People Communications Lead

About us:

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

About the role:

As People Communications Lead, you will play a pivotal part in bringing Linklaters’ people agenda to life. Reporting to the Head of People Communications, you will design and deliver creative campaigns and initiatives that support cultural alignment, employee engagement, and business transformation across our global firm.

You will act as a communications business partner to the People function, ensuring messaging is clear, consistent, and engaging for diverse audiences. Your work will support our priorities around wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, learning and development, and the firm’s values.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Shape, plan, and execute engaging communications campaigns on people priorities including wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, and values.
• Advise senior stakeholders on strategic communications, including sensitive or complex people topics and change initiatives.
• Oversee the delivery and quality of all people-focused content across multiple firmwide channels.
• Manage and develop two direct reports, supporting their professional growth and motivation.
• Collaborate with the People function on employer brand and value proposition communications.
• Monitor feedback and campaign impact, adapting strategies and content in response to evolving needs.
• Champion continuous improvement in communications by adopting new technologies, analytics, and industry best practice.
• Support and deputise for the Head of People Communications as required.

We are ideally looking for:

• Significant experience in internal communications or employee engagement, ideally within a large or professional services organisation.
• Proven track record in designing and evaluating campaigns that drive culture and business change.
• Experience providing advisory support to senior leaders on complex or high-impact communications.
• Excellent editorial skills and ability to produce compelling content for multiple internal audiences and channels.
• Understanding of employer branding and value propositions.
• People management experience with a collaborative, mentoring approach.
• Strong project management, prioritisation, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Digital fluency with communications platforms and analytics tools.

This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.

Our benefits:

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).