Internal Communications & Employee Engagement Partner

Job description

Internal Communications & Employee Engagement Partner

Vacancy details

General information

Entity

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.

Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.

Reference

2026-173827

Position description

Domain

Programs / Customer Relations

Job field / Job profile

Communication - Specialist communications

Job title

Internal Communications & Employee Engagement Partner

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Professional, Engineer & Manager

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

What does the role look like?

Are you a proactive, creative communications professional who takes pride in delivering high-quality work? Join a team at the heart of shaping and enabling the strategy and direction of one of the world's leading aerospace organisations.

As enabling partners, our internal communication and employee engagement function collaborates with teams across the Actuation UK Global Business Unit (GBU) on a whole spectrum of initiatives and projects.

In this role you will work with the Senior Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Officer to deliver clear, relevant and timely content to build employee awareness of the strategic direction of the business. This includes supporting senior leaders communicate effectively through change as well as supporting day-to-day initiatives like wellness, compensation and benefits, onboarding, learning, training, career development, and employee engagement opportunities.

We're after a dynamic individual who is equally adept at sourcing human interest stories from scratch, organising the latest employee engagement event, to providing best practice guidance to a range of stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

Deliver the internal communication roadmap and help connect to growing

opportunities in the external world

• With our senior internal comms officer, maintain our internal

communications plans and create and schedule content across our key

internal channels including our employee app, digital screens, digital

newsletter and regular all hands meetings

• Work to shape and offer best practice around improving engagement and clarity around our internal communications channels

• Partner with a range of stakeholders i.e. senior leaders, health and safety, facilities, HR, Legal, PR teams to craft messaging and narratives that contextualise day-to-day operations and goals with our broader corporate strategy, ensuring this is engaging and inspires and motivates all employees

• Partner with a range of stakeholders include C-suite leaders to craft critical / urgent communications and advise on best practice to positively steer employees through major change

• Ensure any external opportunities are maximised and advise on crisis

communication plans where necessary

·  Drive action to increase employee participation in our employee

engagement survey, working with HR and senior leaders to show tangible

improvements

• Actively support and help our Culture & CSR Lead shape our DE&I agenda through proactive collaboration with our employee resource groups

But what else? (benefits, specificities, etc.)

• Competitive salary

• Company performance bonus scheme

• Pension scheme - up to 10% employer contribution

• Private medical insurance

• Comprehensive health cash plan

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Flexible benefits programme (buy & sell holiday allowance, discounted gym memberships, Maternity/ adoption leave- up to 52 weeks, first 26 weeks at full pay, subsequent 26 at 50% (basic pay) and Paternity/Non-Pregnant Parent/ Co-adopter leave 4 weeks full pay)

• Structured training & opportunities to progress

Candidate skills & requirements

What will you bring to the role?

Essential skills:

·  Knowledge of internal communication and employee engagement best

practice, and comfortable at forming plans that drive real results

• Ability to effectively prioritise in a fast-changing environment

• Excellent stakeholder management skills. You'll be as comfortable talking

to one of our factory workers on the shop floor as you will be working with

those in the C-suite

Desirable skills:

• A relevant professional qualification (CIPR/IOIC/CIM/PRCA etc) is highly

desirable

• Experience advising complex, matrixed organisations on major change

programmes and initiatives

• Familiarity with digital communications methods e.g. video and use of

Adobe software (e.g. Photoshop, Premier Pro etc.) or a willingness to learn

new skills in this space

• Resilient and have resolve to drive change and seek opportunity for

improvements

• Ability to think creatively and wisely and apply your influential personality

• Previous experience of writing, editing and creating content across multiple

digital and face to face channels including internal news announcements,

newsletters, and face to face forums like town halls

• Proofreading and attention to detail

• The journalistic ability to source stories from employees and around the

business, and translate these into external opportunities where appropriate

Position location

Job location

Europe, UK, England, North West

City (-ies)

Stafford Road WV10 7EH Wolverhampton