Digital Content Manager

We are
Company of Cooks
, and we believe brilliant food and drink starts with brilliant people. For over 25 years, we've been part of some of the UK's most loved cultural destinations, from historic palaces and botanical gardens to buzzing galleries and performance spaces, running the cafés, restaurants, bars and events that bring these incredible places to life.

Our values - Craft, Creativity and Community - guide everything we do. They shape how we work together, how we support our partners, and how we make each guest feel welcome. If you care about food, people and doing things properly, you'll feel right at home here.

Wherever we are, we do more than serve. We bring places to life through food, service and creativity and
we are looking for a hands-on, creative, and digitally-savvy Digital Content Manager to join our amazing team in London.

Location: WC1H 9LT

Salary: £44,000 per annum

Working Pattern: Hybrid role, based at head office 2-3 days a week, 40 hours per week although predominantly Monday – Friday 9 but flexibility is required for content capture at events (evening and potentially the odd weekend)

Your key responsibilities will include:

Content Capture & Creation:
Proactively attend events and visit sites across Company of Cooks and eve to capture engaging photo and video content that brings our food, drink, people, and experiences to life.

Internal Social Media Management:
Lead the planning, scheduling, and publishing of content across brand and venue-level social channels, ensuring tone of voice, aesthetic, and messaging are consistently on brand, in collaboration with our digital marketing agency who will support on planning and execution.

Creative Briefing:
Where needed, brief designers, photographers, videographers, and editors to support content production, ensuring deliverables meet deadlines and brand standards.

Website & Email Content:
Ensure websites are visually fresh and up-todate with compelling imagery, and support e-newsletter creation through asset development.

Community Engagement:
Support community-building online through active management of content, comments, tags, and DMs (where relevant).

On-the-Ground Agility:
Be responsive and mobile, able to attend events or respond quickly to content opportunities as they arise

Brand Representation: S
erve as an ambassador for the company at relevant external industry and brand events.

Risk Management:
Proactively identify reputational, brand and financial risks within marketing activity.

Health & Safety / Compliance:
Ensure all marketing activity complies with internal brand standards, safeguarding, GDPR, and health & safety policies

The ideal candidate will :

• Have 3+ years' experience in a content-led digitally-prevalent marketing role, ideally within hospitality, events, or lifestyle brands
• Be confident behind a camera and experienced in shooting, editing, and publishing social-first content (particularly Reels, TikToks, and Stories)
• Demonstrable experience managing social media channels and content calendars with a portfolio of successful work
• Have excellent copywriting skills and attention to detail
• Will be comfortable working independently and out on-site – this is not a desk-based role
• Be creative eye and passion for storytelling, food, people, and place
• Have strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple projects at pace
• Have proficiency with tools like Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or mobile editing apps is highly desirable
  • CMS and email marketing experience a plus

What's in it for you?

Working with
Company Of Cooks
has its perks People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.

• Personal Development and Training opportunities
• Life assurance scheme
• Pension scheme
• Holiday allowance
• Access to Healthcare Support App which includes
  Annual health check, Digital GP, Mental Health Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinion
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
• Family friendly support
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Volunteering days
• Professional subscriptions
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers