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Centrica • United Kingdom

Senior Public Affairs Manager

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
96%

Location

92%

Hours

88%

Autonomy

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Senior Public Affairs Manager

At Centrica, our purpose is to energise a greener, fairer future. Achieving this is made possible through our family of trusted brands and businesses.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Public Affairs Team as a Senior Public Affairs Manager! As a Senior Public Affairs Manager, you will help support the public affairs team to cement Centrica’s reputation as the Responsible Energy supplier and trusted market leader. You will also devise and deliver engagement campaigns which demonstrate Centrica’s investment for long-term energy security and resilience and retain focus on sustainability goals.

About the Role:

  • Monitor political events and parliamentary business and update colleagues on relevant events.

  • Building and maintaining British Gas’ relationships with MPs, advisors and other political stakeholders, including mayoralty and local authority stakeholders, through regular face-to-face engagement, as well as email and phone communications.

  • Review casework correspondence from MPs and their teams and analyse casework trends.

  • Support on local engagement programmes, including VIP visits to our sites and assets. This may include regular travel to locations which host Centrica operational assets.

  • Collaborating with corporate affairs colleagues to create compelling campaigns, content and messaging to highlight Centrica’s contribution to the green transition and its societal and community impact.

  • Assist with strategic briefings and intelligence for senior level colleagues on Government policy.

  • Represent the business, attend meetings on behalf of the public affairs team, including external visits to Parliament and to MP energy advice events (note this may involve some travel)

  • Provide support to colleagues across Corporate Affairs where needed.

About You:

  • Experience within a political environment, either civil service, Parliament or an agency.

  • Demonstrable understanding of UK politics and parliament.

  • Drive and self-starter with growth mindset.

  • Demonstrates the required gravitas and influencing skills to support senior stakeholders.

  • Ability to pick up a brief (or multi briefs) quickly and move them forward.

What’s in it for you:

If this sounds like a good match for your skills, experience and what you’re looking for as a next step, we’d love to hear from you! In return, we will offer you:

  • Competitive salary and bonus potential.

  • Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap.

  • Pension scheme.

  • Company Funded Healthcare Plan.

  • 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days.

  • Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance.

  • Colleague-led networks which aim to empower & support colleagues from underrepresented groups.

Our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world, for everyone.

#MoreThanACareer

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!


PLEASE APPLY ONLINE by hitting the 'Apply' button.

Applications will ONLY be accepted via the ‘Apply’ button.

This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.

Company benefits

Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Enhanced sick days
Flexible working week
Enhanced sick pay
Gym membership
Health insurance
Mental health platform access
Compassionate leave
Dental coverage
Fertility treatment leave
Buy or sell annual leave
Optional unpaid leave
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Carer’s leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Cycle to work scheme
Equity packages
Life insurance
Annual pay rises
Share options
Financial coaching
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Company car
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Centrica what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
92%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
82%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
83%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
88%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
80%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
82%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
84%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
85%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
72%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Centrica

Company employees

20,000

Gender diversity (male:female)

68:32

Office locations

Windsor, London, Cardiff, Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Dublin, Stockport, Staines, Hampton, Aberdeen, Barrow, Hull

Hiring Countries

Belgium

Denmark

Ireland

Singapore

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

2nd – Large companies

2nd – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
3rd – Consumer Goods

3rd – Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023

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