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Hush is a fast-growing fashion and lifestyle brand, founded 18 years ago by Mandy Watkins and now established as one of the UK’s leading online fashion retailers. We employ around 150 staff in our head office and across 30 John Lewis concessions, creating and selling a beautiful range of women’s clothing and accessories that are characterised by an elegant simplicity and laidback sense of style. Despite the challenges to the retail industry over the past 2 years, hush has continued grow – but our company culture still reflects our entrepreneurial roots and relaxed aesthetic – we love hard-working and talented people with a can-do attitude and a passion for what they do.

The Role:

We are looking for a dynamic, creative and passionate Senior PR and Influencer Executive to join our Brand Marketing team at an exciting time for hush. Working alongside the Senior Brand, Social and PR Manager and our external agency, you will play a pivotal role in delivering our ambitious press and influencer marketing strategy, creating unforgettable PR campaigns and moments that generate buzz, awareness and love for the brand.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the development and execution of the PR and Influencer strategy and activations.
• Manage influencer campaigns to drive coverage and buzz. Be proactive in identifying new talent that align with hush’s brand and work with other teams to create campaigns that are 360
• Manage and grow hush’s brand ambassador programme to increase advocacy and awareness
• Design and execute a calendar of engaging influencer and press events and creative mailers to ensure cut-through
• Day-to-day management of our PR agency, working together to achieve KPIs and wider marketing objectives
• Work with our PR agency to secure press features, ensuring hush is positioned correctly in the right titles
• Proactively create engaging PR opportunities to pitch to media
• Daily management of the hush press office, responding promptly to enquiries and sample requests
• Draft, edit and issue high quality, compelling written materials including press releases, interview briefing documents and quotes from hush spokespeople
• Sample management
• Work with the Senior PR Manager to execute our media partnership strategy
• Arrange product orders for VIP, stylist and journalist gifting and call ins
• Track press and influencer coverage, maintain our PR dashboard and report results to the wider team
• Monitoring PR budgets
• Be a constant champion for PR across the business

The Person:

• 4 years+ PR experience within the fashion industry, including working with influencers and tastemakers
• Great influencer and press contacts within the women’s fashion industry
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• The ability to build strong relationships
• A great multi-tasker who is used to working in a fast-paced environment
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Proactive with a can-do attitude
• Agency management would be advantageous

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications are encouraged from individuals regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships

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Senior Event Producer

Based in London

£55k + benefits

The Agency

BeFound have partnered with an impressive, independent brand activation / events agency. They have offices globally and they are looking to expand their team with a Senior Producer to be based in the London office.

Working across leading luxury brands across creative, design, brand strategy and production. Luxury brand portfolio expands across Fashion, Beauty, Drinks, Luxury brands.

Its young team of experts styles an array of different sized events, from intimate brand breakfasts to global brand launches, pop up stores and high-end press trips and applies the same attention-to-detail to every project.

In order to transform a space, the team works closely with the client to fully immerse themselves in the brand’s identity and adapts the style and creative to deliver a truly bespoke experience every time.

Its growing portfolio of trusted suppliers and brand partnerships means it is able to push the boundaries and come up with new and innovative ideas, to allow brands to raise awareness and stand out.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Reporting into senior management
• Developing and executing the creative vision for projects. this will include multiple projects at the same time.
• Produce creative pitches and proposals, source venues, manage critical paths and timelines, negotiate with suppliers, develop and manage budgets, create schedules and event books for each client/project
• Supplier management will include reviewing and signing off technical/production drawings, quotes, negotiating and day to day communication
• Regular meetings with the stakeholders and design team to establish project status, budget updates, keeping the client informed and supporting the wider team as needed
• Day to day client management, including troubleshooting and managing any issues with the wider team regarding project details
• Managing assistants per project, as needed
• Creating client documents for sign off including status reports, production books and schedules
• Managing the financial aspects of a project from pitch through to reconciliation stage, including ensuring invoices for vendors and clients are shared in a timley manner with the necessary parties. ensuring all project costs are accurately recorded, accounted for and company margins are met for each event.
• Working onsite at events for setup, live events and derig, as the point of contact for the vendors and client. this may include travel to other countries.

Person

• Interest and knowledge in the luxury sector
• Extensive experience in creative production for events and vendor management
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent multitasking and time management skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Personable and professional
• Efficient, solutions driven and intuitive
• Enthusiastic and positive
• Presentable
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in event production, in the luxury sector

Sound like you? Apply today!

BeFound

About Us

WeAre8 is a social media platform on a mission to save the planet.

WeAre8 unites creators, the community, its citizens and brands to positively change the world.

Built on the belief that social media should serve you, value your time and empower you to make an impact every day, we have developed a platform that brings people together and includes a video advertising solution for brands that is transparent, efficient, effective and sustainable.

The WeAre8 platform enables brands to connect with people in an environment built with love and free from hate. Every time a brand advertises on our platform, we donate money to saving our planet and pay people for their time, who can then “pay it forward” to other areas of social impact such as disadvantage, equality, health and education.

WeAre8 is a certified B Corp committed to transforming the $450B global digital advertising ecosystem to deliver social impact on the world and being a force for good.

Our Values

Inclusive – We are for everyone. We don’t care about the colour of your skin, who you kiss or how many followers you have, we value you for being you.

Magical – We make the impossible possible. Together we have the power to change the world in just 8 minutes a day. Now that is magical!

Elevated – We want people to feel elevated and valued when they use our technology and inspire them to use their collective voice to imbue positive change. We elevate and celebrate brands who are using their ad dollars as a force for good.

Trusted – Transparency and trust are at the core of everything we do. Our technology enables brands and people to unite in a way that people feel valued, respected and rewarded every day.

We are scaling quickly and looking for an experienced video professional who is a creative problem solver with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a passion for purpose driven projects. A team player who has fantastic leadership and management skills and can take ownership of their work and others from concept to completion

Requirements:

• Able to edit to a highly creative and technical standard to create engaging video assets using Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• Interpret briefs creatively and respond proactively to feedback.
• Export, conform and adapt files to various delivery specifications.
• Experience editing and conforming for broadcast (TVC, DOOH).
• Extremely organised mind with strong project management and research skills.
• Strong knowledge of social media formats and best practice.
• Good at ideation – coming up with brilliant ideas and concepts and seeing them through to completion
• Mix audio, apply basic colour correction, liaise with outside contractors and comply with industry standards and best practises when needed.
• Able to create titles and motion graphics in After Effects.
• Ability to film confidently on shoots as a crew lead in studio and on location

Your Experience:

• At least 8 years of experience producing digital videos
• Prior experience managing every aspect of video production from start to finish, under tight deadlines.
• A good understanding and interest in WeAre8’s mission brand ethos
• Experience using multiple camera setups, including in studio and on location filming
• A professional-level understanding of the Adobe Creative Suite, with a high level of expertise in Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a flexible, proactive and highly organized approach
• Management skills – be a mentor to more junior members of the team
• Be involved in creative ideation, concept development and working with key stakeholders
• Able to deal with changing deadlines and priorities
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills.

WeAre8

About Celestial

In the fast-evolving global market for drone shows, Celestial has rapidly established itself as one of the World’s leading drone art companies. 

Utilising our fleet of 1500 drones, we deliver spectacular shows for high profile clients across the globe. Previous clients have included Amazon Prime Video, Coventry City of Culture, Greenpeace, Amnesty international, Adelaide Fringe Festival, City of Melbourne, Eden project, Puma. For more information see celestial.show.

About the role

Celestial has ambitious growth targets in the UK and USA in 2023 and is looking for an experienced B2B Global Marketing Manager to drive our marketing activity.  

The primary goals of the role are:

1. to increase the number of high-quality inbound leads received per month

2. ensure value for money on external spend.  

Reporting to the Head of Sales in the UK and working closely with the CEO to the Celestial President in the USA, the Global Marketing Manager will manage the annual marketing budget allocating resources across in-house activities, ad spend, agency spend.

Taking a Global approach across all areas of the business, the roles responsibilities include but are not exclusive to the following.

Website and SEO

Review of Celestial’s current website and SEO performance using Google Analytics and other tools. Presenting data to the Senior Management Teams with recommendations to improve organic search visibility and introducing strategies that yield improved results.

Management of Marketing Budget, KPI’s (Pay Per Click (PPC) )

Oversight of Celestial’s marketing budgets, setting KPI’s and measuring outcomes to increase results in all marketing activity. Overview of the monthly PPC spend. Recommendations for improving ROI on PPC spend.

Global Events

Identify and attend worldwide trade and Exbo events to increase Celestial’s global presence and connections.

Global Strategy

Working with the Senior Management Team to create and deliver a consistent and far reaching strategy for growth.

Brand Ambassador

Safeguard the Celestial brand and train staff in the appropriate use of its guidelines across various company marketing material and templates.

LinkedIn

Management of the company’s presence and engagement on LinkedIn. Drive LinkedIn activity and broaden the professional contact base. Implement new strategies for improved engagement via the sales navigator.

Social media management

Manage all social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok) by planning and scheduling of social media content and posts. Increase the company network, engagement, and influence across theses channels.

Brand Strategy Ambassador

Help to focus the Celestial brand and train staff in the safeguarding of its guidelines, instructing the appropriate use across various company marketing material and templates.

Mailing Lists

Quarterly mailouts and growth of company mailing list.

PR

Management of external PR agencies, engaged on a job-by-job basis.

Company Communications

Taking ownership of company communications and creating a global strategy.

Recruitment

Identifying the spaces Celestial will get the most effective engagement and reach for new company positions and reporting on the most effective results of engagement across these identified portals. Identify marketing assistant roles to assist you in with delivery of marketing tasks.

About you

The successful candidate will be able to evidence a minimum 5 year’s experience at Marketing Manager level.

You will be equally comfortable taking a hands-on approach delivering activity in house or managing external suppliers where required.

Celestial is a fast paced start up business undergoing a period of rapid growth. The role requires a result focused and self-motivated individual.

This is a multi-functioning role that requires the skills of an advanced Digital Marketer but who also has the creative outlook and skillset to protect and develop a strong brand.

The Details

Location: Based at Celestial HQ in Frome, Somerset.

Working Hours: Full time, Mon-Fri (37.5 hours/week)

Holiday: 25 days + bank holidays

Salary: £48k+

Start date: As soon as is possible.

If you are interested in applying, please send your cover letter and CV evidencing why you are a good fit for this role to [email protected]. Please title your email Global Marketing Manager.

Closing date for applications 13th January 2023. Interviews in mid-late January 2023.

Celestial

We are excited to be working with a highly successful creative communications and branding agency who are looking for an outgoing and highly dedicated Creative Director.

The agency is a small, fun and highly ambitious agency with global clients and are looking for a smart, upbeat creative, with proven all-round creative experience. This leadership role will not only work directly with clients, but also have responsibility for the company’s overall creative strategy. You will lead the creative team, work alongside management on company creative strategy and also be hands on with clients, both existing and prospective.

Responsibilities

• Drive creative excellence
• Oversea Creative Strategy
• Work closely with wider agency on creative output
• Lead and mentor the creative team
• Support New Business Team on pitches and presentations
• Oversee recruitment for the team, including freelancers
• Develop and maintain Client relationships
• Use commerciality in all decisions

Experience

• Proven senior creative level experience in an agency environment
• An all-rounder who has experience in brand building and developing comms campaign concepts
• Corporate client experience is preferred (b2b)
• High level of campaign experience
• Team Management experience

Profile

• A smart and charismatic creative leader
• Hard working and enthusiastic
• A conceptual and strategic thinker
• Highly motivated and a self-starter
• Ability to gain respect from team and clients

The company works on a hybrid model, ideally 3 days in the office in central London. There is also flexi-time and a range of excellent benefits including private healthcare.

£80-90K

Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd

Proposed interview dates: first stage interviews w/c 16th January

Formative Content is a digital corporate content agency, working with some of the world’s leading B2B and corporate brands.

Our team blends together experienced business journalists and editors, a top notch visual creative team, data and strategy alongside our incredible Social & Insights team to give what we believe is a market-beating offer to clients. The company was set up by our CEO and founder who, having worked in numerous global broadcasters, had a simple vision. To bring the best of a busy newsroom to the world of corporate content. We call it brand journalism.

Role overview:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Social and Insights Manager to join as Deputy Head of our Social and Insights team.

The Social & Insights Manager is a senior position within the Social & Insights team. They will be experienced in both social strategy and execution, as well as using insights and analytics to make informed recommendations to the client. They will also be comfortable with all aspects of social execution, including copywriting, paid campaigns and social scheduling.

They will have 5-8 years’ experience in a social media role and experience managing, mentoring and training others within a team. They will also work closely with the Head of Social & Insights to help shape the social media services that the agency offers.

This role will require client facing skills, including creating and presenting social strategies, recommendation and reports and being a voice of expertise on all things social media.

As deputy team leader, the Social & Insights Manager will be required to line manage members of the team and join Senior Management meetings when required.

Responsibilities will include:

• Take a leading role across the agency in social strategy and analytics, from contributing to proposals and joining client calls to running internal training sessions
• Manage a portfolio of accounts, running the day-to-day delivery of social media content including scheduling, copywriting and paid campaigns.
• Take a lead on analysing, interpreting and presenting results of paid campaigns in line with client KPIs and objectives. Offer insights and proactive suggestions when required.
• Line management of S&I team members
• Build and manage paid social media and Google Ads campaigns using advanced targeting and optimisation.
• Maintain a commercial mindset across all projects, liaising with client services on time available and time spent, and offering solutions to keep projects on time and on budget.
• Drive standards and quality in all content creation, but especially within the Social and Insights team.
• Keep up to date with new social media developments in the industry, contributing to and driving internal discussions around social media trends and innovations.
• Help shape our social proposition to aid our commercial efforts
• Understand when to escalate issues and when to use initiative to offer solutions.
• Help implement, review and reinforce internal processes to ensure consistent, efficient and high-quality content creation.
• Establish and manage client relationships where appropriate, working closely with client services to ensure consistency of messaging and service.

Core Competencies:

• Advanced understanding of social media strategy and content marketing principles
• Advanced level of understanding around creating and optimising paid social campaigns.
• Advanced working knowledge of best practices across the major social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
• Ability to understand both social media and website analytics and to draw insights from the data.
• Familiarity with social listening tools
• Proficient in the fundamentals of SEO
• Superb attention to detail
• Ability to contribute proactive suggestions to clients that demonstrate an understanding of strategic goals and objectives
• Excellent copywriting, proofreading and sub-editing skills, evidencing a clear understanding of social media writing styles and tone of voice
• Demonstrable passion for social media community engagement
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, directly managing client expectations and personal workload
• A confident communicator both internally and with clients
• Ability to adjust priorities and team workloads according to client demands
• Confident using Google suite tools including Google Sheets, Slides, and Docs.

What we offer:

We are now operating a hybrid working model, which is predominantly remote working, with the option to come into our Beaconsfield office. We’re therefore happy for our new team member to be located anywhere within the UK, on the understanding that there will be times that visits to the office will be required – perhaps once or twice a month.

We believe that working at Formative Content is more than just a job. We work hard to build and maintain a fun, close-knit, high-performing and engaging culture. Every team member has an Individual Learning & Development plan which serves as a roadmap for their development activities throughout the year. Due to our growth story, we have the unique ability to offer opportunities and a career trajectory that few agencies can match. At the end of the day, we want our team members to not only love their work but the company as well. If this sounds like the right fit for you, we look forward to hearing from you.

In return for your talent, we will provide one of the best working environments you’ve experienced. This will include mindful leadership, support through flexible working, ongoing personal development and an unwavering commitment to enable you to thrive in your role. On top of this we offer:

• Profit-sharing scheme
• 25 days paid holiday
• An additional day off for your birthday each year
• Private health insurance with BUPA
• Two weeks of dedicated development time per year (paid)
• Individual Learning & Development plan tailored to each individual
• We are an employee-owned company
• Life Insurance
• Pension scheme
• Employee Special Interest Groups (Green Team, DEI Working Group, Vertical Specialist)
• Support for new parents and those returning to work
• A fun and dynamic hybrid work environment, with regular team and company wide social events
• At Formative, we believe strongly in the value of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you require any reasonable adjustment in our process please don’t hesitate to advise. We encourage and support equal employment opportunities for all applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status or sexual orientation. Employment decisions are evaluated on the basis of an individual’s skills, knowledge, abilities, job performance, and other qualifications.

At Formative, we believe strongly in the value of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you require any reasonable adjustment in our process please don’t hesitate to advise. We encourage and support equal employment opportunities for all applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status or sexual orientation. Employment decisions are evaluated on the basis of an individual’s skills, knowledge, abilities, job performance, and other qualifications.

Recruitment Agencies please note: we do not use external third parties to assist in our recruitment process. We would appreciate absolutely no unsolicited phone or e-mail outreach at this time.

Formative Content

We are on the hunt for a socially savvy content creator who’s passionate about making TikTok videos either for themselves or for brands (or both). You will be responsible for developing social media channels of a major retail client, to grow brand awareness, engagement, popularity and (ultimately) conversions.

Day-to-Day:

• Creation and development of a social media strategy (working closely with the Head of Digital for support)
• Creation of various content types for multiple channels (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc.) – both self-creation
• Idea generation for content types, themes and channels
• Community management across multiple channels
• Reporting on performance of multiple channels
• Creation and management of influencer lists
• Management of influencer relations

So if you’re a savvy social operator with your finger on the pulse of all the latest digital/social trends I’d love to hear from you.

Prospect Resourcing

Social Media Manager, £30000-£41000, Birmingham, Permanent

About the company:

A leading Birmingham-based agency is on the lookout for a Social Media Manager to join their fabulous consumer team. This agency has won countless awards and their workplace culture really is second-to-none. Whilst they’re dedicated to delivering industry-leading work across the board, they’re also committed to promoting work life balance for their employees, with plenty of socials, flexible hybrid working and many other benefits.

Description:

In your role as Social Media Manager, you’ll be the day-to-day lead on a number of exciting B2C accounts. You’ll need to be confident building strong and trusting relationships with clients and delivering results which not only meet but exceed their expectations!

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Driving idea generation for social campaigns and overseeing them from start to finish, liaising with internal teams throughout
• Meeting with clients regularly to develop social strategies, present work and report back on campaign results
• Supporting on the development of proposals and pitches
• Using your expertise to provide mentorship to more junior members of the team
• Keeping up to date any new social media trends and updates

Experience & Skills:

In order to be considered for this Social Media Manager position, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate:

• At least 3 years’ experience in social media
• A proven track-record of successful social campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and other channels
• Excellent communication and client management skills
• A highly strategic and creative mindset
• Exceptional attention to detail
• A genuine passionate for all things social media

Remuneration:

This agency is offering a competitive salary of up to £41k (depending on experience) for this Social Media Manager position. They also have:

• Flexi-working hours and location
• Tailored internal and external training programmes
• Excellent progression opportunities
• Enhanced pension
• Numerous wellbeing benefits and social activities

This role is easily commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Leamington Spa, Redditch, Wolverhampton and across the West Midlands.

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