Staff Writer
7 days ago
Job Introduction
*** At Saga we’re radically flexible which means our colleagues have total autonomy over where they work - home, hybrid or hub. This role is remote-friendly**
**Are you an aspiring writer?**
If you are driven to deliver high quality, engaging content with a passion for Homes - think interior design, home maintenance, appliances, gardening, or smart home devices - we want to hear from you
We currently have two rare opportunities at Saga to be a part of building our newest business - Saga Media. As a Staff Writer, you’ll join us as we build our new website from the ground up, bringing exciting and relevant content to our readers. This is the perfect time to join if you like getting stuck in and being creative whilst building your career and helping us shape the future of our media business.
You’ll be tasked with writing engaging, entertaining, and informative content to help the Saga audience with ideas, inspiration and buying decisions for inside and outside the home, including interior design, home improvements, appliances, gardening and more.
You’ll also be a strong communicator with a genuine interest in the wider industry to develop and maintain industry and PR contacts, and attend events, launches, meetings, briefings, and trade shows both nationally and internationally.
In return you’ll join a supportive environment keen to see you develop, take on challenging new experiences and play a key role in building a leading site in its market for the over 50s.
Main Responsibilities
- Writing and updating news, features, buying guides and reviews.
- Uploading and publishing content on the CMS
- Understanding the home topics the Saga audience are most engaged with, and proactively pitch content ideas to your line manager.
- Developing a firm understanding of SEO and eCommerce, optimizing all articles, and ensuring they cover expertise, authority, and trust guidelines.
- Sharing articles on various Saga social channels.
- Experience writing high quality, engaging online content, preferably within the home sector - or a journalism qualification.
- Genuine interest in, and knowledge of, the fitness or home market with a passion to become an expert in the topic area.
- An understanding of eCommerce content and SEO principles, with a desire to develop knowledge further.
**Our Saga Values**:
- Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen.
- Empathy - Always aware of others.
- Curiosity - Always asking why.
- Collaboration - Always one team, the Saga team
About The Company
Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation. The strength of the Saga brand provides the Group with the ability to develop in-house or partner with suppliers to offer our customers and members highly differentiated, competitively priced products which meet their evolving needs.
Saga exists to help our customers and members lead the life they want to lead. To succeed in this, we know that the most important thing to do is to listen to our customers and members. At the heart of our business model is our drive to know more about our customers’ wants and needs so we are best placed to serve them.
When you join Saga you will see that we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement.
We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.
We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Women Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.
We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme.
**_To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged _**_on_**_ the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Any engagement with employees or provision of CVs to employees within Saga where you have not engaged with the Talent Acquisition Team will be considered speculative and Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner._**
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