Senior Internal Communications Manager - Campaigns

Senior Internal Campaigns Communications Manager

Are you someone who thrives thinking of new, creative ideas, particularly to build momentum within existing campaigns? Do you work quickly to create impact and take an idea from thought to conception? Are you strategically minded and can draw the dots between business and leadership priorities and what content colleagues find compelling to stand-out-from-the-crowd?

Aviva is seeking an experienced and vivacious individual to join our group internal communications team as a Senior Internal Campaigns Communications Manager, predominantly to focus on our Group internal communications campaigns.

Please note this role is a Fixed term Contract position covering Maternity leave, starting in July or August

A bit about the job

As a Senior Internal Campaigns Communications Manager, you’ll help our people connect to our purpose, live our values and become advocates for Aviva. You’ll help drive engagement and alignment behind Aviva’s strategic business priorities, helping create clarity for people on their contribution to these.

You'll be the beating heart of our internal campaigns, creating and delivering activity from brief to execution to connect people to our strategy, purpose and values and help them do their best work. You’ll also be a whizz at measuring outputs to capture campaign success.

This is particularly important as we continue to embed our new employee social platform, Workvivo, driving engagement through consumer standard content and world-class creative brilliance.

You’ll create unmissable, dynamic, and compelling content that supports and embeds Aviva’s purpose; “With you Today, for a Better Tomorrow”. Putting the voice of our people and customer centricity at the heart of our communications.

You’ll be a key part of our Group team, who curate, produce and publish cut through and compelling content for Aviva colleagues, with the right messages in the right format through the right channels. As part of the team, you’ll lead and inspire two brilliant people – a campaigns manager and a digital communications & design manager.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• A wealth of experience in internal communications, particularly in creating engaging and creative campaigns across a range of sectors and industries

• Highly honed and proven creative skills, able to change hearts and minds through different ways of communicating, drawing inspiration from a variety of sources

• Commercial acumen, with the ability to influence a variety of stakeholders, all the way up to C-Suite

• Be comfortable leading and rolling up your sleeves to get stuck in with delivery

• Confidence communicating in a corporate matrix organisation, creating digital content that can cut-through complexity and bureaucracy to reach a busy audience spread across multiple sites

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary of Circa £70,000  (Depending on skills and experience)  

• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Dylan Wood a call on 07385 426164 or send an email to Dylan.wood@aviva.com