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
- 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.
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