Wood has an exciting opportunity for a Communications Manager, Corporate and Transformation to join our team on a permanent basis. You will shape and deliver clear, consistent and engaging communications that help strengthen Wood’s corporate narrative and support the company’s transformation.
As a leader within the Communications function, the role takes ownership for the design, quality and effective delivery of high functioning corporate communications, both internally and externally, setting best practice and supporting excellence across the team.
This role is open to hybrid working from our Aberdeen office.
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The Role
The role focuses on designing, planning and delivering corporate communications activities, ensuring messages are accurate, aligned and effectively executed across key channels as well as strengthening Wood’s media presence through purposeful, strategic storytelling, meaningful media relations and disciplined media posting.
You will work closely with the Communications and Marketing teams, HR, Legal, functional and business leaders, as well as external media, agencies, suppliers and partner organisations. The role is responsible for creating and delivering communication plans and outputs, shaping messaging, standards and processes, and providing insight and recommendations to communicators and business leaders. You will also identify, escalate and mitigate communication risks and sensitivities, and hold line management responsibility to ensure high‑quality delivery, alignment and ongoing professional development.
Our Clients and Projects
Wood delivers solutions across more than 50 countries with local offices covering all major energy and materials hubs globally.
For more than 160 years, we have partnered with clients to deliver engineering, advisory and operational solutions to some of the world’s most complex and critical challenges in energy and materials.
What we can offer
1. Meaningful and interesting projects across the energy and materials sectors.
2. Flexible working arrangements that balance team and individual needs offering hybrid working arrangements
3. Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
4. Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
5. Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
6. Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
7. Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Expected:
8. University degree or equivalent experience in communications or related field
9. Extensive experience in communications or marketing, ideally in an international B2B environment
10. Strong writing, editing and content creation skills
11. Experience delivering corporate, change or internal communications
12. Understanding of communication channels and digital tools
13. Good organisational and project management capability
14. Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
15. Manage sensitive information with professionalism and discretion
16. Work effectively with colleagues from different cultures and contribute to a globally aware team environment
17. Understand business priorities and translate them into clear, practical communication solutions
18. Write high quality, engaging and audience appropriate content across multiple formats and channels
19. Contribute ideas that improve the quality and effectiveness of communications and support continuous improvement
Desirable:
20. Exposure to media management
Personal Attributes:
21. Clear communicator with strong attention to detail
22. Collaborative and team oriented
23. Proactive and solutions focused
24. Professional, resilient and adaptable
25. Able to build trusted, open and collaborative relationships across the business
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