Communications Manager

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title:

Employee Communications Manager

Location:

Cambridge or London, UK - Hybrid (50% working time at the office)

Employment Type:

Full time, permanent

You will shape and deliver high-impact employee communications that help colleagues understand AVEVA’s strategy, priorities and progress. With a strong focus on executive-level communications, you will advise and partner closely with an assigned members of our Executive team from R&D, Portfolio and Strategy, helping them communicate with clarity, credibility, and with the right tone across the right channels.

This role is ideal for a strategic internal communicator who can translate complex or technical topics into simple, engaging narratives that drive understanding, alignment and action.

• Executives are well-prepared and confident delivering strategic messages with consistent narrative, tone and clarity.
• Employees demonstrate improved understanding of strategic priorities (as evidenced through feedback, Q&A themes, pulse/sentiment inputs and channel metrics).
• Major moments (e.g., All Hands) are delivered smoothly with strong content quality, message pull-through and measurable engagement.
• Communications are accessible, inclusive and channel-appropriate across global audiences.

• Partner with senior leaders as a trusted advisor, shaping messaging, tone of voice, timing and channel approach for strategic employee communications.
• Develop executive-ready content (narratives, key messages, briefings, talking points, scripts, FAQs and sensitive-topic responses).
• Translate complex/technical topics into clear, human and employee-relevant communications tailored to audience and context.
• Provide proactive counsel by anticipating employee questions, risks and “what it means for me” implications and advising leaders accordingly.
• Lead communications for major engagement moments (e.g., Global All Hands), including storyline, run-of-show, speaker coordination, rehearsal support and follow-up.
• Ensure alignment across leaders and functions, partnering with comms colleagues and SMEs to avoid duplication and maintain consistent enterprise messaging.
• Maintain high editorial and accessibility standards, ensuring communications are accurate, plain-language, inclusive, channel-fit and appropriately reviewed.
• Use insights and feedback to improve impact, tracking engagement/qualitative themes and refining leader communications and channel effectiveness over time.

• Significant experience delivering employee communications, including strategic/change communications (typically 5+ years).
• Demonstrable experience supporting senior stakeholders with messaging and communications planning (multiple stakeholders preferred).
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, including the ability to translate complex/technical topics into clear and engaging employee communications.
• Strong project management capability: able to manage multiple work streams, competing deadlines and stakeholder inputs with discipline and calm.
• Strong judgement, attention to detail and professionalism handling sensitive information.

• Experience supporting Product, R&D/engineering, Portfolio or Strategy organisations (or similarly technical environments).
• Experience delivering communications to global audiences and across time zones.
• Familiarity with common internal comms channels and virtual engagement formats.

We’re focused on the single most important part of AVEVA’s business: our employees. From recruitment and reward to experience and engagement, our partnerships across the business create and enable the conditions for every…