Content Coordinator

Content Coordinator
Based: Havant
Reports to: Head of Content

Our client is a rapidly expanding company looking for talented people who adopt an enthusiastic and determined approach to ‘getting the job done’. They’ve grown a diverse client base in the photo/gift retail market ranging from individual store owners, through high street chains to massive global corporations.
Initially, you will join nearly 80 other staff members based in freshly renovated offices located in a conservation area of Havant. The site has breakout areas, a games room, free on-site employee parking, a sizable garden, fitness suite, a plethora of musical instruments, modern kitchens, copious nerf guns and is only a 15 min walk to the sea.
To make a long story short, they’ve grown a place where they love working and they think you will too...

Main purpose and scope of the job
The successful applicant will coordinate content for global brand names such as Walmart and ASDA.
You’ll be in daily contact with clients helping customers create and order beautiful photo gifts, preserving treasured memories.
You’ll be working as part of a team responsible for organising the addition of new items; helping integrate fulfillers with their systems and updating the current products with fresh new designs.
Their sites are flexible and responsive allowing them to cater for a wide range of devices and client demands so you’ll get to use your CMS, HTML and CSS skills keeping them looking great.

Duties and key responsibilities

• Working closely with colleagues to coordinate and deliver content on time and to the highest standard.
• Liaising with clients for feedback on content or to request further information.
• Updating and configuring web pages to meet client specifications.
• Using in house developed tools and scripts to ingest externally provided designs to a prescribed specification.

Person specification

• Skills and abilities
• Creation of vector graphics, SVG file format and Inkscape a bonus.
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Image composition and editing.
• Working with precise measurements and physical products.
• Good written English skills (grammar & choice of language).

Experience

• Worked in a client facing role with a variety of customers.
• Interpreting a client brief for new content and delivering in a timely manner whilst maintaining high professional standards.
• Developing responsive websites.
• UI/UX, Linux command line, scripting or Git versioning not essential but a bonus.

Knowledge

• Strong HTML/CSS/Bootstrap knowledge.
• Image editing techniques.

Personal attributes and other requirements

• Desire to create high quality visual material.
• Keen eye for detail with meticulous approach to your work.
• Solution focused: proactively tackling projects and tasks in an efficient and positive manner.
• Organising and prioritising a multitude of tasks.
• Comfortable working with technology and able to adapt quickly.
• Enjoys keeping up to date with the latest technology, and working as part of a cutting edge team.

You should apply if you have...

• The ability to make something that’s precise and beautiful
• An excellent interpersonal manner
• Flexibility, discretion, loyalty, patience and a good sense of humour!

The Ideal Candidate:
You're hard-working, efficient, calm... and you are not sure if being called a “pedant” is a criticism. Indeed, you are highly organised but aware that not everybody can live up to your standards. Whilst you are intelligent and enjoy relating to a diverse range of people in new situations, you are happy to get stuck into a variety of random activities as the need arises and always keep on top of your areas of responsibility.

The perks

• An annual salary of £20,000-£26,000 (depending on ability) for the equivalent of a 40-hour week
• 28 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays) rising by a day each year to 31 days after 3 years service
• A generous bonus scheme to reward your contribution to the success of the company
• 4% contributions towards the NEST pension scheme
• Membership of a Health and Wellbeing support scheme
• Childcare Vouchers and membership of a Ride2Work scheme (discounted bicycles)
• A healthy social calendar
• Learning and development opportunities, both internally and externally

Next step
Applications should consist of your CV and a one page covering letter explaining how you fulfil the role above... drawing attention to any particular projects or work you’ve already done which you think is comparable.

If you have the relevant skills / experience required and are interested in this superb opportunity, please apply ASAP.

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