The Role
We are seeking a strategic and people-focused People Experience Communications Manager to lead divisional communications and employee engagement for the Supply Chain and Retail division.
This role is central to shaping the colleague experience — ensuring colleagues feel informed, inspired, and connected to our vision, culture, and ways of working.
The successful candidate will balance two core priorities:
Communications: creating and delivering clear, engaging, and consistent messages across multiple channels.
Engagement: developing initiatives and platforms that build belonging, recognition, and advocacy.
You will be the divisional owner of Uniphi, our internal engagement and communications platform, ensuring it becomes a dynamic hub for connection, recognition, and collaboration.
Working closely with the Head of Learning & People Experience and divisional leaders, you will play a key role in building an inclusive, connected, and high-performing culture.
Key Outcomes
Employee Engagement
Design and deliver engagement strategies that build connection, motivation, and advocacy across the division.
Lead divisional engagement campaigns, recognition programmes, and colleague events.
Own Uniphi: curate inspiring content, encourage participation, and drive adoption as the central channel for engagement and communication.
Partner with leaders to amplify divisional culture, values, and employee voice.
Support delivery of divisional ED&I initiatives through inclusive engagement and communications.
Internal Communications
Develop and deliver integrated communications strategies aligned with divisional goals and people priorities.
Lead change communications to support transformation, ensuring clarity, transparency, and alignment.
Produce compelling written and visual content for internal channels (Uniphi, newsletters, presentations, leadership updates).
Collaborate with group Corporate Communications and Investor Relations to support external storytelling about divisional priorities.
Ensure all communications are timely, consistent, and aligned with our brand and tone of voice.
Digital Platforms & Measurement
Manage divisional content calendars across Uniphi and other channels.
Use analytics, insights, and feedback to measure the effectiveness of communications and engagement initiatives.
Continuously refine strategies to maximise colleague connection and impact.
Key Skills & Experiences
4–6 years' experience in communications, engagement, or related people-focused roles, ideally in a complex, fast-paced business.
Strong track record in designing and delivering both communications strategies and colleague engagement initiatives.
Hands-on experience managing digital platforms (intranet, engagement apps, or colleague communication hubs).
Exceptional writing, storytelling, and presentation skills.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills — able to partner effectively with leaders and employees alike.
Organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Passionate about people experience, culture, and the role of communications in driving belonging and performance.
Degree in Communications, HR, Marketing, Journalism, or a related discipline desirable.
Uniphar – Who we are
With a workforce of more than **** employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world.
Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world's best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams.
Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.
Supply Chain & Retail
Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare, and animal health products to pharmacies and hospitals nationwide.
The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives.
In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacies to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys, and Hickeys symbol brands.
Pharma – On Demand
The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide.
We have offices in Ireland, the UK, Europe, the USA and New Zealand.
The company's main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO's and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.
Click here to find out more: About Us - Who we are | Uniphar
Some things that are important to us
Our Culture
Uniphar has grown quickly by acquisition in recent years, and while we all started from different places, there are four key pillars that we all agree underpin how we run our business:
We have a people-first approach - we do the right thing We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience are embodied in our way of working We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.
Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people, and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become richer and more diverse as a team.
This diversity fuels and strengthens our business and culture.
Being a sustainable and responsible business
Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy.
We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us.
Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term.
We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy is a fundamental part of our decision-making process.
How we'd like to work together
The role will be based out of our Citywest, Dublin HQ.
There will be an element of hybrid working available, but this role may also involve travel to our global sites.
It is important to note that we do not expect this job to be a '9 to 5' type position.
In return for your flexibility, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it.
If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.