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Communications and Design Manager

Glasgow, St Vincent Street
Salary from £47,200 - £59,000 per annum
Bonus up to 15% and Single Health Cover
Flexible Working Pattern
Permanent

Closing date: 14th of July 2023

Help us create a better future, quicker

Joining SP Energy Networks as Communications and Design Manager you will play a key role in the project team with responsibility for the development and delivery of a communication programme across the SP Energy Networks business and to wider stakeholders. You will work in close collaboration with our Communications, Stakeholder and Regulatory teams delivering internal and external communications strategies and campaigns while also taking on the responsibility for the production and co-ordination of all supporting communication materials ensuring the delivery of clear, consistent, and effective communications to a range of audiences helping to achieve key business objectives.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be creating and ultimately delivering a strategic stakeholder communications strategy for internal and external audiences, including employees, consumers, and key influential stakeholders. You’ll champion the creation of high-quality standardised material to provide consistent messaging and narratives to selected target audiences.

We’re looking for someone who can provide solutions and know-how, producing content for regulatory business plans and key submissions, key stakeholder publications, independent groups, stakeholder newsletters, as required by the business. Someone who can provide direction and assistance to business leaders to ensure key strategic and operational messages are delivered, understood and effectively cascaded across the business and to external parties as part of a regulatory process and beyond.

You will have a flair for content creation and design, able to create compelling promotional media such as videos, leaflets and beyond to support our vision and position for internal and external purposes.Results focussed, we want to you to measure the effectiveness of communications - striving to continually improve and act on results and feedback.

You’ll actively manage, develop, and maintain a range of communication channels (intranet, website, webinars, events, printed materials, videos, etc).

What you’ll bring

• You can bring creativity, with an eye for good design principles. You’ll bring a proven track record of developing and delivering complex internal and external communications strategies, an ability to professionally design high quality materials and experience of writing coherent business documents for varied audiences
• You will be professionally qualified to degree level in communications, or a related field, and have years of experience operating in a communications manager role
• Strong experience working in a marketing and communications environment, developing strategy level materials using multimedia channels of delivery
• Strong demonstrable experience of creating, managing and delivering fully integrated media/marketing campaigns across all media channels to deliver against communications objectives aligned to business goals
• You will have a sharp eye for detail and keen focus on monitoring and measurement techniques ensuring overall success and delivery of your communications objectives
• You have worked extensively across a variety of audiences, with solid experience of audience insight, developing communications strategy and translating into operational delivery
• Strong demonstrable project management skills with ability to plan, organise and deliver external and business-wide communication plans, ensuring that the overall plan maintains momentum and achieves objectives
• You will have a proven ability to lead and manage the delivery of communication interventions across a large and complex organisation alongside an excellent ability to develop and deliver high quality written and multimedia communications materials targeted across a diverse range of both internal and external audiences
• Results focused, with the ability to maintain momentum and achieve objectives when faced with obstacles, conflicts and competing demands
  

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to 3.5m homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North & Mid Wales and areas in the North West of England. We operate the cables and power lines that make-up the transmission and distribution network we own and maintain – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system and facilitating connection of Low Carbon Technologies like EVs and Heat Pumps. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of the UK's Net Zero carbon emissions ambition. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing billions of pounds into our electricity network over the next decade, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy and creating thousands of highly skilled, green jobs in the process. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, this is an exciting place to be. As part of the ScottishPower Group, we can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or re-quire pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility Information

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.