pladis Global
HR & People Communications Manager - UK&I
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Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
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What will this role achieve?
The Internal HR Communications Manager is responsible for translating the HR and people strategy into clear, engaging communications that align with pladis’ overall narrative, culture, values, and corporate brand.
They will be responsible for the delivery of all people communications, including through corporate communication channels, helping colleagues understand what’s happening, why it matters, and what it means for them.
Working in close partnership with Corporate Communications, this role acts as the single point of accountability for internal people messaging, safeguarding tone, clarity, and consistency across all channels and audiences. It plays a critical role in strengthening trust, alignment, and engagement across our UK&I colleague population.
What will be your key deliverables?
Internal people messaging & narrative
- Shape the end-to-end internal people narrative and lead on comms planning across all HR-related communication (change, reward, performance, engagement, wellbeing, IDE, policy, and culture).
- Translate complex or sensitive HR topics into clear, relevant, and accessible messaging for different colleague audiences.
- Act as a guardian of tone, sequencing, and clarity, particularly for high-impact or sensitive messages (e.g., organizational change, restructuring, pay, policy shifts).
- Ensure messaging is practical, human, and grounded in colleague reality, avoiding jargon or over-engineered comms.
Employer brand & colleague experience
- In addition to cyclical HR communications, the role will support the identification and development of proactive people stories, working closely with Corporate Communication to showcase colleagues, teams, and initiatives across the business. This includes supporting the activation of the pladis employee value proposition (EVP) through engaging campaigns and storytelling that position pladis as a great place to work.
- Ensure all HR communications, materials, and touchpoints are aligned with the pladis corporate brand and narrative, delivering a consistent employee experience across the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through to offboarding.
- Strengthen the connection between our culture, values, and everyday colleague experience through how we communicate.
- Imbed inclusion, fairness, and integrity into people messaging, ensuring all communications are accessible and resonate across diverse colleague groups.
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Channel strategy & execution
- Define and manage the internal people communications approach across channels (e.g., intranet, Viva Engage, email, digital screens, events, leader cascades).
- Ensure the right messages reach the right audiences, at the right time, through the most effective channels.
- Create toolkits, leader briefs, and cascade materials to support consistent and confident delivery by leaders and HR teams.
- Partner with HRBPs and site teams to ensure messages land effectively and are delivered in a locally relevant way while protecting core narrative.
- Continuously improve communication hygiene, reducing fragmentation and duplication across teams and channels.
Partnership with Corporate Communications
- Work in close partnership with Corporate Communications to ensure alignment between internal and external messaging, particularly where people, culture, or leadership narratives overlap.
- Coordinate timing, tone, and positioning of communications to avoid conflict or noise for colleagues.
- Support leadership communications (including senior leadership and UK&I connect forums) with clear, credible, and engaging people messages.
- Maintain strong working relationships across HR, Corporate Comms, and key functional stakeholders.
Strategic contribution & impact
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior HR leaders on how and when to communicate people topics.
- Anticipate communication risks and proactively shape messaging to support confidence, understanding, and engagement.
- Use data, feedback, and insight to assess impact and continuously improve the effectiveness of internal communications.
- Establish standards, templates, and guidance to raise overall capability and consistency of HR communications.
Key relationships
- UK&I HR Leadership Team and HR Centres of Excellence
- Corporate Communications (UK&I)
- HR Business Partners and site HR teams
- Senior leaders and functional leadership teams
- Global Communications HR Team
- Employee networks and engagement forums
Essential
Skills & Experience
- Significant experience in internal communications, HR communications, or people-focused corporate communications.
- Demonstrable experience of owning and delivering complex internal narratives across large, diverse workforces.
- Strong storytelling and writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex content without losing meaning.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and work effectively across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong judgement, discretion, and confidence when handling sensitive topics.
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Desirable
- Experience working in partnership with Corporate or External Communications teams.
- Exposure to change, transformation, restructuring, or large-scale engagement programs.
- Experience in unionized, operational, or multi-site environments.
- Background in HR, People, or organizational communications.
Personal attributes
- Practical, grounded, and outcomes-focused.
- Calm and confident under pressure, with sound judgement.
- Values-led, with a strong sense of integrity and fairness.
- Detail-oriented, while able to see and shape the bigger picture.
- Collaborative, open, and comfortable challenging to improve outcomes.
What success looks like
- Colleagues understand what’s happening, why it matters, and how it affects them.
- HR and people messages are consistent, clear, and trusted across UK&I.
- Leaders feel confident and well-equipped to cascade people messages.
- Internal people communications feel joined up, human, and on brand.
- Strong alignment between internal and external narratives relating to people and culture.
Our Winning Traits and Behaviours
- Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
- Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied, and never standing still
- Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success
- Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner, and persistent in the face of setbacks
- Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring
Diversity and inclusion
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength. We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in fostering an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.
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