Are you someone from a communications background?
Can manage multiple tasks and complex projects?
Self motivated, confident, energetic and creative?
This is a great opportunity for someone that wants to continue to build on their existing career in communications and become the next Communications Executive for Travis Perkins plc.
Role Purpose
To support the Head of Corporate Communications and wider plc in building the company’s reputation internally and externally by providing first class communications services that are coordinated and efficient, and focused on helping to deliver on the Group’s corporate objectives based on our shared values.
This means providing support for the proactive development and management of engaging, and positive content to help keep people internally and externally well informed about our Group strategy and culture across multiple channels.
This is a hybrid based role with occasional travel 1-2 times per week to our Northampton Head Office. Occasional travel will be required to London and branches.
What you’ll do
This is a full- time role which will be responsible for helping to develop and maintain internal communications projects, such as:
- Research, write and develop media rich content (Stories, Blogs, Updates, Announcements) for our social media channels, plc website, internal group newsletter and intranet
- Advance our social media strategy and content plan
- Monitor media mentions, respond to queries and complaints, identify and escalate issues
- Manage press office enquiries, inside and outside of office hours
- Assist with crisis communications as and when required
- Ensure our plc website content is accurate, up to date, consistent and compliant
- Conduct regular reviews of our social media channels and plc website, utilising analytics to optimise, identify and implement ways to boost engagement
Is this you?
This is a busy role, so we’re looking for someone with initiative, energy and tenacity, who can react quickly whilst remaining calm under pressure. Of course, It goes without saying that you’ll have clear and concise written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distil messages and tailor information for different audiences. You will also have experience of working and managing multiple projects to tight deadlines.
You also need to be confident and collaborative, with excellent interpersonal and influencing skills. .
Our people:
We have a clear ambition to be an inclusive, diverse and equality driven employer, which reflects the wide-ranging communities we serve. We are proud of our differences and work hard to make the most of our diversity ensuring every colleague feels that they belong, can be themselves and make contributions that are valued no matter their background. At the heart of this is our belief in “you be you, it makes us, us”
What’s in it for you?
Joining Travis Perkins means joining a reputable and expanding business offering great company benefits such as discounts across our businesses and the support of an employer who values your development as much as you do.
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Competitive performance related bonus
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses
A bit about us
As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!
