Junior Copywriter

**About Matalan**:
From humble beginnings to disruptive innovations in the retail industry, find out about how Matalan is ever-evolving here.

We know as a team, we are stronger together - we champion equality for all and make lasting connections that go beyond work. We thrive off our inclusive culture, encouraging our colleagues to bring their true selves to work and contributing to collective creativity, open-mindedness and growth.

**About You**:

- Any creative copywriting experience within an agency or in-house environment would be beneficial
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- The ability to write in different styles and to other people’s direction
- The organisational ability to manage multiple projects, often to tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- An basic understanding of digital marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO)
- Excellent writing and sub-editing skills & ideally be educated to Degree level
- With a keen interest in the retail sector, you will ideally have some editorial/copy experience of fashion, lifestyle and beauty writing, preferably within an online retail environment

**Benefits**:
In addition to competitive salaries, we also offer the below core benefits:

- 20% staff discount, which increases with length of service
- Thrive Recognition Scheme
- Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust
- Life Assurance
- Retail Rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers
- Pension Scheme
- Access to a wide range of career development

**About the Role**:
You will work closely with the wider marketing team to ensure daily and weekly deadlines are met in order to maintain department efficiency and support internal teams.

Key Responsibilities
- Write, sub edit and proof read copy for a variety of different communication channels in line with briefs
- Contribute to the research, planning and concept creation for creative briefs
- Support the ecommerce, social and SEO teams when needed.