We're on the lookout for an Internal Communications Manager to join our firmwide Internal Communications team. This role is all about making sure our communications are seamless, genuine, and effective across all operational functions.

As part of the firmwide communications team, you'll plan and manage the timely delivery of operational communications including HR, IT, Finance and more. You'll handle internal communication for strategic and business-as-usual projects.

You'll report to the Head of Internal Communications.

Responsibilities of the role will be:

• Strategic internal communications: Understand the firm's vision, strategy, and internal communications approach. Use this knowledge to inform your planning and as a foundation for all your work.
• Operational communications: Develop and deliver strategies and plans for operational functions. Ensure these align with the broader internal communications agenda, providing targeted, relevant, and timely communications that inform and inspire.
• Stakeholder management: Advise and guide key stakeholders in developing and delivering their communications programmes. Support them in creating and delivering creative communications plans to educate our people and drive behaviour change. Keep stakeholders informed of activity, progress, challenges and results.
• Strategic relationships: Collaborate with our operations teams, offering expert communication counsel to support delivery of desired business outcomes.
• Content development: Create and deliver quality content through various firmwide channels, including newsletters, our intranet and Viva Engage.
• Communication campaigns: Motivate firmwide audiences to engage with priority communications. Develop and deliver internal communications campaigns and content to driven priorities and projects, ensuring the right message reaches the right audience through the right channel such as events, the intranet, videos, newsletter and digital signage.
• Planning and coordination: Contribute to Internal Communications plans to continuously improve internal communications.
• Channel management: Operate a comprehensive channel matrix. Ensure our firmwide communications channels are fit-for-purpose and future-ready, particularly our intranet and internal social media network.

You'll be someone with:

• Experience in designing and implementing internal communications strategies and plans
• Proven track record in delivering effective communications programmes that produce tangible results or change
• A thorough understanding of the internal communications channel mix, with experience of communications technologies and channels including Poppulo, SharePoint and Viva Engage
• Initiative in drafting first communications, starting new projects and seeking innovative solutions to complex challenges
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with excellent copywriting, copy editing and proofreading skills
• The ability to write in plain English, removing jargon and management speak

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture.  From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.  At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices.  BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.  With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.