Internal Communications Junior Business Partner in London

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Internal Communications and Engagement is a key function within our Corporate Affairs, Brand and Sustainability (CABS) team. Our role is an important one - we help M&G achieve its ambitions by making sure all of our colleagues are crystal clear on what we’re aiming to achieve together, how we want to do it, and what their part is in making it happen.

You’ll primarily work within our Life business and spend a significant amount of your time building relationships in this space, creating content and communications plans and initiatives that support the delivery of the Life strategy. You won’t do that alone. You’ll report directly into the Internal Communications and Engagement Business Partner for Life, and work closely with the rest of our Internal Communications team, wider CABS team, and key stakeholders across Life. Together, you’ll be part of a team helping shape how we communicate with our teams at M&G.

Key accountabilities for this role:

• Contributing to the delivery of our Internal Communications strategy – under the direction of our Internal Communications and Engagement Business Partner, you’ll support the delivery of our functional communication plans. This will be through a variety of activity, including: finding, writing and publishing great stories, helping to organise key colleague events and getting creative with communications campaigns.
• Shaping your own communications agenda - you’ll have the opportunity to partner with key areas of the Life business and drive your own communications plans for key strategic deliverables.
• Driving colleague engagement through data – you’ll use the data and insight available to better understand the needs of our colleagues and make sure that we’re listening and reacting to what our colleagues need.
• Building great relationships – you’ll forge tight relationships with a number of key people across M&G.

Some of the skills and experience you’ll need:

• Experience working as part of an Internal Communications team, or in a role where you’ve worked as part of a team to deliver communications activity.
• A creative thinker who knows how to spot a really great story and how best share it with people.
• The ability to explore and understand complex topics and create engaging content that links back to our corporate narrative.
• The ability to work well with a range of stakeholders to understand their agenda and needs.
• A reputation for getting stuff done – sometimes on your own, sometimes with your team, sometimes with people from across the business.
• The ability to make good use of data and analytics to inform decisions and actions.
• An interest in developing a broad network, both internally and externally.

What we offer:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options.

At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.