Senior Project Communications Manager

Overview

In this role you lead project communications across Scotland’s construction delivery, shaping stakeholder engagement and protecting reputation. You’ll embed communications in project delivery, collaborate with on-site teams, and support customer objectives and governance. You’ll develop the regional communications community, ensure standards, and drive impact for growth and market positioning. This is a cross-functional, frontline leadership role with a clear focus on delivering clear, coordinated communications at scale. You will play a pivotal part in crisis readiness and high-profile communications, contributing to the company’s mission to enable essential infrastructure.

Pay / Benefits

• Smart working with up to 40% remote work
• 25 days paid annual leave
• family-friendly maternity/adoption leave and paternity/partners leave
• pension
• share incentive plan
• volunteering leave

Responsibilities

• Lead and line-manage project communications teams to align with business priorities and customer requirements
• Support delivery of the One Comms Collective strategy across projects through leadership and standard-setting
• Develop the regional Project Communications community to ensure capability and resources
• Oversee stakeholder engagement, customer communications, community relations and employee engagement to support objectives
• Engage with project teams on-site to understand priorities and provide practical communications support
• Deliver opportunities to raise project, business and people profile to support growth and relations
• Set and govern consistent communications standards, processes, and reporting across projects
• Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, customer, governance and brand requirements
• Manage reputational and communications risks and opportunities across projects and programmes
• Build senior customer relationships and advise on communications and reputation matters
• Utilize data and feedback to improve delivery, promote learning and share best practices
• Collaborate with Group Communications, Media Relations, Public Affairs on high-profile matters
• Lead crisis communications planning and response with robust processes
• Contribute to bids and business development with practical communications inputs

Key requirements

• Extensive communications leadership experience in infrastructure, engineering, construction or a similar complex environment
• Strong knowledge of stakeholder management, customer communications, community relations and reputation management
• Experience managing sensitive and complex issues
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and able to manage competing deadlines
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• relationship building
• communication clarity
• problem-solving
• Microsoft Office

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