Communications Business Partner

Job Description

This role is part of the Tesco Mobile team and will be based out of the Tesco Mobile (Slough, Welwyn garden city, Manchester office)

Working as Communications Business Partner, you will join Tesco Mobile in the Communications Chapter which sits within the Marketing, Brand & Comms Centre of Excellence (CoE). Within the Chapter sits a bunch of PR, social & internal comms experts, responsible for protecting, enhancing and building Tesco Mobile’s brand to deliver long-term growth. We’re a small team, fast-paced and energetic, driving the internal and external comms agenda. We also work with some great agency partners, presenting lots of opportunity to get stuck in, build your experience and make a huge impact.

Who we are

Tesco Mobile is a totally unique business, a 50/50 joint venture between VMO2 and Tesco that launched back in 2003 and has gone from strength to strength as we’ve launched into new services, markets and customer propositions.

Tesco Mobile has more than 5 million customers and is award-winning, instilling agile methodologies and cultivating a fantastic can-do attitude across it's teams. We're always on the lookout for the best talent, be that from our two shareholders or the wider industry.

Working at Tesco Mobile means being employed by one of our joint venture shareholders – Virgin Media O2 or Tesco Mobile, our Head Office vacancies are advertised under both brands. Our culture is uniquely Tesco Mobile with a great sense of community, but with all the benefits of working for one of the shareholders as well. We pride ourselves on being a company where everyone’s welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. We not only celebrate diversity but recognise the value and opportunity it brings in helping us to care for human connection – we are supermarket mobile!

The must haves

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that influence and engage senior stakeholders.
• Adaptable, inquisitive and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Tenacious and adept with leading and rallying senior stakeholders to drive actions forward
• Experience of working within Internal Comms
• Strong project management with experience in planning, delivering and evaluating internal comms strategies and events.

The other stuff we are looking for

• Responsible for the strategic direction for internal comms, creating and implementing the IC strategy at Tesco Mobile
• Measuring and improving the effectiveness of communications, using insights to refine strategy and delivery.
• Working closely with the Leadership Squad (LS) to guide, advise and challenge them on how and what they communicate to colleagues to ensure colleagues are at the heart of everything they do.
• Taking ownership of the overall business comms planner and its weekly cadence ensuring events & news land with impact at the right time.
• Event management: In addition to owning the content, managing the execution of in-person colleague conferences/events, including venue booking, invitations, set up and refreshments etc.

What's in it for you

Our goal is to celebrate our people, their lives and everything in-between. We aim to create a culture that empowers everyone to bring the best versions of themselves to work each and every day. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a brighter world.

Working at Tesco Mobile means you get a bumper reward package bursting with benefits, and loads of extras you can add if you’d like to. These are designed to support both you and your loved ones, making sure that you’re covered no matter what life throws your way.

We're all about hybrid working here, so expect to have a base location where you'll have the right facilities to enable amazing collaboration and quality time with your team, alongside all the right kit to work from home too.

Next steps

If we feel like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you as a person and your experience to date. Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include a competency based assessment.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert, therefore we may bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible. If you’re offered a job with us, it will be conditional, based on the passing of background checks. All roles require a criminal record check and some roles need a financial probity check. Your recruiter can provide you with more information if needed.

Thanks for your patience and for showing an interest in joining the Tesco Mobile family.

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