Employee Communications Business Partner London, England
Job description
Employee Communications Business Partner
London
As a Barclays Employee Communications Business Partner, you will develop a solid understanding of how the business area is structured and its strategy and priorities. You will develop effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the business, designing and delivering multi-channel communication plans and campaigns that drive colleague advocacy and engagement, and support the business in achieving its growth ambitions.
Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
• Developing effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the business, designing and delivering multi-channel communication plans to achieve growth ambitions
- Using understanding of the business strategy and priorities to build and own a compelling narrative that makes colleagues feel informed, engaged, and inspired
- Designing and delivering end-to-end creative, strategically relevant, and effective communications plans that clearly articulate the objectives of the business
- Designing and implementing leadership communications plans, including engagement with the entire business area
- Making full use of the available channels and tools to measure the effectiveness of communications
- Assisting the growth and development of the team, helping them understand the business and overcome challenges
- Working closely with other colleagues to create a highly effective team, demonstrating ‘one team’ behaviours and fostering a highly effective team
- Sharing best practice across Employee Communications, and actively taking part in workshops and team-wide activities that help build a culture of continuous improvement
• Significant experience in Employee Comms, in a Business Partner role
- Experience of influencing and managing relationships at a senior level – we need candidates with brilliant stakeholder and relationship management skills
- Ability to translate business objectives into compelling and engaging communications plans
- Excellent track record of creating and curating content across a vast range of channels
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Familiarity with M365 apps and digital ways of working
- Significant commercial knowledge and awareness of external market/ industry/ regulatory issues
- Excellent planning, prioritisation, and organisation skills
- Ability to work at pace, with tight deadlines and an exceptional focus on execution
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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