Internal Communications Business Partner - Production (CONTRACTOR)
Job Description:
To inspire, inform and engage key stakeholders to Production by championing the function through creative and innovative communication. Ensure full visibility of key activity at the Gloucester site and highlight & celebrate success stories and meaningful messaging. To assist and support Production in communicating its successes to the wider Safran group. The role holder will be a champion for Production, spotting great stories, looking for opportunities to amplify and leverage content and identifying outlets to place those stories.
Key Activities of the Role:
- Relationship & Information Management:
- Collaborate with functional leaders to develop a clear communications strategy for the department.
- Identify upcoming initiatives, critical stories and essential communication activity, through working closely with the function, understanding their vision and translating it into a captivating storyline.
- Gain a full understanding of the target audience to ensure the right information is sent, in the right format, at the right time.
- Attend briefings, cascades and meetings in the Production, Communications and wider company functions as necessary to feed the pipeline of information.
- Production's 'Roving Reporter':
- Ability to seek out a phenomenal story that shows how we're growing with purpose and replay or elevate this so more people 'hear' it.
- Identify key projects, people, programs, innovations and other topics in Production that will hold interest for the wider business.
- Tenacity to follow up leads and make sure the story is secured.
- Research topics, interview contacts, verify facts and then translate them through writing or other media forms into compelling & creative content to publication standard.
- Produce exciting visuals to make any written content 'pop' and get noticed - artwork, photography, video.
- Identifying appropriate channels to distribute content and adjusting outputs accordingly.
- Be proactive to any requests for story generation from Communications functions throughout where Production can contribute.
- Events:
- Support face-to-face communications and events across Production and the wider Gloucester site and create communications around these e.g. success case studies for National Apprenticeship Week/innovative installation for Cheltenham Science Festival.
- Publicise the success of events for production through follow up stories & activities.
- Corporate Comms:
- Align company communications with the Safran corporate identity and graphics standards.
- Contribute to and utilise appropriately the corporate Communications photography and video collections.
- Link in with corporate communication efforts to optimise the communication impact for Production.
Additional Description:
Key HR Measures will be set out in the objectives but will include timely and accurate delivery of the above tasks and key projects.
Candidate Skills & Requirements:
ESSENTIAL:
- Brilliant interpersonal skills with the ability to listen and talk to anyone at any level and draw out their story.
- Excellent written English with attention to grammar and tone and an interest in/aptitude for, digital content generation, including design, photography and video. Training will be provided if necessary.
- MS Office applications including PowerPoint and Teams/motivated with strong initiative/able to juggle multiple projects and demands with tight deadlines/excellent organisational and time management skills/an eye for detail - able to spot a typo at twenty paces!
DESIRABLE:
- A technical, engineering or production background or interest in this area would be an advantage.
- An understanding of what makes for a compelling story for a commercially focused internal audience at all levels, including Board.
- Creative mindset, appreciation of and ability to work within, corporate brand guidelines.
- Digital content creation/photography and video skills.
- Eagerness to be involved in other activities that may be applicable, such as events.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience in engineering or related discipline or qualification in communications with at least 18 months experience in a role in engineering and/or production/manufacturing. Knowledge/experience of engineering/production coupled with communications skills - content generation including copy, video, and images.
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