Location: Reading, United KingdomIn fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Internal Communications Business Partner

Open to basing role out of any Thales location - must be willing to travel

Are you looking for your next challenge? If you are confident working in a fast paced environment and have a background developing creative communications and imaginative campaigns, this is the perfect role for you!

What the role has to offer

Full communications exposure across Thales, in return visibility with maximum stakeholder engagement

Opportunity to join a well-established knowledgeable team

Prospect to bring fresh ideas and creative thinking

Our Opportunity

Provide expert strategic advice and delivery of the Internal Communications strategy across Thales UK with a strong focus on enabling leadership and helping employees understand their role in delivering our priorities. You’ll be responsible for developing, shaping and delivering internal communications to inspire and engage colleagues across Thales. 

Key responsibilities

Working within a small, collaborative and established team with a great reputation, you’ll play an integral part in shaping how we speak with and engage our employees. You’ll drive business engagement by developing relationships across BLs, Group and functions to deliver best practice internal communications to create employee engagement and advocacy. Key activities include but will not be limited to:

Applying effective strategic communication advice, guidance & planning aligned to business priorities to create employee engagement and advocacy

Proactively creating and delivering engaging and dynamic content themed to the overall Thales story through appropriate communications channels

Providing communications best practice, creative ideas and latest techniques to drive continuous improvement

Use employee insight and sentiment to proactively identify employee communication needs

Measurement & evaluation analysis, by tracking the effectiveness of all activities against predetermined objectives

Evaluate and develop a range of channels which effectively reach all employees and encourage 2-way conversations

Drive employee advocacy by increasing awareness of all Thales activities amongst employees

Coaching and leading the Internal Communications Coordinator (dotted line report)

About you

Ideally, you’ll:

Possess a strong internal communications background, with the ability to present complex material in a clear, concise and understandable way

Have experience in working with senior leaders and helping them develop and articulate clear messages for their teams

Have previous experience coaching and leading more junior team members - desirable

Be able to demonstrate strategic thinking, strong business acumen, audience understanding and critical thinking

Be an experienced internal communications specialist with interpersonal influence, active listening, natural coaching with effective communication output

Have experience of project management; outcome focused, meeting strict timelines, planning and measurement

Have experience across: content development; speaking & presentation, channel management, message creation and dialogue enablement

Have a desire to seek and implement new ways of engaging employees through personal development and networking with other communications professionals.

Benefits at Thales

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include a pension plan, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance programme.

In addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs. You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including: healthcare cash plan, health assessments, family cover private medical insurance, buying/selling annual leave, gym membership discounts + much, much more. You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site!

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a bonus, 27 days annual leave + 1 company day + UK public holidays, a Friday lunchtime finish as well as the opportunity to volunteer up to 3 days to support local charities/communities in which we work.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment,if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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