company of the Sheffield-based Henry Boot Group of Companies. With over 136 years of proven expertise, Henry Boot PLC (the Group) is one of the country's leading property investment and development, strategic land development, construction, and plant hire organisations.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Internal Communications Manager to be based at our modern, contemporary, state-of-the-art new head office, the Isaacs Building, located in Sheffield's 'Heart of the City'.

The Role:

Reporting directly to the Marketing & Communications Director, the role of the Internal Communications Manager (ICM) is to lead the formation and delivery of the internal corporate communications strategy for Henry Boot Group. This is a manager position with the responsibility to create a strategy and manage one direct report. The purpose of the role is to inform, engage and excite our people with a targeted and well-planned annual programme of communications and employee engagement.

Working closely with the Director of Marketing & Communications, the role also requires close working with the wider PLC Marketing team, subsidiary marketing & communication team members, the HR Director, the Organisational Development Manager, and other members of the HR team. The role of internal communications co-ordinator will report directly to the ICM.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan for, create, seek approval of and regularly report back on the effectiveness of a strategic internal communications plan for Henry Boot PLC;
• Provide guidance and support for all subsidiary marcomms teams on best-practice internal comms which are both linked to Group-wide initiatives and also tailored subsidiary content;
• Be the main point of contact for all in-house teams, but primarily working with the HR, Marketing, Organisational Development, Learning & Development and Responsible Business teams;
• Responsible for the in-house ‘Hub’ / intranet portal to ensure (with the support of the internal communications co-ordinator) it is kept up to date with relevant and engaging content and delivers the highest engagement possible;
• Responsible (with the support of the internal communications co-ordinator) for the curation, planning and delivery of the Henry Boot internal monthly e-newsletter and wider email strategy;
• Provide support and produce content for the continued rollout of the Henry Boot reward strategy, employee benefits and performance-related communications linked to job grading;
• Work closely with the newly created position of Henry Boot / Isaacs Community Manager / Host role and the internal communications co-ordinator to inform and promote an annual calendar of internal events to engage our people with commercial/responsible business performance and the promotion of ESG, charitable, social impact projects both head office-based staff and with staff from the wider business subsidiaries;
• Responsible for the promotion and communication of results of our annual employee engagement survey facilitated via the ‘HIVE’ platform and additional colleague listening activity facilitated through engagement with our employee forums;
• Provide support to the HR team on the communications element of our on-boarding and induction initiatives;
• Support the Henry Boot website with relevant content to champion talent attraction and career progression;
• Support the Senior Corporate Communications Manager in the successful internal communication of the Henry Boot Group commercial strategy from December onwards to achieve a full understanding of and buy-in from all our people.

About You

• The ICM will need to be organised, excellent at planning, with an open, collaborative and positive disposition
• Excellent communications skills will be required as well as an excellent time and project management skillset
• A full working knowledge of the business’ commercial strategy and associated performance will be required to inform the internal communication aspect of the role
• Good negotiation / influencing skills
• A data-driven approach to work
• The ability to keep calm under pressure to deal with multiple workstreams.

Our Offer

We have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you inside and outside of work.

• We pay you a competitive salary – we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;

• We will provide you with access to electric and hybrid vehicle leasing through our salary sacrifice scheme;

• We will provide you with a car parking space or a travel allowance.

• We share our financial success with our bonus scheme;

• We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;

• We protect your loved ones by giving a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;

• We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our AVIVA Digital GP app;

• We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;

• We give you 24 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;

• We support a complete business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;

• We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent; however, you become a parent;

• We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;

• We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;

• We support you when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

About Us

Henry Boot PLC is a unique Group of Companies that create sustainable value and long-term growth from land, property & development and construction. Inspired by our founding principles and the Henry Boot Way of working, we always operate in accordance with our stated Values, with the utmost care and professionalism. We add value to our business units by giving strategic support and guidance to help fulfil their operational needs.

As a Group, we’ve been unlocking value from our operations for over 135 years.

Equality and Diversity

Since 1886 our business has always put our people first, so we’re totally committed to offering an equal opportunity to every individual who joins us.

Due to GDPR we’re unable to accept applications from agencies who have not been instructed to act upon our behalf.