About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team for a 12-month contract.
Corporate Social Responsibility is an integral part of Tesco's core purpose, to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day. Through our Stronger Starts Community Strategy, we want to champion children’s health, helping Ireland’s next generation to have stronger starts.
Internal Communications serves as a core supporting function to the success of the business, ensuring our 13,500+ colleagues feel informed, engaged, and inspired about working and shopping at Tesco.
Working within the Corporate Affairs function, the Head of CSR and Internal Communications leads the development and delivery of both the Stronger Starts community strategy and the Internal Communications strategy for the Irish business, enhancing and protecting our reputation internally and externally.
You will be responsible for
- Strategic development and delivery of the ROI Community strategy under Stronger Starts, driving enhanced positive customer and stakeholder perception of Tesco’s contribution to society.
- Strategic development and delivery of the ROI Internal Communications strategy, from campaigns through to channel management, which supports business objectives on Great Place to Work and to Shop
- Lead internal and external advocacy and governance for both strategies, working closely with the wider communications teams.
- Management of a direct and indirect team of reports to deliver the operational execution of our Community strategy (Stronger Starts, Community Fund, Charity Partnership, Surplus Food Donations Programme) and Internal Communications strategy.
You will need
- A strategic approach with the ability to see the big picture whilst also understanding the importance of detail.
- Excellent communication skills, results oriented and a driven personal style that flourishes in a fast-paced environment.
- An understanding of the differences in internal and external audiences for each strategy.
- Experience managing a diverse programme of activities and strong multi-tasking capabilities.
- Experience in delivering large cross functional projects and project management.
- Experience being a people manager with a track record for leading high performing teams.
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. Through initiatives like the Tesco Community Fund, our association with Children’s Health Foundation, our partnership with FoodCloud and our Stronger Starts programme, we have supported over 21,000 community groups, raised over €7.5 million for medical equipment, and provided almost 15 million meals nationwide, to those living in food insecurity.
Tesco has operated in the Irish retail market since 1997, and with 170 stores nationwide, we employ over 13,000 people in cities and towns around Ireland, supporting almost 45,000 jobs directly and indirectly. We partner with over 500 Irish suppliers - of which almost three-quarters are small and medium enterprises - which in turn supports almost 13,000 farming families around Ireland. Tesco is the single largest buyer of Irish food and drink in the world, buying €1.6 Billion a year; more than any other single country in the European Union, more than even the USA which you perceive as a massive buyer of Irish food.
We work closely with suppliers across Ireland who are dedicated to making the best products for our customers and this is reflected in the numerous awards our products have won over the years including Blás Na hÉireann, World Steak Challenge and Great Taste Awards.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
We have embraced a blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
We are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We’ve taken steps to ensure our stores are places where everyone feels welcome to shop too, with colleagues all trained to support those with a visible or hidden disability through the Sunflower Lanyard programme.
We’re a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you.
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. We're committed to providing a fully inclusive recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click http://roi.tesco-careers.com/accessibility/
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What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:
- Competitive Salary
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Life Assurance Cover
- Annual Bonus
- Our Virtual GP service provides free and confidential access to an online GP through video GP consultations, and online prescription service for colleagues. The service is also available to families of colleagues who live at the same address for a reduced cost.
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and family members for in the moment emotional support along with free access to a range of wellbeing services supporting you under our new Wellbeing First approach of Body, Mind and Life.
- Colleague Clubcard offering 10% discount across stores and online, with 15% discount weekends once a month (Friday to Sunday), and 20% off twice a year. There is also 20% off F&F clothing, all year long, these various discounts can be extended to a family member with a 2nd Clubcard available.*
- Annual leave
- Save As You Earn Scheme
- Entry requirements and rules of the scheme apply
