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PR, Social and Influencer Executive

Better Placed are delighted to be partnering with a large scale entertainment business in their search for a PR, Social and Influencer executive to work across their portfolio of brands.

They are looking for an innovative and dynamic individual to join their North West based team. This role will report directly to the Head of PR and Content and will support in the management of all aspects of PR, with a solid grounding in social channels, with a focus on TikTok and influencer marketing

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join a truly dynamic team in the next stage of their journey in entertainment, music and the arts.

The role

• Manage on and offline PR campaigns with new and existing press relations
• Create press releases / communications and manage media relations
• Copywriting and proofreading for external comms (email, web, social, PR etc)
• Identify, create and manage influencer campaigns that feed into the overall business social media strategy
• Keep on top of new social media developments, trends and platforms – Identifying social media influencers, YouTubers and TikTokers, for potential collaborations.
• Liaise with the wider marketing team to ensure all campaigns are fully integrated
• Devise and create TikTok content plans
• Report on successes across PR, social and content.

The person

• Previous experience in PR/Social/Content roles
• A love for all things entertainment – music, arts, events etc
• A self-learner who loves to bring new ideas to the table and keeps up to date with industry trends
• A creative mind who thrives working with designers, photographers and videographers
• Able to multi-task – this will be a fast-paced role!
• A keen eye for detail who enjoys writing copy across multiple platforms
• A real interest in being part of and building online communities

For more information on the role, team and client please apply immediately.

Better Placed Ltd

About Hyve

We believe that when people come together, powerful things happen. Hyve Group plc connects global industry communities through unmissable events, online networking platforms, and hyper-productive meeting programmes.

Our decades of experience put us at the heart of industries, and we are committed to using our influence to shape innovation and drive progress across our customer communities.

Our market-leading portfolio of global brands includes Shoptalk, Spring Fair, Africa Oil Week, Bett, Mining Indaba, and Retail Meetup.

#LifeAtHyve

At Hyve, we are driven by our values: brilliant work, fresh thinking, rich connections, and collective buzz. In practice, this means we value quality, work with passion, celebrate uniqueness, and are our best when we work together.

We value a diverse team and are committed to employing individuals from all backgrounds and creating a culture based around belonging.

Our hybrid working model ensures we respect our peoples’ work/life balance.

Human connections are our specialty, and we offer a jam-packed calendar of social events, inclusion workshops, and professional development opportunities to make sure #LifeAtHyve is always fulfilling and exciting.

About Bett

Bett is a dynamic and engaged online and live community that learns, trades and networks all year round. It is the world’s largest education technology event series and is the global meeting place for the education technology industry. With over 35 years of heritage, Bett provides a platform for innovation, dialogue, networking and global trade – bringing together exhibitors and visitors from around the world, physically and online, to buy, sell and make connections. The Bett global series is comprised of four physical events, in four continents, and an extensive suite of online activities that span the year and the globe. Globally, we welcome over 60,000 educators to our events and over 1200 technology providers.

Ahead is a new event for higher education leaders accelerating disruption. Co-located with Bett – the global community for education technology, Ahead offers the higher education

About you

As a Content Producer for the EdTech portfolio, you will be joining a Content team of four and will be responsible for the programming and onsite delivery of up to three content features for our flagship show Bett UK.

This will include programming across one of our most recent and most exciting launch features: Esports @ Bett. You will also support on the portfolio’s 365 content-marketing campaign and pre-show speaker logistics.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the day-to-day management of content across your allocated features.
• Content generation: responsible for conducting a research campaign and analysis of key subject areas and trends.
• Accountable for editorial speaker recruitment across allocated features. Bett is committed to producing an inclusive and representative content agenda for our visitors, and your programmes and speaker recruitment should support and reflect this.
• Content development: evolution of themes, topics and formats designed to deliver new audience segments to Bett.
• Collaboration with the Sales team to maximize revenue from each content feature whilst ensuring that the quality of the content is delivered to the highest standard.
• Collaboration with the Marketing team to deliver buyer side visitors by leveraging strong speaker line ups with associated content marketing which may include video, written and social media-based campaigns.
• Supporting Bett’s 365 Digital Content Campaign: Working with other content team members to commission new pieces of editorial content for newsletters, Bett’s community hub, and social media.
• Project management: working with the show project teams including marketing, sales and operations to deliver to deadline and within budget
• Onsite delivery: managing onsite execution of content features to exceptional standards of customer service.
• Speaker logistics support: Including, but not limited to, sending out speaker instructions, collecting speaker assets, updating speaker profiles and agendas on the Bett website.
• ESG Initiatives: Supporting the team with the generation and development of new ESG content initiatives to ensure Bett is driving awareness into sustainability.

Skills Required

• Established experience of conference production.
• Experience within the technology or education sectors beneficial, but not required
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – able to clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• A high level of commercial awareness and be target and deadline driven.
• Strongly results-focused, able to clearly demonstrate success via proven metrics.
• Customer-oriented, taking pride in exceeding customer expectations.
• Proven relationship skills – able to build and develop good working relationships across the business to facilitate the accomplishment of goals, leverage learning and share best practice.

Hyve Group plc

Our client is a full-service agency specialising in the entertainment /music industries. They work with with a wide range of clients from music labels, artists, to promoters. They have an exciting opportunity for a social content producer to join the team.

The role

We’re looking for a creative and social media savvy digital content producer, to help us produce our agency’s social and wider creative content output, which includes (but is not limited to) TikTok content, performance videos, lyric videos, photo shoots, music videos, music packshots, social-driven branding projects and bite-sized multimedia social content.

We’re looking for someone with 3+ years of relevant experience as a producer in social & entertainment. You will have a brilliant creative eye, are experienced at project managing a range of creative projects inside social and/or digital content, and understand the intricacies of the music industry & social media.

You’ll be responsible for coordinating the logistics of every aspect of our content ‘shoots’ and other multidisciplinary content. Including aiding the creation of treatments, budget, timeline, insurance, health & safety, freelancers and call sheets. You’ll need to be really comfortable managing lots of different contributors, whether that’s the artists themselves and their management team, brand representatives, or freelancers assisting with things like photography, videography, hair, make-up… the list goes on.

We would love you to come armed with your own little black book of industry contacts and freelancers too!

The role provides a huge opportunity to help build & shape the future of our agency and how we service our clients. We’re at a stage in our growth where we’re winning new business all the time so we need talented people to help us execute and impress our clients.

Your responsibilities:

• Project management & production of the agency’s content output (this includes weekly and ad-hoc social content, as well as larger creative studio jobs).
• Organising job logistics from pre-production to post-production (this includes being on-site for shoots).
• Managing project budgets, keeping jobs on track financially & working with our finance team to keep track of invoicing.
• Sourcing of freelancers for specific jobs & building your own freelance network in various creative disciplines.
• Working with the leadership team including our Co-Founders & Creative Director to build the agency’s studio product from the ground up.
• Work with our Co-Founders to bring in new studio projects & help scale the revenue of this side of the business.

Who are you?

To really flourish in this role, we would expect you to:

• Be passionate about music, ideally having worked in the music industry, with experience producing creative and digital content for social.
• Love working with talented creatives to make content that looks great, and that audiences really connect with.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of platforms, formats, deliverables and how these impact time-frames & budgets.
• Be a native user of Instagram & TikTok, with an interest in keeping up to date with a fast moving social media landscape.
• Be meticulously organised and process driven, thriving in a fast paced work environment and able to multitask across a variety of projects (whilst staying cool under pressure too of course!).
• Have a great creative eye, with the ability to think critically about creative executions and suggest best practice approaches.
• Experienced working as a creative, or closely with, so that you understand creative processes and are able to assess workload, estimate timings and manage resources accordingly.
• Have excellent project management skills.
• First-class written & verbal communication skills.
• Be well connected with a range of go-to creatives and freelancers you already work with to deliver content
• Be happy working as part of a small but growing team.
• Feel motivated to help drive the success and growth of the company by asserting your ideas both creatively & operationally.

So, what’s in it for you?

We nurture every single one of our employees, meaning this is a place for you to learn, develop and really mould your career within the music industry. You’ll be part of a driven and creative team and, because we’re currently going through a really exciting period of growth, you’ll be given the opportunity to help us define the company as we get bigger and better.

Please send your CV stating your salary expectations.

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