Communications Manager

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Company Description

Evelyn Partners is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they're at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

Read more about us and available career opportunities here: Wealth, accountancy and business advisory services / Evelyn Partners and Careers / Evelyn Partners

Job Description

What will you be doing?

We're seeking a talented individual to join our Professional Services (PS) Marketing team in London. Helping to protect and grow the Professional Services reputation and build awareness of our services, brand and expertise. You will act as a key point of contact handling inbound media requests, crafting media releases and stories and you will activate the PS internal communications strategy, responding to our colleagues' communication needs and devising the best ways to engage them.

As Communications Manager, your responsibilities will include among others

• Primary point of contact for day-to-day media enquiries
• Proactively lead PR campaigns, supporting the corporate PR activity working with the Senior Corporate Communications Manager
• Monitor, measure and report the effectiveness of our internal and external communications, drawing insights and optimising wherever possible.. Liaising with media monitoring agencies to ensure a regular flow of internal reporting on media activity with the business
• Maintain our list of approved business media speakers, arranging media training as required.
• Co-ordinating PR plans across internal communications where necessary to ensure colleagues are up to date.
• Oversee the planning, creation and delivery of impactful content across our entire spectrum of internal communication channels.
• Nurture relationships with all the relevant stakeholders, working closely with a wide range of teams and departments to understand their needs and facilitate the right messaging and content.
• Align with our HR and Communications teams to craft messages that are fully consistent with our core company objectives and wider communications.
• Build a state-of-the-art ecosystem of tools, channels and formats, that ultimately ensures our colleagues get the information they need, where and when they need it.
• Provide best practice advice and examples to support leaders in crafting and delivering communications.
• Regularly explore new ways to engage our internal communities.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have

• Experience of handling day-to-day media enquiries and management of journalists
• Experience of proactively leading and developing PR campaigns
• Demonstable experience of working with media monitoring agencies, tracking and reporting on media activity
• Demonstrable internal communications experience (ideally within a larger organisation), with a proven track record of designing and activating creative ways to bring strategy and culture to life
• Strong written communication skills, with a particularly good deal of experience in copywriting
• High confidence in your organisational skills, strong attention to detail and ability to balance multiple campaigns while sticking to the agreed timings
• Experience with managing senior stakeholders, developing trusted relationships and working with colleagues across all types of teams
• Ability to understand and empathise with our colleagues, to explore the challenges and issues they face, and how we can play a part in solving them
• Experience in the Professional Services sector (this is an advantage, but isn't essential)

Additional Information

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

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