Senior Media Manager - Investment in London - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London

£66,000

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5

12 Jan 2026

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Role Overview

The Senior Media Manager - Investment is responsible for developing and overseeing Nest’s frontline media activity (both reactive and proactive) for Nest and Nest Invest.

This role has a specialism focussing on media handling relating to Nest’s investment approach. The Senior Media Manager will help create and deliver Nest’s media strategy and lead on the day-to-day creation and delivery of content, reactive media enquiries, and reputation management focussing on robust investment messaging and maximising opportunities for promotion.

The way Nest is presented in the media is critically important, as a scheme which is on course to be the UK’s largest pension scheme and already the largest by membership – what we do and how we invest will only become more newsworthy. The close association Nest has with government, and the successful delivery of the auto enrolment policy requires careful strategy in how the media reports its activities. This role will be involve advising senior Nest staff on media handling and building a network of journalist contacts, from national finance editors to core trade press.

Nest’s investment activities are at the heart of the organisation’s purpose, and this role should help remove barriers and empower all Nest staff to better understand the ways Nest has developed a sophisticated investment strategy. This also includes promoting how Nest has a wider impact through the way it invests, and the stewardship activities undertaken with the companies in the portfolio.

This role will need to work closely with the Investment Comms team to ensure our language and messaging around investment is rigorous, robust, compliant, and accurate for all audiences.

In addition, the individual should have the skills and experience to take a strategic approach in support of our objectives, while managing our reputation as Nest’s investment strategy grows and evolves.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

Senior press office or communications experience ideally in a regulated investment environment
Experience in the asset management space is a benefit
A good understanding of investment themes and experience in media, ideally financial media
Experience of developing and implementing media strategies with proven impact
Experience of successfully handling a range of media issues, including crisis or reputation damage-limitation situations
Extremely strong writing skills, particularly an ability to translate complex investment concepts for a relatively lay audience
Capable of juggling multiple projects and delivering to tight deadlines
Excellent planning and project management skills, with a focus on milestones, deadlines and delivery
Very well organised, with excellent attention to detail

Regulatory Requirements:

The role holder will be trained in and subject to adhere to the FCA Individual Conduct Rules as per the requirements in the FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

Please note this role does require participation in inbox and out of hours rota.

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Directorate/Department Overview

The Nest Experience directorate is responsible for developing and evolving the propositions for our customers, for the service and experience that they enjoy and working with our delivery partners to ensure their data and assets are kept safe. This includes:

Definition of our customer strategies
Developing, maintaining and evolving our customer value propositions
The brand and marketing of Nest to our customers
The design of the service experience our customers enjoy across all channels
Working with our partner, TCS, to deliver a service that delights our customers and keeps their data and assets safe

Nest’s external media team sits within Nest Experience and helps to promote Nest’s brand, proposition and policy objectives to the media and pays a crucial role in reputational and crisis management. It also works to promote Nest’s investment strategy and our market-leading responsible investment activities through Nest Invest.

Nest’s Invest’s role is to help our members enjoy a better retirement by growing their pension savings over time and to achieve strong investment returns without taking more risk than is required.

The role of senior media manager focuses on proactive and reactive media across Nest and Nest Invest and provides senior level support where needed with regards to the aims and objectives of both Nest Invest and the organisation as whole.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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