Digital Marketing and Content Executive

Our client is one of the oldest lamp businesses in the UK, founded in 1870's their unique selling points are its brand, comprehensive product portfolio, customer service and product quality.

• Are you technically astute with a demonstrable knowledge and background in E-Commerce website trading?
• Would you like a role which is both challenging and rewarding?
• This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a role with genuine responsibility for delivering results and thrives in a busy ecommerce environment.
• If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, are technically astute in and have an instinctive feel for optimising on-line sales then keep reading.

THE ROLE:

Under direction of the E Commerce Manager, as Digital Marketing and Content Executive you will be responsible for the co-ordination, setting-up and maintenance of products and content pages for lightbulbs-direct and other subsidiary websites, creating engaging content, marketing emails and additional operational functions on a day-to-day basis.

THE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Update daily website content (products, creative content, blog, promotions);
• Maintain the online product range including; sourcing and setup of all product attributes, images, specifications and product association to meet site standards and ensuring all content is SEO friendly.
• Working closely with the wider team to produce content for (but not limited to) social, email, web and search.
• Manage Blog and Social Media activity across all networks
• Complete a wide range of relevant tasks to support business objectives as required.
• Able to support creative teams such as content creation and content strategy for emails and blogs 

THE PERSONAL SPECIFICATION:

Skills and experience required: 

You'll need to be passionate about content creation and digital marketing, and have a keen willingness to learn copy writing and marketing skills a must.

• Experience of working in Magento or a similar E Commerce platform
• Basic knowledge of coding and developing an advantage.
• We are looking for somebody with a keen interest in ecommerce, CRM, mobile, online marketing and social media
• A ‘hands on’, diligent, organised person who is used to juggling multiple projects and delivering to tight timescales.
• Conduct research to extract key selling points and targeted keywords for various product ranges
• Someone with great attention to detail and creative flair, whether that’s with copy writing or creating social media campaigns.
• Content and creative marketing experience.
• Commercially minded, self-starter who is happy to roll up their sleeves
• Creative flair to produce informative, interesting and relevant content
• Knowledge of on page SEO
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and Adobe CS design suite an advantage. 

Essential Experience

• Experience of updating websites using a content management system
• Experience of writing digital marketing copy
• Hands on experience of managing social media
• Experience of using Excel to produce reports
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).

This is a full time role offering a salary of £17 – 22K (dependant on experience) plus the opportunity for future career progression with a fast growing and successful company. 

Please apply with your most recent up to date CV, our client is an equal opportunities employer.