Internal Communications Manager, Aviva

Insurance, Wealth and Retirement

£46.8-55k

+ Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary, actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s + Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

Insurance, wealth and retirement business

Open for applications

Insurance, wealth and retirement business

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Open for applications

£46.8-55k

+ Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary, actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s + Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CInsuranceFinancial Services

Company mission

With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You’ll be comfortable dealing with stakeholders at all levels, a great listener, and confident influencing both through personal impact and using relevant data and insight
Strong Internal Communications experience in a large corporate. Evidence of professional qualification or membership such as IOIC is a bonus Strong interpersonal skills – ability to listen, challenge, and flex personal style as needed with people at all levels and backgrounds
Experience delivering large communication campaigns across multiple channels and audiences, that have had a measurable impact
Demonstrable experience managing senior stakeholders and acting as a trusted advisor on all things internal communications
Evidence of budget and supplier management, with ability to write simple and clear briefs

What the job involves

This is an exciting opportunity within the Aviva Brand and Corporate Affairs Internal Communications team, based in London. This role is part of our Internal Communications team of 5 people (including this role) that partners Aviva’s largest market: Insurance, Wealth and Retirement (IWR)
We’re looking for a communications expert and trusted advisor, responsible for delivering communications that build pride, engagement, and connection across the market’s 8,000 colleagues
You’ll partner with the wider Internal Communications team to tell our market story Aviva-wide, and work on creating world-class campaigns, feeding in perspectives and needs, and tailoring/amplifying them for our audiences
When there is an appropriate business need, you’ll be the point of contact for our functional executive team members, providing strategic advice and guidance
Leading and managing internal communication campaigns, tailoring and amplifying them for our different audiences
Writing regular stories and content for our different audiences, whether that’s bringing something to life for our customer facing colleagues or briefing our senior leaders. You’ll own and deliver the communication plans around key moments in the colleague lifecycle and share stories for Group content/events
Owning the internal communications approach for DEI and partner with relevant working groups on campaigns, representing IWR
Engaging and working with our communications network, preparing agendas for meetings and creating engaging packs for use in business areas and providing advice and guidance, working on strategic initiatives and curating content

Application process

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you

Salary benchmarks

Our take

With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.

Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.

Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.

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Insights

Led by a woman

2% employee growth in 12 months

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Company

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Leadership

Amanda Blanc

(CEO, not founder)

Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.

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