Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Communications & Engagement Specialist - Indirect Procurement - £34/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire - 12 Months Maternity Cover

The opportunity:
The Communications & Engagement Specialist for Indirect Procurement is responsible for shaping and delivering a clear, engaging, and strategically aligned communications approach across the function. The role ensures employees are informed, connected, and equipped to support Indirect Procurement’s priorities, while strengthening culture and engagement through consistent messaging and strong cross-functional collaboration with their stakeholders and business partners, including IO Communications, and Senior Leadership.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
Internal Communications Strategy
- Lead the development and delivery of the Internal Communications strategy for Indirect Procurement, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives
- Interpret, define and deliver communication priorities, channels, stakeholders, and cadence to support clear internal engagement.

Message Development & Delivery
- Create and deliver clear, compelling, and engaging messages across all internal channels, ensuring information is easy to understand and actionable.
- Maintain strong editorial standards for tone, clarity and brand consistency across all communications.
- Recommend channel improvements, content adjustments, and new methods to strengthen employee engagement and communication effectiveness.
Able to advise where content from internal channels can be shared wider than indirect Procurement e.g Videos.

Leadership Communication Support
Develop effective leadership communication materials, including scripts, talking points, presentations, and briefing packs.
- Advise leaders on communication approach, messaging, and audience engagement to support visibility and impact.

Change Communication
- Lead and coordinate change communication activity relating to processes, systems, organisational changes, and strategic initiatives.
- Translate complex changes into clear narratives that support awareness, understanding, and adoption across the function.
- Working with internal change champions – pulse related and using them to deliver key messages rather than just through a technology

Cross-Functional Partnership
- Work closely with HR, IT, senior leaders, IO Communications, and broader Procurement teams to ensure alignment on culture, engagement, and messaging.
- Support cross-functional initiatives by delivering communication plans that connect teams and enable cohesive storytelling across the business.

Events Planning & Delivery
- Plan and coordinate key departmental events, including Town Halls, Learning Sessions, and Social Connects.
- Deliver high‑quality events in partnership with key speakers, ensuring Indirect Procurement teams remain engaged and informed on business updates and upcoming developments.

Supplier Communication Alignment
- Manage and refresh the Indirect Procurement Supplier distribution list
- Engage with the Supplier Relationship Management team to deliver key supplier events and messages aligned to the communications strategy

Other
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time.

Key Performance Indicators
- Communications strategy reviewed and refreshed twice per year, to reflect enterprise priorities
- Stakeholder map reviewed and refreshed every quarter, measuring impact through feedback
- 100% of leadership communication products (briefings, scripts, packs) delivered on time and to expected quality standards
- 100% of communication plans and events delivered to agreed timelines
- Minimum of 1 communication improvement implemented per quarter based on data, insights, and stakeholder feedback (e.g., channel optimisation, format changes, improved content sequencing)

Key Interactions
- Indirect Procurement Senior Leadership Team
- Indirect Procurement Category Teams
- Indirect Procurement Business Partners
- Procurement Business Managers
- Supplier Relationship Management Team

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Previous experience and background internal communications accompanied with a proven track record of successful delivery of the aligned communications and engagement strategy, to diverse audiences.

Functional Skills:
- Experience of delivering a communication and events plan from formation to execution
- Experience in end-to-end delivery of departmental events (Town Halls, Learning Sessions, Social connects)
- Knowledge of communications and engagement theories to develop a specific strategy for the functions needs.
- Development and maintenance of multiple communication channels to ensure alignment to type of communication (SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, Social Media etc.)
- High level of competency using Microsoft programmes such as PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- Able to create engaging videos for internal channels and reviewing opportunities for sharing further than indirect Procurement.

Interpersonal Skills:
- Ability to work independently and proactively, taking full ownership and responsibility for own work; fully invested in achieving a successful result.
- You view things as a team rather than individual project level, considering the wider team needs.
- Strong interpersonal/communication skills, including ability to manage self and lead the wider function through change.
- Strong stakeholder relationship management and can communicate effectively at all levels.
- Ability to coordinate, collaborate and influence

Personal Profile
- Someone with integrity & empathy who holds the customer experience above all else, even when it is challenged.
- Someone who embraces a growth mindset; resilient and enthusiastic who responds constructively to new ideas and inputs.
- An individual with the ability to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.
- Someone who understands their impact, who can work independently, is motivated by results, demonstrates tenacity, drive and perseverance with the ability to deliver solutions in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- An individual with the capability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with medium term planning.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
The role is for a 12 month period covering maternity leave.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.