As a Communications Manager within Commercial & Investment Banking you will be writing for our global intranet and our weekly newsletter, which is distributed to more than 90,000 employees. You will also help to edit content submitted by internal partners across Communications and help to devise new ways to keep our content looking and sounding fresh. You will help to communicate business plans and successes, and lead employee engagement. In addition, you will collaborate effectively with senior executives and other teams across the Commercial & Investment Bank, including working with our design team on layouts and fresh ways to format our content.
Job responsibilities:
- Lead employee engagement by developing a steady flow of compelling stories and features that communicate the strategy, success and story of the CIB to employees; someone who can lend personality to our business stories
- Support writing and editing to tight deadlines
- Convey complex, technical information in a clear, compelling way
- Interview senior leaders across the CIB for quotes and background to develop deal stories and report on new products or technologies
- Maintain the editorial calendar and share with IC partners
- Collaborate with internal communications partners to develop story ideas
- Think creatively about new ways to present and format stories
- Proof stories before publication and have a strong focus on detail
- Partner well across various teams including business stakeholders, Legal and Compliance, and other Comms partners
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- 5+ years of work experience and hold a bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, communications or other related area.
- Superior writer with a background in journalism and/or in a similar role in corporate communications
- Experience with news and feature writing, and writing for an internal audience
- Skilled interviewer able to get the right information and data quickly
- Well-organized; comfort working under tight deadlines and on multiple high-priority pieces simultaneously
- Ability to work with designers on layouts
- Flawless accuracy in terms of grammar and information
- Meticulous attention to detail