Communications Manager

Salary starting from £50,000 per annum plus up to 15% annual bonus and healthcare cover.

ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow. Flexible Hybrid Working. Fixed Term Contract – 14 months. Closing Date: 13 June 2025.

Help us create a better future, quicker. At SP Energy Networks our focus is on harnessing technology and innovation to create the network of the future. Our team is building a dynamic network to meet the changing demands for electricity and increasingly, renewable electricity – safely, securely, and sustainably in the communities we serve.

The Communications Manager is responsible for the development and delivery of a strategic innovation communication programme across both the SP Energy Networks business, and external communication channels ensuring the delivery of clear, consistent, and effective messages to a range of audiences. The communications programme will comprise of multimedia channels, including a blend of traditional and technological solutions to deliver a step change in how we communicate across our organisation and externally with regards to innovation.

The postholder will play a key role within the Stakeholder & Communications team who manage internal and external communications for SPEN, impacting every part of our organisation and showcasing our work to external audiences. They will provide direction and assistance to business leaders in relation to key strategic and operational messages, ensuring they are successfully delivered and understood.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and deliver new and existing communications strategies, plans and activities.
• Manage and coordinate multi-channel campaigns, ensuring consistency across digital, media, stakeholder, and internal communication channels.
• Actively manage, develop and maintain a range of communication messages for all channels (podcasts, PR, social media, intranet, website, webinars, events, printed materials, videos etc), that support our projects in the delivery of strategic objectives.
• Monitor and analyse communications effectiveness, using insights to refine strategies and improve engagement outcomes.
• Provide solutions and know-how on communications and marketing best practice, ensuring the successful delivery of key messages both internally and externally.
• Liaise with key external suppliers and agencies on production of creative communications and marketing material, ensuring completion to brief, within budget and to agreed timescales.
• Work closely with the wider stakeholder and communications team, and local stakeholder teams, to ensure messaging aligns with strategic communications objectives at a business-wide level.
• Provide support to the communications team for general communications requests daily, including contributions to wider team planning and reporting.
• Work closely with SPEN Communications Manager to lead crisis comms response and storm resilience planning, ensuring effective communication before, during, and after extreme weather events.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong experience working in dynamic corporate communications, public relations, or stakeholder engagement environments, ideally within the energy, utilities, or regulated sectors.
• Excellent content creation skills, with experience producing high-quality written materials for different audiences across multiple formats.
• Experience of successfully communicating complex subjects at all audience levels, particularly writing successful marketing material and business writing translating technical and regulatory information into accessible, engaging content.
• Excellent influencing skills with experience working with senior leadership, media, and external stakeholders to shape and deliver impactful messaging.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and inter-personal skills to motivate and influence managers and staff at all levels.
• Results focused with impeccable project management skills, able to prioritise to deliver high quality outcomes to tight deadlines.

What’s in it for you:

• 36 days annual leave.
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave.
• Share Schemes.
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding.
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases.
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving.
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans.
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments.
• Life Assurance (4x salary).
• Access to Savesmart 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 homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. We’re investing over £7 billion into our networks, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy.

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 require related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

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.