Communications Coordinator

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving.  And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.  These include but are not limited to:

• Colleague bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here 
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

As a Communications Coordinator, you will work with all areas across the business to plan, review, edit and deliver their operational communications to our stores and centres.

You will be a content writing expert who can build simple, clear and effective communications that represent the Tesco brand and be confident at working with multiple partners to advise them on our communications principles, branding and voice.

You will be responsible for

• Partner with different customers across the business to ensure we deliver simple, concise and high quality operational communications to our colleagues through the right channels
• Build and deliver daily and weekly publications to store and centre management team
• Build engaging communications for colleagues using various digital platforms
• Build, edit and deliver communications plans for all projects landing in stores and centres, ensuring all impacts and audiences are considered
• Review and update all reference material for stores on our existing Help site
• Be the trusted guide, supporting partners to understand the right channel of communication and provide specialist expertise to support teams in delivering effective communications
• Ensure our communications meet the agreed branding, tone of voice and expression
• Meet tight deadlines to ensure reactive communications land at the right time
• Have a journalistic approach to communications, ensuring you probe partners and ask the relevant questions to ensure the message has the required impact
• Continually look for how store and centre communications can be simplified and evolve through internal knowledge sharing and standard process
• Have a solid understanding of the business and keep up-to-date with current and future systems
• Contribute to the team by covering each other’s areas and take the initiative to support team activities
• Follow our business code of conduct and always acting with integrity/due diligence
• Consistently look for ways to improve your own performance and personal development through an active PDP, learning and giving/seeking feedback to continuously improve

You will need

• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and digital design skills
• A strong networker
• Meticulous eye for detail and accuracy
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to use own initiative
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Excellent partner engagement
• Innovative
• Understanding of operations and structures for stores and distribution centres
• A good understanding of a retail business
• Journalistic approach to communications

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.