Associate Copywriter

Lymedale, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Are you a Copywriter with a creative streak a mile wide and the ability to turn your talents to a wide range of wordy challenges? If you’ve got an agency, in-house or even freelance background, this is an amazing opportunity to develop and advance your writing career with us.

About Us

Biglight Ltd is an eCommerce customer experience agency. We work with leading retailers, helping them deepen customer engagement and drive sales.

Our business depends on a team of highly talented specialists who deliver excellent service to our clients. We aim to provide a remarkable career experience for our employees and we’re fortunate enough to work with some fantastic brands and most of our new business comes from recommendations.

We are now looking for an Associate Copywriter to join our team to add magic to the written word and produce outstanding copy every time.

The Role

As an Associate Copywriter, you’ll be one of the lynchpins of our Content Team, creating written pieces that engage audiences, delight readers and deliver online shopping experiences that are second to none.

Online shopping? That’s right, your primary role will be to write fantastic product descriptions that entice customers to purchase items online. You’ll also produce other associated copy around agreed concepts and themes that support a range of our work.

Creating accurate, engaging and, where appropriate, exciting product descriptions, you’ll ensure legal requirements and client briefs are taken into account. You’ll take part in client meetings to provide ideas, take on board feedback and develop an understanding of the tone of voice, brand and requirements each client is looking for.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Look to improve ways of working where quality and volume standards are maintained
- Manage all deadlines, ensuring your work is always delivered on time
- Provide support across the team when training colleagues and freelancers
- Create and update copy guides
- Undertake competitor research to ensure we are ahead of the game

About You

**To be considered as an Associate Copywriter, you’ll need**:

- Previous in-house, agency or freelance copywriting experience
- Experience in writing for SEO
- Familiarity with G Suite including Google Docs, Google Sheets and Gmail
- Excellent attention to detail alongside the ability to work at speed
- Excellent organisational skills including organising own work and supporting more junior team members and freelancers as well as enabling team members to access shared files
- Eager to learn and able to take constructive criticism on board
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

The Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- Group personal pension scheme
- Access to Perkbox employee benefits platform
- Free eye tests for VDU use and contribution towards glasses for VDU use
- Regular business updates and company socials
- Opportunities for professional growth and career development
- 25 days’ annual leave
- Being part of a dynamic, fast-paced agency environment
- Working with a team of incredibly talented professional colleagues

This exciting role will see you utilising your skills and experience, building your writing career and helping us to advance our marketing agency offering as you do it.

You’ll have the chance to immerse yourself in the work at our agency, learn new styles of writing and develop an understanding of the right way to work with clients and deliver superb results.

Other organisations may call this role Content Writer, Copy Editor, Freelance Copywriter, Digital Content Writer, Content Editor, Digital Content Editor, Digital Copywriter, Digital Content Writer, Blog Writer, Digital Content Executive, or Content Executive.

Webrecruit and Biglight are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.