About the role
The Internal Communications Manager is responsible for planning, creating, and delivering clear, engaging, and impactful communications that strengthen employee understanding of company goals, culture, and initiatives.
This role partners closely with leaders and teams across the business to ensure employees are informed, connected, and aligned.
You will manage the current internal communications platform, whilst also optimising other internal platforms such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and explore alternative employee engagement apps.
What matters most in this role
- Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
- Empathetic communicator who understands diverse audiences.
- Strong attention to detail with a commitment to high-quality work.
- Enthusiastic about building culture and employee connection.
- Passionate about building strong relationships with Stakeholders across the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning
- Develop and execute internal communications strategies that support business priorities, cultural initiatives, and organisational change.
- Advise leaders on communication best practices and help shape messaging for key internal announcements.
- Create and maintain the internal comms plan aligned with business objectives, including a clear schedule of internal comms, working closely with our Marketing team.
Measurement & Reporting
- Track performance of communication channels and campaigns, using data to recommend improvements.
- Prepare periodic reports summarising engagement metrics, trends, and opportunities.
- Content Creation & Delivery
- Write, edit, and distribute high-quality internal content including intranet posts, internal comms documents, podcast/video scripts and draft HR copy for people updates.
- Manage the intranet as a key internal comms communication channel for staff.
- Produce engaging multimedia content such as short videos, employee stories, and visuals where needed.
Employee Engagement
- Support the planning and delivery of company-wide events such as town halls and employee engagement campaigns.
- Partner with the Talent Acquisition, L&D, HR Advisory and wider HR teams to promote initiatives for staff that improve employee engagement
- Partner with Marketing, Compliance, IT, Finance and our Partners & Directors as the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to coordinate key internal comms messages
- Monitor employee feedback and adjust messaging and channels to maximise engagement
What we expect of you
- Proven experience in internal communications, employee engagement, or corporate communications.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with confidence advising senior leaders.
- Experience managing multiple communication channels and formats.
- Ability to work under pressure with excellent organisational and project-management skills.
- Experience supporting change management programmes would be a distinct advantage.
Why Workman?
- Hybrid working to offer you a great work life balance, with a minimum of three days in the office.
- Core working hours to allow for added flexibility and helps ease your commute to the office.
- Study support
- Discretionary annual bonus and salary reviews.
- Healthcare, life insurance & wellness programme.
- Long service additional holidays, your birthday off and an extra day between Christmas and New Year.
- Lifestyle benefits to suit you: gym membership, cycle to work, buy and sell holiday to name just a few.
- Social events throughout the year including a firm wide Christmas party!
- Generous referral bonus.
About Workman
As the UK’s leading independent commercial property management specialist, Workman has an enviable position within the property industry.
We are proud of our longstanding relationships with many of our clients, some of whom we have worked with for more than 25 years. Our clients include leading institutional and sector-specialist investors, private property companies, public sector bodies and a growing number of overseas investors.
We pride ourselves on the calibre of our employees and their unique skill sets.
Equal opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer, and it is our policy to recruit a diverse workforce and follow the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010.
Top Skills
What We Do
Workman is the UK’s leading independent commercial property management and building consultancy specialist. We offer a service dedicated solely to the fundamentals of property management and building consultancy excluding other services normally associated with multi-disciplinary firms. We believe this specialist combination provides significant benefits for our clients.
Our property management service has been developed from working for a range of leading institutional funds, investors and property companies and the managed portfolio now totals over 4,000 properties nationwide collecting over £1.8bn in rent.
Within property management our dedicated retail team provide specialist property management services on all retail assets, including more than 90 shopping centres and 200 retail parks.
Our building consultancy specialists provide professional advice across a wide range of disciplines including due diligence, project management, defect diagnosis, contract administration and all landlord & tenant matters.
The firm has been operating for nearly 40 years and continues to achieve steady growth. We pride ourselves on the skill and calibre of our employees, with more than 750 dedicated professionals in 12 UK offices and a growing presence in France.
For more information about Workman, our services and career options please visit our website at workman.co.uk or call 020 7227 6200.
