HR & People Communications Manager - UK&I

The Internal HR Communications Manager translates the HR and people strategy into clear, engaging communications that align with pladis’ narrative, culture, values and corporate brand. The role delivers all people communications through corporate channels, helping colleagues understand what’s happening, why it matters and what it means for them. It acts as the single point of accountability for internal people messaging, safeguarding tone, clarity and consistency across channels and audiences, strengthening trust, alignment and engagement across the UK&I colleague population.

Responsibilities

• Internal people messaging & narrative: shape end-to-end internal people narrative and lead on comms planning across HR-related communication (change, reward, performance, engagement, wellbeing, IDE, policy and culture); translate complex or sensitive HR topics into clear messaging for different colleague audiences; guard tone, sequencing and clarity for high impact or sensitive messages.
• Employer brand & colleague experience: support proactive people stories with Corporate Communications; develop campaigns and storytelling that position pladis as a great place to work; ensure HR communications are aligned with the corporate brand and provide a consistent employee experience across onboarding to offboarding; imbed inclusion, fairness and integrity in messaging.
• Channel strategy & execution: define and manage internal communications across channels (intranet, Viva Engage, email, digital screens, events, leader cascades); deliver messages to the right audiences at the right time; create toolkits and cascade materials; partner with HRBPs and site teams to land messages locally while protecting core narrative; continuously improve communication hygiene.
• Partnership with Corporate Communications: ensure alignment between internal and external messaging; coordinate timing, tone and positioning to avoid conflicts or noise; support leadership communications; maintain strong relationships across HR, Corporate Comms and stakeholders.
• Strategic contribution & impact: act as a trusted advisor to senior HR leaders on communications; anticipate risks and shape messaging; use data and feedback to assess impact and improve effectiveness; establish standards, templates and guidance to raise capability and consistency.

Key relationships: UK&I HR Leadership Team and HR Centers of Excellence; Corporate Communications (UK&I); HR Business Partners and site HR teams; senior and functional leaders; Global Communications HR Team; employee networks and engagement forums.

Skills & Experience

• Essential: Significant experience in internal or HR communications; demonstrated ability to own and deliver complex internal narratives across large, diverse workforces; strong storytelling and writing skills; ability to influence without authority; sound judgement and discretion with sensitive topics.
• Desirable: Experience working with Corporate or External Communications; exposure to change, transformation, restructuring or large-scale engagement programs; experience in unionised, operational or multi-site environments; background in HR, People or organisational communications.

Personal attributes: Practical, grounded and outcomes focused; calm and confident under pressure; values-led with integrity and fairness. Detail oriented while able to see the bigger picture; collaborative, open and comfortable challenging to improve outcomes.

What success looks like: Colleagues understand what’s happening, why it matters and how it affects them. HR and people messages are consistent, clear and trusted across UK&I. Leaders feel confident and well equipped to cascade people messages. Internal people communications feel joined up, human and on brand. Strong alignment between internal and external narratives relating to people and culture.

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity: Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis is an equal opportunities employer and believes in fostering an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive benefits of employment. pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

About pladis: pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker, with regional brands such as Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN and Verkade. Formed in 2016, pladis employs a 16,000-strong global workforce across 27 bakeries in 11 countries, united by the purpose to bring happiness with every bite. For more information, please visit www.pladisglobal.com.