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The Opportunity:

Nigel Wright Recruitment is proud to be supporting a high-profile engineering business based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the expansion of their marketing team with the recruitment of a Digital Marketing Executive. Working from a purpose-built manufacturing site with notable local significance, the company have a global presence and are well respected within the industry, supplying bespoke solutions and expertise to the defence sector. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Marketing and Communications, the Digital Marketing Executive will support the growth of the digital content for the business.

Role Profile:

• Supporting the growth of the business with a commercial focus on expanding into new sectors
• Responsible for researching and extracting target audience content via the experts within the business to produce quality blogs and articles
• Produce precise and planned internal and external communications
• Manage a marketing calendar with a mix of short and long form content pieces across the digital platforms
• Analysing website performance and reviewing the data and user behaviour in order to influence future content
• Optimising existing social media platforms with a view to expand into new platforms
• Provide regular marketing updates to the senior team

Person Specification:

• Degree educated
• Digital marketing experience in a prescribed / regulated B2B industry would be advantageous
• Demonstrable experience in producing quality content and improving SEO
• A polished professional and articulate communicator both written and verbal
• Ability to build strong working relationships
• Hardworking individual with good attention to detail

Working hours:

8:30am-4:30pm (Mon-Thurs)

8:30am – 2:00pm (Fri)

There is a hybrid approach with Monday – Thursday in the office with the ability to work from home on a Friday.

Additional Benefits:

Discretionary bonus based on personal and company performance

Nigel Wright Recruitment

Content Manager/ Content Lead

eCommerce Retail

£45k – £55k + Package

Greater Manchester, Hybrid working (2 days in the office)

The brand:

• Huge consumer brand – Highstreet brand name
• £multi-million+ turnover business, with continued growth
• Continued investment (people, technology and resource) – multi-million investment
• Award winning! FANTASTIC reputation!
• Hybrid working (2 days per week)

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and delivery the brands multi-channel content strategy, ensuring brand consistency with innovative and impactful content that customers love. Using content to tell a story..
• Ensuring content drives brand perception, awareness and engagement, which will then support the brands customer retention and ultimately sales.
• Multi-Channel content plan across, Website/ Social Media/ PR and Video. Supported by the in house Creative team (Asset creation).
• Supporting the Content Team; content marketing strategy, content calendar plan, performance and optimisation,using data to evolve strategy and future plans.
• Work with the wider marketing team; Digital/ Performance marketing, SEO, Brand and Marketing and CRM. As well as their in house Creative team.

Ideal candidate will have the following skills and experiences:

• Experienced Content Manager, previous experience managing a content strategy / content calendar, as well as people management experience.
• Previous cross channel content campaigns, working wider Digital, Creative and Brand teams.
• Ideally Ecommerce retail experience.
• Strong influencer and people management experience. Confident in idea sharing and creative thought.
• Ideally 5 years+ in a content role, with 3+ years in a Senior/ Leadership role

Better Placed Ltd

We are now expanding the Fussy family and are looking for a bright and passionate Social Media Lead to manage and grow our social channels.???? This is a super exciting opportunity to join a disruptive startup through an exciting period of growth and to build a community around the brand. The chosen candidate will work directly with the senior leadership team to drive the long term social and content strategy for fussy and execute upon this. ????????

Responsibilities ????

• To champion social media and communication across the business.
• To bring a growth mindset to building an engaged community around the brand: people within our target audience that share our values.
• Grow presence across different social media channels and expand focus from Instagram to other channels.
• Work with the senior leaders to set the overall content and social strategy.
• Creating, scheduling and publishing daily content across blog/editorial, user generated content, social media channels and email using our social and creative guidelines and templates. 
• Creating a content calendar, more detailed channel plans and developing a plan for weekly customer newsletters and blogs.
• Being engaging, funny, responsive and of-the-moment to create viral and shareable moments.
• Using your platform knowledge and creative skills to create boundary-pushing, ATTENTION-GRABBING social content using the latest affordances on each channel.
• Bringing fussy’s product offering to life creatively to drive sales.
• Managing and promoting user generated content.
• Identify and work with journalists and writers to produce engaging blog content.
• Identity new and interesting ways to operate on social or new channels for example podcast or IG live.
• Assist when required with new product shoots, including writing creative briefs and contributing to storyboards and mood boards and any other logistical requirements. 
• Explore influencer marketing and with Founders help to develop and execute our approach. This will include looking at which influencers to engage with analysing their engagement rates and competitor analysis. 
• Manage customer advocacy programmes (for example VIP group on facebook)
• Explore partnership and collaborations opportunities within direct to consumer and sustainability sectors to grow brand presence.
• Be aware of the social and email performance and competitors to identify trends and optimise performance.
• Responding to any DMs quickly and calmly and carefully dealing with customer and tech issues, if needed.
• Report any customer service issues back .
• Report into against set KPIs. 

Who you are ????

• You will love social and where it intersects. yYou will know your hashtags from your hashbrowns and your Gen Z’s from your Generation Alpha’s (we had to google that).
• A keen eye for all things design and branding.
• Experience within a similar role in social media
• Experience developing content for SEO.
• Superior grammar, splleing and copy skills.
• You should be invested in our mission: to banish single-use plastic and create a better planet for everybody. I mean who isn’t?
• Experience in coming up with creative concepts.
• Experience in working for a wellness, personal care or beauty brand is a bonus.
• Experience with direct to consumer brands and marketing is even better. Or maybe you have a passion for D2C and have one too many subscriptions.
• You will have a keen eye for detail, able to deliver regular weekly reports and updates, to a high standard. You need to know how to use a spreadsheet.
• You should be a self starter. You’re the sort of person that we can point in the right direction and you’re off!
• Strong copywriting skills.
• Ability to use Adobe suite such as photoshop or illustrator is a bonus. Or the willingness to learn.
• Be nice.

Who we are ????????

We’re on a mission to banish single-use plastic from the bathroom, with simple, effective and convenient personal care products that are backed by science not buzzwords. After launching as the highest ever grossing deodorant worldwide on Kickstarter, we launched our full ecommerce offering in June last year.

Since then Fussy has experienced 300% MoM growth, been named the UK’s Best Eco-Deodorant in Glamour Magazine, featured on This Morning and most mainstream media outlets, put in place the foundations of a world-class team of employees and advisors and have prevented over 10,000 years worth of deodorants from ending up in landfill.

We are now looking to accelerate our growth into new products and territories. We as a brand have the responsibility, consumers have the power and it’s only together we can do this. Power to your pits!

Other Details

Term: Permanent

Start date: Jan

Days/Week: 5 days per week (2 days in the office) and flex time

Probationary Period: 3 month

Holiday: 25 plus holiday, training days, mental health and charity days, flexible working.

Fussy

Social Media Manager – Tech Start-Up

London, Spitalfields

3 days a week in office

£50-£60K + bens and share options after a year of service

Salt have partnered with a revolutionary start-up that specialises in connecting early stage businesses with relevant investors. In the last 18 months my client has grown by 18% MOM and isn’t slowing down. You’ll be the first dedicated Social Media Manager for the team and will be tasked with looking after the brand, and founder’s, social media presence.

This is a highly rewarding role for an ambitious social media manager who wants to join a growing business. You’ll be working on all social output including an already popular podcast.

The Role:

· Shape and deliver a social strategy for the founder and brand.

· End-to-end social media management across LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and any other channels you see as relevant.

· Develop and deliver the brands new podcast series.

· Identify new communities and demographics to reach out to.

· Constantly be working to growing the brand’s online presence.

· Create an ambassador program by reaching out to relevant Influencers and KOL’s in industry, and monitoring progress.

· Create ‘personal brand’ guidelines for the wider company employees.

· Constantly be keeping on top of latest social media trends and making recommendations of where to move next.

· Long and short-form copywriting.

The Person:

· Proven ability to grow social media accounts across LinkedIn, Insta, and TikTok.

· Ideally some experience of ideating and producing a podcast series.

· Design skills (canva and photoshop) a big plus.

· 3+ years’ experience

What they offer you:

· Competitive basic salary

· Share options after a year of service

· Yearly company away trip

· Vitality Health Insurance

· Progression in a fast moving, growing business

Salt

Brand Manager

Contract: Permanent, Full Time,

Salary: £40,000 with excellent benefits

Location: London, UK

Hybrid Working: A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in London office, or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid. WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 11th April 2023. Availability for interviews is required week commencing 17th April (first round) and week commencing 24th April (second round).

How to Apply: To see the full job pack, please click ‘Apply’. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.

About WaterAid:

Want to use your skills in brand marketing to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.

Join WaterAid as Brand Manager to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that you’ll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

About the Team:

The Brand team works in partnership with colleagues in the UK and offices around the world providing advice and expertise on multiple campaigns with national and global reach. The team builds our brand personality and positioning, develops and protects our brand identity and crucially, drives greater awareness of WaterAid and the work we do.

The Brand Team consists of two roles and sits within the newly formed Brand and Strategic Communications Team which is part of the Communications & Fundraising Directorate.

About the Role:

As our Brand Manager you will champion our global brand. With your astute brand marketing and influencing skills you will build strong relationships across the organization and inspire staff to be enthusiastic brand ambassadors.

You will work in partnership with internal teams and external suppliers to ensure that activities reflect our personality and values and positively reinforce who we are and what we do.

You’ll also:

• Support the roll out of brand awareness activities working closely with specialist teams such as creative content and digital.
• Following a comprehensive review of our Brand (TBC), deliver new and revised collateral. Write creative briefs and manage projects through to completion.
• Manage and promote the brand hub on the intranet, providing teams with clear guidance, key messages and core assets to support the creative and consistent implementation of the brand.

About You:

• Proven brand marketing experience, with an understanding of the full marketing mix.
• Strong experience in working proactively with internal stakeholders – able to negotiate, challenge and influence effectively at all levels and across multiple disciplines. Building brand love and inspiring staff to be enthusiastic brand ambassadors.
• Experience of successfully developing, promoting and implementing brand guidelines (visual and verbal).
• Experience of managing complex projects, suppliers (including printers and translators) and budgets.
• Excellent copy writing and editing skills; able to communicate compelling messages to a broad range of audiences.

Our Benefits:

• 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
• We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangement
• Season Ticket Loan
• Free annual eye tests
• Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
• Sabbaticals
• Volunteer Day

Our Commitment

An inclusive workplace:

We are committed to being an organisation where everyone is included, respected, and empowered to be their best. We represent and celebrate our staff, partners and everyone we work with, and create a culture where everyone can reach their full potential.

Equal opportunities:

We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.

Safeguarding:

We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously.

WaterAid

Social Media Assistant

Freelance – Paid

10 hours a week

Shifting Vision is a creative production studio working with artists to generate new art works and produce films. We are a dedicated team of art and technology specialists working from Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia. Deeply rooted in collaboration, our passion is providing artists with the tools to experiment and develop innovative artworks that push the boundaries of conventional forms. Our skillset is broad, giving us the creative freedom to realise a wide variety of projects, including physical and digital art productions. Through our intimate conversations with leading artists, curators and museum directors, we produce films exploring how current events influence our perception of the arts.

We are currently hiring a social media assistant to help bring Shifting Vision’s work to the widest possible audience, as we embark on exciting new projects and collaborations in 2023.

About the role:

• Working with graphic designer and PR team to re-brand and coordinate all socials for the company 
• Regular posting across Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter
• Social media scheduling
• Regular meetings with the Shifting Vision team
• Working closely with our Graphic Designer on brand voice and visuals
• Posting collaboratively with galleries, artist studios, and independent art professionals
• Increasing following and engagement across all socials esp. Instagram 

About you:

• Social media management experience
• Experience of creating and publishing content across different platforms
• Understanding of analytics
• An active interest in contemporary art
• A self-starter who is happy to work independently and keep the socials running effectively.

To apply:

To apply for this role please send an email to [email protected] with your CV and a short cover letter detailing why you would like to join the team.

Shifting Vision

Our Marketing team is growing!!

Now that we have become a PE backed business, we’re growing our Marketing team to evolve the way we interact with our customers and grow our brand reputation.

One area that we are excited to recruit for, is a brand new Social Media Marketing Manager.

As our Social Media Marketing Manager you’ll own the development and execution of the Social Media strategy for the Highborne Group and its major customer-facing brands, including City Plumbing and The Bathroom Showroom.

Excited for this opportunity? Read on to find out more about our new Social Media Manager

The Role:

As a fast paced Private Equity backed business we have big plans for 2023. We’re growing our Marketing team to evolve the way we interact and engage with our customers.

(Highbourne Group includes brands such as City Plumbing, Direct Heating Spares, Energy Efficiency, National Shower Spares, Plumbnation, Plumbworld, The Bathroom Showroom, and The Underfloor Heating Store).

With social media at the heart of the Group’s PR strategy, this role will oversee social media activity across the Group’s main brands, working closely with external agencies and internal teams to deliver measurable, integrated campaigns and incorporating influencer marketing to engage our customers.

This means as our Social Media Marketing Manager, you’ll own the development and execution of the Social Media strategy for the Highbourne Group and its major customer-facing brands, including City Plumbing and The Bathroom Showroom.

Areas of focus include:

• Working closely with the wider Marketing team and the business to define key opportunities and the most effective mediums to deliver impactful and aligned campaigns to our customers and relevant stakeholders.
• Driving cost-effective and impactful B2B, trade, and consumer campaigns through social media.
• Increase sales through our digital and branch routes to market through the development of compelling social media content. Managing external agencies and working closely with the internal digital teams to bring the social media strategy to life through compelling, creative, and engaging content that delivers results.
• Understand our various routes to market and establish meaningful and effective social media strategies that are fit for purpose for our different business types.
• Work closely with the Internal Communications team to align calendared activities and communication style.
• Ensure key messaging and activities are managed in a way that provides the correct level of understanding and impact for internal teams and external stakeholders/customers.

This Marketing opportunity offers the opportunity to work on a hybrid basis. Therefore, you should be within commutable distance of our offices in Crick, Northamptonshire.

As a Marketing team we all meet in the office at least twice a week.

You:

You’ll live and breathe our customer-first ethos, with a creative and proactive approach. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Marketing team and you’ll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Required skills and competencies:

• Experience working agency or client side managing social media for a large organization.
• Knowledge of defining and tracking social media campaigns.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence those around you.
• A growth mindset, able to challenge ideas to drive through solutions.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Comms Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Executive, Marketing Manager, Paid Media, Social Marketing Manager, Social Media Executive, Social Media Manager.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career!

We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Savings on driving lessons, phone bills, gym memberships as well as further benefits
• Life assurance
• Bonus
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, let’s be there for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• Striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. #BelongWithUs

City Plumbing

Job Title: Senior Brand Manager

Salary: Up to £50,000

Location: Midlands (Hybrid)

Lavandi Talent are currently working with a forward thinking, award winning Beauty and Personal Care company who are looking for a fantastic Brand Manager to join their growing team! The right candidate must be passionate about the Beauty industry with proven marketing experience.

The Role:

• Drive and manage strategic multi-channel brand development.
• Work with the wider marketing teams and cross functionally to ensure full integration across all platforms and channels
• With two direct reports, this role will manage and oversee a marketing specialist and a junior brand manager.
• Working closely with Head of Marketing and collaborating with other senior members of the team.
• Responsible for developing & managing the PR and Influencer strategy
• Dynamic, flexible, and be eager to be part of building beauty brands
• Tracking performance and reporting back

Ideal Candidate:

• Experienced in managing a dynamic team
• Beauty / FMCG / Food experience
• An established Brand or Marketing manager with at least 6 years’ experience
• Experience in developing and managing new brand and product launches
• Strong creative campaign and project management skills

If you are looking for a new challenge, hit the apply button!

Contact Details:

Lavandi Talent –

. 0161 399 1200 – [email protected]

*We advertise all our roles on our LinkedIn business page so if you would like to hear of similar opportunities, search ‘Lavandi Talent’ on LinkedIn and follow our page! *

Unfortunately, due to the anticipated high numbers of applications we will not be able to respond to every applicant. If you have not received feedback within 14 days, your application may have been unsuccessful.

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Lavandi Talent

Our client is a Creative Communications agency working with some of the world’s biggest brands

They develop campaigns that are at the cutting edge of culture. Clients range across Sports, Music, Fashion & Lifestyle. The agency is looking for an exceptional Community Manager to join the growing team.

You will be passionate and enthusiastic, with an appetite to sink your teeth into a role where you can flex your creative and strategic muscles. You’ll be part of a community manager duo and will have a real opportunity to collaborate and shape the outputs of the day-to-day account. You’ll know TikTok to Discord!

The Role

The eyes and ears of the community, you’ll be the human lens across the brands. You’ll be on hand to ensure they deliver community driven content calendars and remain proactive and responsive across channels. You’ll work with the social content creator and strategist and proactively look for ways to take things further. You will have a proven track record as a community/ social media manager and love getting under the skin of a brand.

• Overall social media community management monitoring of social pages including stakeholder escalation.
• Ideation and development of the social media calendar with support from the social content creator and in-house studio and project manager.
• Collaborate on influencer content ideas.
• Connect with global in-house support for translations etc.
• Live on the ground coverage and publishing with support from the social content creator.
• Support the strategist with weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting.

Skills

• Channel moderation, escalation, and engagement.
• Content calendar development
• Pro-active/ reactive content ideas
• Good social copywriter for both paid and organic
• Understanding of social platforms such as YouTube, Discord, TikTok, Twitter, BeReal, Instagram, Twitch
• Comfortable working across live events
• Have best in class platform knowledge
• Passionate about communities and storytelling
• Compile design briefs and briefings
• Creative thinker
• Understanding of basic social metrics and reporting
• Comfortable being client facing with support from wider accounts team

Christopher Keats Media Limited

TIMCO

Title: Trade Product Category Manager

Reporting to: Purchasing Director

Department: Procurement

Location: Wardle, Cheshire – with Hybrid working opportunity available

Hours: 08.30-17.00 Monday to Friday

Salary: TBC

Job Description: Responsible for influencing and maximizing the performance of existing product categories.

Aim of Position: Liaising with heads of relevant departments to ensure cohesion across the business, driving growth and development in both product and knowledge within the TIMCO teams and our valuable customer base.

Range of Responsibilities:

•      Research and development within the category to increase range and sales.

·       To liaise with key stakeholders regarding product development (including product management team, QC/compliance team, marketing, supply chain)

•      To create, monitor, and implement brand development annual business plan in line with agreed strategy.

•      To provide support to the external and internal sales teams with product training and contact with customer base for range improvements and considerations for range additions.

•      Market analytics (competition, white space, channel management, target markets, etc.)

•      Sign off for NPD and product updates for external sales team.

•      To ensure all category products have the necessary supporting documentation (audits, QC, testing, technical data sheets, certification etc.)

•      To action tasks in accordance with the companies Sustainability and Ethical Sourcing policies.

Skills Required:

·       Previous knowledge of managing products within the trade hardware category

·       Previous experience of selling to builder’s merchant sector.

·       Candidates should be process driven, organised and efficient.

·       Great attention to detail with strong analytical skills.

·       Excellent level of communication skills (both verbal and written)

·       Good IT skills – Proficient with MS Office suite including high competency in excel.

·       Ability to work as a team and assist colleagues when required.

·       National and International Travel will be a part of this role.

Benefits:

Competitive Salary plus company pension

Category Bonus scheme

Progression Opportunities.

Applications should be made to [email protected] by Monday 3 April 2023

TIMCO