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As a Barclays Employee Communications Business Partner, you will work as part of a highly skilled, respected and creative global team of Employee Communications professionals, you will be accountable for developing impactful and creative content and supporting the delivery of strategic and insight-driven Employee Communications support to a Business or Function’s Senior Leadership team.
Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
Your Role
• Assisting the Employee Communications Senior Manager in delivering outstanding support to the Senior Leadership team of a business area
• Developing effective relationships with team members, for example in HR or Business Management
• Understanding what senior stakeholders across the business need to be able to design and deliver multi-channel communication plans and campaigns
• Working in partnership with the Employee Communications Senior Manager to build a compelling narrative that makes colleagues feel informed, engaged, and inspired
• Supporting the delivery of creative, strategically relevant and effective communications plans that clearly articulate the objectives of the business
• Developing and managing all channels for your business area, such as the intranet, videos, SharePoint, all hands call, leadership events
• Building content that is creative, high quality, and impactful
• Making full use of the available channels and tools, you will measure the effectiveness of communications, always looking to learn and improve the effectiveness of our approach
What we’re looking for:
• At least one previous experience working in an Employee Communications role, ideally in a financial services organisation
• Excellent writing skills
• Track record of creating and curating content across a vast range of channels – face to face and digital
• Excellent planning, prioritisation and organisation skills
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Familiarity with M365 apps
• Team-based experience, being a team player, with curiosity and eagerness to get involved
• A creative mindset, examples where you’ve proactively suggested and worked to implement new formats, and the ability to solve problems
• The ability to work at pace, with tight deadlines and a focus on execution
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
