Digital Content Creator

3 months ago


Willenhall, United Kingdom AF Blakemore Full time

**Contract type**: Permanent, Full time
**Hours**: 37.5 hrs p/week
**Salary**: Salary: £22,000 p/a (depending on experience)
**Shift Pattern**: Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm with 30 mins lunch
**Location**: Hybrid working 50% home and 50% office based in either Willenhall (West Midlands) or Talbot Green (South Wales)

We are looking for an entrepreneurial & creative person with a flair for content creation, with great knowledge of current videography, animation, and digital/social media trends & platforms. Reporting to the Head of Product Marketing, your role will be to create digital and social content to support, engage, and communicate with customers.

A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is one of the largest privately owned companies in the UK. Our forward-thinking family-owned business began life in 1917 as a counter-service grocery store and has grown from these humble beginnings into a company that now owns 260 SPAR convenience stores and employs more than 7,000 people, with a turnover of £1.3 billion. As one of the largest convenience retailers in the UK, we are always looking for innovative ways to create a point of difference. Food and drink have always been our lifeblood, and today our business has multiple divisions specialising in retail, food service, and wholesale distribution.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Ensure that the company is active across all social media platforms.
- Develop creative ideas, and suggest new innovative ways of delivering digital content in line with the Selling Plan
- Produce content for social and digital channels, including VT and simple animation
- Contribute to and work with the relevant teams in the production of integrated marketing and communication campaigns.
- Review performance data to ensure optimisation of all campaigns

**Key Responsibilities/ Dimensions**:

- Co-ordination of Social Media feeds, organic and paid content
- Updating social media content plan and drafting content
- Work with SPAR CO to ensure consistency of communications
- Liaison with company Divisions for social media content
- Weekend Social Media cover (as per agreed rota)
- Given the nature of Social Media, you may be required to work outside of normal business hours.
- May be required to travel to sites other than normal place of work for business purposes
- Could be required to stay away from home overnight or attend evening events on behalf of the business

**Key knowledge/experience**:

- Driving License
- Experience in digital packages such as Adobe and the creation of digital assets.
- Social Media qualifications preferred
- Experience of Social Media management tools such as Hootsuite
- Excellent reading, writing, and mathematical skills
- Ability to proactively source content
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to work independently
- Strong organisation and planning skills with attention to detail
- Ability to produce accurate work within agreed timelines

**What's in it for you?**
- Excellent benefits package including:

- Holiday, Maternity, and Paternity leave and pay in excess of statutory entitlements
- Develop your skills and capability in a highly supportive and multi-diverse culture
- Outstanding Training & Development
- Generous staff discount in all our SPAR stores (excl. Alcohol & Cigarettes)
- Early access to your pay through 'EarlyPay'
- 24/7 access to your payslips and Rotas via the HR/Payroll Portal
- Wellbeing support - access to emotional support, counseling, legal and financial advice
- Company Pension Scheme
- NEST pension scheme
- Company Life Insurance worth 1 x Annual Salary and 6 x Annual Salary with Company Pension Scheme
- Extra Holidays - Purchase Scheme
- Cycle to work - Bicycle purchase scheme
- Long Service Awards

You may also have experience in the following: Social Media Content Manager, Content Marketing Specialist, Digital Content Strategist, Online Content Producer, Content Creation Coordinator, Multimedia Content Creator, Brand Content Developer, Digital Storyteller, Content Marketing Manager, Creative Content Producer, etc.

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