Internal Communication Specialist

Position Title:Internal Communication Specialist
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 44185
Internal Communications Specialist - Change and Commercial
Scarborough or Schiphol - Hybrid office working
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role .
Join a team where communication creates real business impact. You'll lead the delivery of engaging communications around change and commercial priorities, ensuring employees and leaders across GB & EMENA stay informed, connected and inspired. From strategic transformation programmes to fast-moving business updates, you'll play a key role in helping our people navigate change and succeed together.
What you'll be doing.
Leading Change & Transformation Communications
You'll play a central role in helping our people navigate change with confidence. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll develop communication strategies that bring transformation initiatives to life, creating clear, engaging and human-centred messaging that builds understanding, trust and alignment across the business.
Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the trusted communications partner for regional change and transformation initiatives.
• Developing end-to-end communication plans that connect business priorities to employee experiences.
• Turning complex or sensitive topics into clear, engaging and accessible communications.
• Equipping leaders and managers with toolkits, briefing materials, FAQs and key messages to communicate with impact.
• Tailoring communications for diverse audiences across office, plant and frontline environments.
• Using feedback and engagement insights to continuously refine communication approaches and maximise effectiveness.

Bringing Commercial Priorities to Life
You'll help employees connect with the commercial goals that drive our success, transforming business strategy into stories that are relevant, engaging and meaningful.
Key responsibilities include:

• Building strong partnerships with Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Category and customer-facing teams.
• Translating market trends, customer insights and business priorities into compelling employee communications.
• Creating impactful stories and case studies that showcase collaboration, customer success and business performance.
• Supporting commercial leaders with engaging presentations, speaking notes and leadership communication materials.
• Connecting perspectives from across the business to demonstrate how teams work together to achieve shared goals.

Delivering High-Impact Business Communications
From fast-moving business updates to sensitive organisational announcements, you'll provide expert communications support when it matters most.
Key responsibilities include:

• Leading or supporting high-priority communications across a wide range of business topics.
• Managing time-sensitive communication requests with sound judgement, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Supporting the delivery of communications relating to emerging issues, significant business updates and critical moments.
• Developing scalable communication resources, templates and guidance that enable effective message delivery across the organisation.

Contributing to a High-Performing Regional Communications Team
As part of an integrated regional team, you'll collaborate closely with colleagues to deliver communications that inform, engage and inspire.
Key responsibilities include:

• Contributing to major regional campaigns, leadership communications, employee events and strategic storytelling initiatives.
• Creating high-quality content across multiple channels while maintaining a consistent brand voice and editorial standard.
• Collaborating across the team to share expertise, support priorities and ensure seamless delivery.
• Leveraging digital and AI-enabled tools to enhance content creation, localisation, measurement and effectiveness.
• Driving continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, share best practice and increase communication impact.

What you'll need to be successful.
We're looking for a skilled communications professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about helping people understand, navigate and embrace change. You'll be an exceptional storyteller, trusted advisor and relationship builder, capable of translating complex business priorities into communications that inform, engage and inspire.
You'll bring:

• Significant experience in internal, corporate or change communications within a complex organisation.
• A proven ability to simplify complex information and transform it into clear, engaging and audience-focused communications.
• Experience supporting organisational change, transformation programmes or sensitive business initiatives with confidence, empathy and sound judgement.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to translate business, customer and market insights into meaningful employee communications.
• Outstanding writing, editing and storytelling skills, with excellent verbal and written English.
• The ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders across multiple functions, levels and geographies.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset, coupled with the confidence to challenge constructively, advise senior leaders and work independently when required.
• Confidence using digital communication platforms and content creation tools to deliver impactful communications.

Nice to Have
While not essential, we'd be particularly excited to hear from candidates who have:

• Experience working within FMCG, food manufacturing or another large, complex multinational business.
• A track record of communicating across different countries, cultures and employee audiences.
• Experience developing content for town halls, all-hands meetings, leadership events, webcasts or large-scale employee communications.
• Exposure to content localisation, translation management or adapting communications for regional markets.
• Experience using AI and digital tools to enhance communication quality, efficiency and insight generation.
• Dutch language skills (for candidates based in Amsterdam).

About the team .
You'll join a regional Internal Communications team of three, reporting into a structure led by the Director of Internal Communications, alongside a Business Partner and another Internal Communications Specialists. This close-knit team works together to shape and deliver communications strategy across the region.
About McCain .
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Leadership principles .
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The McCain experience .
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
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Job Family: Communications
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough || NL - Netherlands : Other : Reference job description
Company: McCain Foods Holland B.V.