Senior Internal Communications Manager- People
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Corporate Affairs
Closing date: 21 May 2025
Requisition ID: 302792
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. This is where you’ll enjoy a broad range of projects, no matter what your level, because our Corporate Affairs team is non-hierarchical and truly plugged in to the rest of the business. Whether it’s internal, external or government relations, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with everyone from food waste to health, or general merchandising to Nectar, in order to support some amazing campaigns. You’ll help build trust around Sainsbury’s with customers, senior stakeholders, media and more. And if non-linear progression is what you’re after, you’ll find opportunities are all around.
Part Time - 4 days per week
Hybrid - London (2 days per week) and home
Why join us
At Sainsbury’s we are all proud retailers. We are committed to making good food joyful, accessible and affordable for everyone, every day.
By joining the team, you will have the opportunity to deliver colleague campaigns that tell the story of why Sainsbury’s is a great place to do great work, drive greater connectivity to our purpose and champion good food. You will also join a business that is focused on empowering managers to lead their teams to deliver exceptional customer service through inspiring leadership.
What you'll do
As one of two Senior Internal Communications Managers delivering People communications at Sainsbury's, you will be working with the People division to shape the colleague people plan communications strategy and define the communications needs of key initiatives. You will develop the comms and engagement strategies to deliver the outcomes we want and manage the implementation of the communications activities.
You will also play a leading role in equipping leaders to make the key touch points through the year really count and support them to have effective and regular face-to-face conversations with every colleague - our most important channel to reach our teams.
Campaigns are varied and could include EVP, ways of working, reward, talent, recognition, change programmes, colleague listening and more.
And within our high performing internal communications team, you will play a leading role in developing our channels to ensure they meet the expectations of our colleagues and contributing to the effective delivery of our purpose led internal communications strategy.
This role has the perfect mix of autonomy, collaboration and leadership.
Who you are
A collaborative senior internal communications manager with deep experience in delivering strategic People Campaigns, within fast-paced, purpose led, matrixed organisations. Your exceptional stakeholder holder engagement skills mean you can get to the nub of subject quickly and recognise what is needed and who you need to work with to get the results needed.
Your passion for narrative development and story-telling shines through in campaign design that feels energising, coherent and relatable to our colleagues – whether they are in our stores, in a logistics location, or working from a store support centre.
You also have an integrated view of communications, and naturally work in partnership with other internal communications specialists, as well as external communication colleagues where necessary, to develop messaging that builds and protects our reputation internally and externally.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
