Colleague Communications Manager, Wealth

At Rathbones, we help people invest their money well, so they can live well. That means more than financial returns – it’s about helping people feel confident in their decisions and supported in their future. We’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading wealth managers, with £113.6bn in assets under management (as of March 2026) and 20+ offices across the UK and Channel Islands. We’re a FTSE 250 company with national reach and a local feel – and we’re growing.

About the Role

At Rathbones, our client-facing colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. We're looking for an experienced Colleague Communications Manager to help keep them connected, informed and inspired. Partnering closely with senior leaders across our Wealth business, you'll shape the way we communicate with colleagues, ensuring they have the right information at the right time to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to influence how communications are delivered across a large and evolving organisation. From business updates and strategic initiatives to change communications and colleague engagement, you'll create compelling content and experiences that bring our business to life and strengthen understanding, connection and engagement across our Wealth community.

Success in this role means more than just delivering communications. You'll continually raise the quality and impact of our colleague communications, modernise and optimise our channel landscape, drive engagement to new levels, and become a trusted communications partner to stakeholders across the Wealth business.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Partnering with senior leaders and key stakeholders to help activate a targeted colleague communications strategy for the Wealth business.
• Supporting the day-to-day delivery of clear, effective and engaging communication across Wealth.
• Drawing on the company narrative to produce, distribute and amplify high-impact communications to client-facing colleague audiences.
• Supporting the effective delivery of procedural, training and technical content, as required.
• Helping manage a modern, integrated mix of channels and content formats to run colleague engagement campaigns, in-person and virtual events, and more.
• Developing and delivering communication plans for a wide range of initiatives, including change and transformation workstreams.
• Acting as a trusted communications adviser to the business, supporting leaders and building strong relationships on behalf of our team.
• Working with the Wealth senior leadership team and the wider Colleague Communications team to maintain and continually improve a rigorous planning, production and measurement process.

About you:

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply:

• Proven experience in similar roles, activating colleague communications strategies in large organisations.
• Tech-savvy and data-driven – confident using SharePoint, Viva Engage and modern email tools to activate and measure campaigns.
• Comfortable using AI tools to speed up and sharpen comms production, measurement and insight.
• Solid grounding in creative production, with the ability to visually express content with minimal creative team support (including video and event production).
• Great storytelling, writing and presentation skills, with considerable experience crafting compelling narratives.
• Meticulously organised and highly flexible, with a proven ability to balance multiple campaigns and projects at once.
• A proven ability to influence stakeholders across the business.
• Confident coaching colleagues on communications and managing agency partners where needed.
• Experience in Wealth and Asset Management, or more broadly in Financial Services (an advantage, not a requirement).

Our offer to you:

We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential, in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong. We offer a comprehensive remuneration package, which we review regularly, and benefits include:

• A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%.
• Private medical insurance – Individual on joining, family after 1 year’s service.
• Life assurance - 8 x salary.
• Company share scheme.
• Discretionary bonus.
• Flexible holidays – purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Green Car Scheme.
• Family friendly policies – enhanced family leave for parents & carers.
• Study support – study days and funding for courses and qualifications.
• Season travel ticket loans.
• Other voluntary benefits you can choose to suit you.

Our employees can choose to take part in various social groups and communities to support their wellbeing, growth, development and sense of community. These include: Sports & Social Committees, such as cricket, football, netball, running, yoga, quiz nights, charity bake sales and much more. Inclusion Networks that help us drive change within the organisation such as Gender Balance, Multicultural, Abilities Count, Pride, Social Mobility, Generations, Menopause Matters@Rathbones’ and Armed Forces. The NextGen IM Network, which brings together a community of trainees from across the UK, who are all at the early stages of their careers and offers development opportunities, exposure across the business as well as peer support and connection.

Life at Rathbones:

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all. We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values. We’re a Disability Confident Employer (level 2) under the UK Government scheme. This means we’ve signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities.

If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones, please contact us via recruit@rathbones.com to let us know what adjustments you may need.

Mission:

We believe in playing the long game. That means building consistent results, earning trust and doing the right thing — for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we’re part of. Our values shape how we work:

• We aim high.
• We get it done.
• We show we care.
• We do the right thing.

These aren’t just words on a wall. They guide how we treat each other, how we make decisions and how we build relationships that last. We will close this advert once we have received enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss out.