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SalarySunday 21 April 2024
Salary Range
£38,295 - £42,550
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Flexible Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
Be part of our growing in-house creative agency, where you can help bring our brands to life for our 30 million customers.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Beehive In-house Agency: Social Media Content Creator
LOCATIONS: Bristol / Halifax / Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
Beehive, our in-house creative agency sits within Brands Marketing and Experience, which is part of the Consumer Relationship division. We opened our doors in 2021, and we’re now a 47 strong team of passionate designers, motion designers, artworkers, copywriters, account handlers & traffic. As we continue to grow our team, we’re on the hunt for brilliant social creative to help support the growing demand for more engaging, personalised, digital, 121 customer communications.
We sit within our Group Brands team - working in partnership with communication teams across Brands, Marketing & Experience (BMX) and the Chief Customer Office (CCO). Our focus as an in-house agency is getting under the skin of every brief - whether it’s copywriting that makes the complex simple, a personalised one-to-one campaign that drives action or in-branch material that is perfect for the time and place.
A little bit about the role...
- You’ll live and breathe social, knowing what’s trending at all times.
- Ability to create and edit your own content, knowing what works on every platform, be it Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn or Reddit.
- Take ownership for your content from conception to production. On top of that, you’ll be able to bring your ideas to life on social statics and video content.
- We’re looking for someone who can help get under the skin of our brands and challenge us from an innovation perspective - so great stakeholder skills will be essential.
- Understand what societal issues and challenges are affecting our customers and how we can inform, protect and support their short and long term needs.
- Work collaboratively with our wider creative team, including designers, copywriters, motion specialists - along with our account management and traffic teams.
- Be digitally savvy and comfortable with tech. Someone who isn’t afraid to experiment within the guidelines of our brands.
- Presenting creative work to our comms partners. You’ll be a great storyteller to bring your ideas to life, presenting work to senior team.
- You’ll have strong influencing skills, with the ability to challenge directly in a respectful and collaborative way.
- You’ll help to build a brilliant team culture, taking ownership for your career and personal development.
What you’ll need...
- A proven background in social first creative
- Extensive knowledge and appreciation for the wider social landscape
- Conceptual ability - being able to start with a blank piece of paper or to proactively suggest campaign ideas that inspire our comms partners.
- Ability to prioritise competing deadlines, balancing planned work, with the ability and mindset to be able to react to trends.
- Be culturally aware - understanding how to ensure our brands land in the right way is important. Inclusion and accessibility is at the heart of what we do.
- With 14 brands in our portfolio, you’ll know your way around a set of brand guidelines or two - building, applying, interpreting and challenging them.
- A portfolio of highly engaging social content is essential for this role.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
