At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape impactful employee communications and partner with executives to convey strategic messages.
- Company: Join AVEVA, a leader in software for industrial companies, focused on employee experience.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible benefits, 28 days annual leave, private medical insurance, and education assistance.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with a vibrant team dedicated to enhancing the employee experience.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by translating complex topics into engaging narratives for employees.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in employee communications with strong writing and project management skills.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.
The Job
You will shape and deliver high-impact employee communications that help colleagues understand AVEVA's strategy, priorities and progress.
With a strong focus on executive-level communications, you will advise and partner closely with an assigned members of our Executive team from R&D, Portfolio and Strategy, helping them communicate with clarity, credibility, and with the right tone across the right channels.
This role is ideal for a strategic internal communicator who can translate complex or technical topics into simple, engaging narratives that drive understanding, alignment and action.
- Key outcomes (what success looks like)
- Executives are well-prepared and confident delivering strategic messages with consistent narrative, tone and clarity.
- Employees demonstrate improved understanding of strategic priorities (as evidenced through feedback, Q&A themes, pulse/sentiment inputs and channel metrics).
- Major moments (e. g., All Hands) are delivered smoothly with strong content quality, message pull-through and measurable engagement.
- Communications are accessible, inclusive and channel-appropriate across global audiences.
Key responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders as a trusted advisor, shaping messaging, tone of voice, timing and channel approach for strategic employee communications.
- Develop executive-ready content (narratives, key messages, briefings, talking points, scripts, FAQs and sensitive-topic responses).
- Translate complex/technical topics into clear, human and employee-relevant communications tailored to audience and context.
- Provide proactive counsel by anticipating employee questions, risks and "what it means for me" implications and advising leaders accordingly.
- Lead communications for major engagement moments (e. g., Global All Hands), including storyline, run-of-show, speaker coordination, rehearsal support and follow-up.
- Ensure alignment across leaders and functions , partnering with comms colleagues and SMEs to avoid duplication and maintain consistent enterprise messaging.
- Maintain high editorial and accessibility standards , ensuring communications are accurate, plain-language, inclusive, channel-fit and appropriately reviewed.
- Use insights and feedback to improve impact , tracking engagement/qualitative themes and refining leader communications and channel effectiveness over time.
Essential requirements
- Significant experience delivering employee communications, including strategic/change communications (typically 5+ years).
- Demonstrable experience supporting senior stakeholders with messaging and communications planning (multiple stakeholders preferred).
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, including the ability to translate complex/technical topics into clear and engaging employee communications.
- Strong project management capability: able to manage multiple workstreams, competing deadlines and stakeholder inputs with discipline and calm.
- Strong judgement, attention to detail and professionalism handling sensitive information.
- Desired skills
- Experience supporting Product, R&D/engineering, Portfolio or Strategy organisations (or similarly technical environments).
- Experience delivering communications to global audiences and across time zones.
- Familiarity with common internal comms channels and virtual engagement formats.
- People at AVEVA
We're focused on the single most important part of AVEVA's business: our employees.
From recruitment and reward to experience and engagement, our partnerships across the business create and enable the conditions for every individual to thrive.
Doing the best we can for our great people requires quick thinking - and big thinking.
Our team is as involved in the day-to-day activities affecting the employee experience as we are in the global transformation projects shaping AVEVA's future.
Join us and become part of a diverse and vibrant group that's striving to make every day at AVEVA even better than the last.
Find out more
UK Benefits include
- Flexible benefits fund
- emergency leave days
- adoption leave
- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- pension
- life cover
- private medical insurance
- parental leave
- education assistance program
It's possible we're hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location.
Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.
- Find out more: aveva. com/en/about/careers/benefits/
- Hybrid working
We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA.
Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection.
- Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the wo
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Employee Communications Manager in London employer: AVEVA
AVEVA is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, providing employees with the opportunity to lead impactful projects in a dynamic environment. With a focus on professional growth, employees benefit from comprehensive training and development programmes, while the hybrid work model in vibrant locations like London or Cambridge ensures a healthy work-life balance. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to excellence in internal controls and compliance.
