Imperial Brands PLC
Senior External Communications Manager
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Corporate Communications Manager to join our External Communications team and play a key role in shaping how our business is understood by investors and other external stakeholders.
This is a senior individual contributor role within a global organisation employing more than 25,000 people worldwide, offering the opportunity to work across a complex international business and partner with senior stakeholders across multiple functions and markets.
You will work closely with Investor Relations, Strategy, Corporate Affairs, ESG, Company Secretariat, and other key functions to develop high-quality corporate communications that bring our business strategy, performance, and overarching corporate narrative to life.
A major focus of the role will be corporate writing, particularly supporting the Annual Report, financial results, executive presentations, and other communications aligned with the corporate financial calendar.
You will join a lean, highly collaborative team where you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact and bring additional depth and expertise in listed-company communications.
Principle Accountabilities
- Lead the drafting and editing of high-quality external corporate communications, including content for the Annual Report and other key corporate channels.
- Support the consistent delivery of the company's overarching corporate narrative across external communications activities.
- Provide communications support for key events across the corporate financial calendar, including Full-Year and Half-Year Results, Capital Markets Days, and AGMs.
- Partner closely with Investor Relations to develop executive presentation materials, scripts, and other investor-facing communications.
- Translate complex strategic, operational, and financial information into clear, engaging, and impactful content for investors and broader external stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships across Investor Relations, Strategy, ESG, Corporate Affairs, Company Secretariat, and other key functions to ensure communications are accurate, consistent, and aligned.
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Skills and Experience Required
- Significant experience producing high-quality corporate communications for a FTSE 100, FTSE 250, or similarly large listed organisation.
- Demonstrable experience writing and contributing to Annual Reports and major corporate publications over multiple reporting cycles.
- Strong understanding of financial markets, investor expectations, and listed-company communications requirements.
- Exceptional writing and editing capability, with the ability to translate complex strategic and financial information into clear and compelling communications.
- Proven experience developing executive presentation scripts and corporate materials aligned with business performance, strategy, and stakeholder expectations.
- Strong business acumen, stakeholder management, and attention to detail, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-profile environment.
What We Offer
In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme, and further benefits as well as inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial, we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace, and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.
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Everyone Belongs
Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs, and of neuro-divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.
About Us
We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry, and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation, and success, all supported by our award-winning development programmes that create exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.
As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.
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