Transactional Communications Lead (12 Month FTC)

TLDR

Shape communications strategies that empower customers during pivotal moments, while driving agile processes and enhancing overall customer experiences.

At Legal & General, we’re committed to creating communications that genuinely support and empower our members. As our Transactional Communications Lead, you’ll play a key role in shaping how our customers experience pivotal moments - ensuring every interaction is clear, timely and meaningful. If you’re passionate about customer‑centric delivery, thrive in an agile environment and enjoy turning insight into real‑world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

    What you'll be doing:

    • Owning and shaping the strategy for workplace transactional communications, aligning it with divisional and business priorities
    • Managing and prioritising the communications backlog, ensuring clear requirements and delivery alignment
    • Guiding user story creation, acceptance criteria and definition of done to support effective agile delivery
    • Communicating with stakeholders confidently and clearly, ensuring shared understanding of progress, risks and assumptions
    • Evaluating and improving customer experience by applying insight, data analytics and Consumer Duty principles
    • Driving agile ways of working across the communications programme, tracking delivery metrics and promoting continuous improvement
    • Reviewing proposed solutions, assessing alignment with strategic imperatives and advising on priorities
    • Coaching and supporting colleagues to build agile capability, encouraging self‑organisation and collaborative problem‑solving

    Who we're looking for:

    • Experience working as a Product Owner, Scrum Master or similar agile delivery role
    • Strong understanding of agile principles, frameworks and team‑level delivery practices
    • Ability to interpret and use customer insight, analytics and MI to inform decision‑making
    • Confidence engaging with technical and non‑technical stakeholders at all levels
    • Knowledge of customer journey design and customer‑centric communication approaches
    • Understanding of pensions, savings or investment products (or willingness to quickly build expertise)
    • Experience using tools such as JIRA or equivalent for backlog and sprint management
    • A collaborative, solutions‑focused mindset with the ability to coach and support others

    Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

    • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
    • Generous pension contribution
    • Life assurance
    • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
    • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
    • Competitive family leave
    • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
    • There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
    • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart 

    At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

    If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

    We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

    It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

    Legal & General Group is a prominent UK financial services provider and a major global investor, specializing in life insurance, pensions, and retirement solutions. Our focus is on safeguarding financial futures while driving societal improvement through innovative asset management and protection offerings. We stand out in the market with our extensive experience and ability to create value for both customers and shareholders.

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