Employee Communications Officer

Our Group Corporate Affairs Department is looking for an Employee Communications Officer in Baar, Switzerland. This role will sit within the Group Corporate Affairs function, working directly with the Head of Employee Communications and the wider team. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing employee engagement and advocacy at Glencore through effective communications, culture and change management strategies. They will collaborate with various departments to implement communications initiatives that resonate with our diverse global workforce.

The main tasks and responsibilities include:

• Implement communications, change communications and culture strategies: Partner with commodity departments and functions, such as Human Resources, to identify communication needs, develop campaigns, build content and project manage initiatives to enhance employee engagement advocacy, and talent retention.
• Event management: develop and project manage virtual and in-person internal events, townhalls and workshops covering the end-to-end process from planning to content development to implementation.
• Promote organisational culture: Drive campaigns that promote a culture of openness, transparency, collaboration, and effectiveness in line with Glencore-s Values of safety, integrity, responsibility, openness, simplicity, and entrepreneurialism.
• Leverage communications channels: Utilise a range of digital and analogue communications channels and platforms to reach diverse employee demographics for both assets and offices.
• Campaign execution: Implement innovative campaigns leveraging employee communications to support (digital) transformation, culture enhancement, and organisational change.
• Brand consistency: Ensure there is consistency in line with the Glencore brand and design guidelines across all Group employee collateral.
• Monitor engagement: Track employee sentiment, engagement and morale using analytical tools in to enhance employee communications campaigns and inspire, motivate and enable high performance.

Qualifications and experience:  

• Bachelor's degree or qualification in communications, Human Resources, organisational psychology, change management or a related field preferred.

• 3 - 8 years of relevant working experience

• Project leadership experience: Exhibited project leadership and change management capabilities with experience in rolling out initiatives across multiple locations and delivering results in a complex environment.

• Event management experience: experience in project managing internal events, townhalls or workshops.

• Strategic mindset: A strategic thinker equipped to develop and implement strategic communications, culture and transformation initiatives that align with organisational goals.

• Subject matter expertise: Experience and skills in corporate communications, culture, change management, employee engagement or internal communications preferably within the mining industry or a related field.

• Global experience: Experience in navigating complex, global organisations with diverse business units and geographical locations.

• Relationship building skills: Strong interpersonal abilities capable of forging relationships, collaborating with senior leaders and influencing stakeholders throughout all levels of the organisation.

• Technical proficiency: Proficient in utilising communications and engagement methodologies, digital and analytics tools, and platforms e.g. intranets, engagement tools and digital collaboration platforms.

• Communications capabilities: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and adept at tailoring messages and communications initiatives to a wide range of audiences - at both assets and offices. 

• Language proficiency: Native or fluent English speaker required, with other languages being a benefit.

Our Ideal Candidate:

• is motivated, and a true team player with a high level of trust and integrity 
• is able to prioritize appropriately and work well in a time-sensitive situation 
• has a problem-solving mind-set and takes initiative
• is a motivated person
• is diligent, detail oriented but is also able to see the big picture
• eligibility to work in the Switzerland - Swiss citizen, Swiss B/C permit or EU passport holder

About Group Corporate Affairs

The mission of Glencore-s Group Corporate Affairs team is to strengthen and enhance Glencore-s reputation and be recognised as a trusted partner, so customers and stakeholders invest in us and want to do business with us, and potential and current employees want to work for us because they recognise and value we bring and the necessary role we play, and act on that basis.

We do this by engaging proactively and meaningfully with all relevant stakeholders to:

·       Protect and strengthen our reputation and brand globally and in key geographies

·       Unite employees around the company-s ambitions to foster a high-performance culture

·       Manage political and regulatory risk effectively

Benefits

• We are committed to providing benefits, which promote mental, physical, and financial well-being. From healthy meal options in our restaurants and bistros to free use of the in-house gym including sport classes with professional trainers.
• We reimburse public transport for commuting to work; alternatively, we offer free parking space.
• We provide tuition assistance for further education and training courses.
• We have a competitive parental leave policy. Our childcare benefits also include emergency childcare services and financial assistance towards daycare costs.
• Employees- Swiss Pension 2nd pillar is fully paid by Glencore.

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world-s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.

With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore-s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.

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