Internal Communication Specialist in Scarborough

Internal Communications Specialist — Change and Commercial

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role:

Join a team where communication creates real business impact. You'll lead the delivery of engaging communications around change and commercial priorities, ensuring employees and leaders across GB & EMENA stay informed, connected and inspired. From strategic transformation programmes to fast-moving business updates, you'll play a key role in helping our people navigate change and succeed together.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading Change & Transformation Communications: You'll play a central role in helping our people navigate change with confidence. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll develop communication strategies that bring transformation initiatives to life, creating clear, engaging and human-centred messaging that builds understanding, trust and alignment across the business.
• Bringing Commercial Priorities to Life: You'll help employees connect with the commercial goals that drive our success, transforming business strategy into stories that are relevant, engaging and meaningful.
• Delivering High-Impact Business Communications: From fast-moving business updates to sensitive organisational announcements, you'll provide expert communications support when it matters most.
• Contributing to a High-Performing Regional Communications Team: As part of an integrated regional team, you'll collaborate closely with colleagues to deliver communications that inform, engage and inspire.

What you’ll need to be successful:

We're looking for a skilled communications professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about helping people understand, navigate and embrace change. You'll be an exceptional storyteller, trusted advisor and relationship builder, capable of translating complex business priorities into communications that inform, engage and inspire.

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience in internal, corporate or change communications within a complex organisation.
• A proven ability to simplify complex information and transform it into clear, engaging and audience-focused communications.
• Experience supporting organisational change, transformation programmes or sensitive business initiatives with confidence, empathy and sound judgement.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to translate business, customer and market insights into meaningful employee communications.
• Outstanding writing, editing and storytelling skills, with excellent verbal and written English.
• The ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders across multiple functions, levels and geographies.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset, coupled with the confidence to challenge constructively, advise senior leaders and work independently when required.
• Confidence using digital communication platforms and content creation tools to deliver impactful communications.

Nice to Have:

While not essential, we'd be particularly excited to hear from candidates who have:

• Experience working within FMCG, food manufacturing or another large, complex multinational business.
• A track record of communicating across different countries, cultures and employee audiences.
• Experience developing content for town halls, all-hands meetings, leadership events, webcasts or large-scale employee communications.
• Exposure to content localisation, translation management or adapting communications for regional markets.
• Experience using AI and digital tools to enhance communication quality, efficiency and insight generation.
• Dutch language skills (for candidates based in Amsterdam).

About the team:

You'll join a regional Internal Communications team of three, reporting into a structure led by the Director of Internal Communications, alongside a Business Partner and another Internal Communications Specialist. This close-knit team works together to shape and deliver communications strategy across the region.

About McCain:

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.