Lead Communications Advisor

Join us in this role where you'll be responsible for bringing Ørsted's global employee communications and engagement strategy to life across the UK. You'll translate corporate narratives into meaningful, locally relevant communications and engagement initiatives that resonate with employees and leaders alike. 

 

Working closely with colleagues across Global Communications, HR, leadership teams, and local stakeholders, you'll help create clarity during periods of change, strengthen employee engagement, and ensure that the voices and perspectives of UK employees inform our global approach. 

   

Welcome to Global Employee Communications & Engagement  
 

You'll be part of the Global Employee Communications & Engagement team within Global Communications, where you, together with your colleagues, will work to connect employees to Ørsted's strategy, purpose, culture, and transformation journey. 

 

The team operates across multiple markets, combining global consistency with local relevance. As our UK Lead, you'll act as a key partner to leaders and stakeholders across the business, ensuring employees understand our direction, feel engaged in our mission, and have opportunities to share their perspectives and feedback. 

 

You'll collaborate closely with colleagues across Global Communications, HR, Strategy, Transformation teams, and local leadership to strengthen organisational alignment and employee experience. 

   

You'll play an important role in: 

  • translating global employee communications strategies and organisational narratives into clear, locally relevant communications for UK employees 

  • leading engagement activities across the UK, including town halls, leadership forums, and other initiatives that strengthen connection to Ørsted's strategy, purpose, and culture 

  • enabling leaders to communicate effectively through messaging support, communication toolkits, and communications coaching 

  • supporting organisational change and transformation initiatives by helping leaders communicate with clarity and helping employees navigate change confidently 

  • gathering employee insights through surveys, listening activities, and engagement forums to inform communication and engagement strategies 

  • providing strategic communications advice to senior stakeholders while ensuring alignment between local market priorities and global communications frameworks. 

 

To succeed in the role, you: 

  • have substantial experience in internal communications, employee engagement, corporate communications, public relations, or a related discipline 

  • have experience supporting senior leaders with leadership communications, stakeholder engagement, and organisational change initiatives 

  • have a proven ability to influence and build strong relationships across complex, matrixed organisations 

  • have experience designing and delivering communication campaigns, engagement programmes, and change communications activities 

  • are skilled at gathering and interpreting employee feedback and translating insights into meaningful actions and communications 

  • combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery and thrive in collaborative environments with multiple stakeholders 

 

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.  

   

Shape the future with us 
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.  

   

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.  

   

 

Position salary range:

61,920.00- 103,200.00 + pension + benefits

 

Pre-employment screening:

All offers of employment in the UK are conditional on successful completion of a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Further details will be given at offer stage.

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Join a global leader in renewable energy

Ørsted is a global leader in offshore wind and is one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world. With us, you’ll play your part in creating a world that runs entirely on green energy. As a leading green energy company, we leverage the curiosity and passion of our people to innovate and develop new technologies or bring existing technologies to scale, collaborating with governments, suppliers, and our industry partners to make renewable energy solutions a reality. At Ørsted, we work together with openness and respect and seek fresh perspectives to solve any task at hand: big or small. 

About Ørsted

  • We provide countries, companies, and communities with sustainable, reliable, and cost-competitive energy solutions, including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, and energy storage.
  • Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.
  • We built the world’s first offshore wind farm, Vindeby in Denmark, in 1991, and completed the world’s largest, Hornsea 2 in the UK, in 2022.
  • We were founded in Denmark in 2006 and now have approximately 8,000 employees, working in 15 countries and counting. 

 

An inclusive team

At Ørsted, we strive to be an inclusive workplace where you’re respected for who you are, valued for the unique perspectives you bring, and rewarded fairly for what you achieve. We want all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, no matter their age, race, ethnicity, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Application deadline

31 July 2026

Location

London, GB Barrow-in-Furness, GB Grimsby, GB

Area of work

Marketing, branding and communications

Employment type

Permanent

Work hours

Full-time

Workplace

Hybrid (office and home-working)

Some of our benefits include