Internal Communications Manager

Job Description

Corporate Affairs

Lancaster House, Huntingdon

Permanent

Full-time 37 hours. We offer flexible working opportunities, which can be discussed further during the interview process.

Circa £55,000 per annum

Make every drop of your potential count, join our team!

You’ll lead enterprise level leadership communications, shaping a clear, consistent narrative that aligns leaders, teams and partners behind our priorities. You’ll maintain a strategic “helicopter view” across major change and growth programmes, ensuring messages are sequenced, coherent and focused on what matters most.

As the line manager for Internal Communications Leads, you’ll set direction, prioritise the most critical work, and develop capability across the team. You’ll coach and challenge senior leaders to communicate with credibility and impact, resolve competing demands, and ensure communications support culture, engagement and delivery at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise leadership communications strategy and narrative.

• Coach and advise senior leaders across Anglian Water and Alliance partners; oversee agency outputs.

• Direct and develop IC Leads; prioritise workloads to protect focus on strategic objectives.

• Reconcile competing priorities; drive crossbusiness alignment and message consistency.

• Lead the enterprise change story; sequence communications across programmes.

• Measure impact, share insight and continuously improve approaches.

What does it take to be succesful?

• Executive presence with strong influence, coaching and credible challenge.

• Strategic alignment across complex, multi organisation environments.

• Storytelling, message discipline and clarity under pressure.

• People leadership: setting standards, developing capability, managing performance.

• Collaborative, decisive and resilient; comfortable with ambiguity.

• Data informed decision making and continuous improvement mindset.

Essential Criteria

• Extensive experience leading strategic internal communications at enterprise scale.

• Demonstrated success aligning leadership messaging across multiple directorates/partners.

• Line management experience developing senior communication professionals.

• Strong judgement and stakeholder management at Director/Exec level.

• Experience supporting culture and behaviour change through communications.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%

• Private healthcare for your peace of mind

• An annual bonus scheme

• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community

• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays

• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)

• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle

• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental

• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks

• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 17th December 2025