Content Manager

Emap; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 28,000

Job description

Business: emap

Brand: Headlinemoney

Base Location: Croydon, London/Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time, Permanent

Salary: £25,000 - £27,300 DOE

About the company and the brand:

Trading as emap for its B2B division, Metropolis International is a fast-growing business, privately owned Media Group with over £50m of annual revenue, structured in two divisions - consumer media, and business-to-business media. In both parts of the business, we run print magazines, digital content and both face-to-face and virtual awards, conferences, and other events. Metropolis is actively looking at acquiring more media businesses. We employ over 480 people in offices in Croydon, Fleet street, Devon and Dublin.

Headlinemoney is the digital service at the heart of financial services media. We have been successfully bringing together the financial press and the UK's financial services industry since 2002. Our main service is the digital platform, Headlinemoney web page, featuring press content, media communications and directories, daily email round-ups and interviews. Alongside the platform, we run market-leading in-person events such as the Headlinemoney Awards, known as the 'Oscars' for the money media, and Masterclasses.

Overall Purpose of the Role:

The purpose of the Content Manager role is to help maintain the platform's press resources, content and directories. The Content Manager will curate the press release newsfeed service, posting, uploading and updating content. A key task will be preparing the daily email alert round-up for Headlinemoney members. Working alongside the Head of Content and Strategy, the Content Manager will provide support around features, content and events, assisting in increasing member numbers and engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Curate Headlinemoney's press release newsfeed by posting member's content to the platform and repackaging this content for journalists.
2. Look after the platform's resources, such as the events calendar, media directories, topic rooms and user guides.
3. Use social media to increase the reach of the platform's content and raise the profile of the brand.
4. Produce regular email alerts, rounding up the latest money media news and summarising upcoming events for the financial media.
5. Assist Headlinemoney's Head of Content and Strategy in updating features, guides and content and general member account management.
6. Attend industry functions as an ambassador for the brand.
7. Support the Head of Content in efforts to create a more engaged user base.
8. Maintaining the daily rolling press release newsfeed by promptly and accurately uploading member content to the platform.
9. Source, process and publish other financial services content relevant to Headlinemoney's audience.
10. Ensuring posts are correctly formatted and tagged, sourcing and resizing images when required.
11. Producing daily email round-ups that highlight member content, are easy-to-read, interesting, informative, engaging and accurate.
12. Maintaining events calendar and writing a weekly email updating members on upcoming events.
13. Using social media to drive awareness, increase traffic and raise the profile of the brand's content.
14. Proof-reading and editing emails and features.
15. Contribute ideas and implement changes where necessary.
16. Assisting Headlinemoney's Head of Content and Strategy when required in general maintenance of the platform's content and resources, writing posts, reviewing features and content, commissioning interviews and promoting events and demonstrating the service to members.
17. Liaising with the commercial team with information about member company's interaction.
18. Helping with events in a variety of capacities, such as attending judging sessions, writing social media posts, proof-reading copy and marketing materials.
19. Manage and encourage participation in the monthly journalist prize draw.
20. Representing Headlinemoney and assisting in-person at the Headlinemoney Awards and Masterclasses.
21. To adhere to company policies including the Anti-Bribery and Corruption policy.

Core Competencies:

1. Keen attention to detail and accuracy.
2. Excellent time management and organisational abilities.
3. Strong editing and proofreading skills.
4. Good writing skills to produce engaging, informative and accurate copy tailored for the target audience.
5. Strong social media skills.
6. Knowledge of financial services beneficial, but not essential.
7. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - both internally and externally.
8. Ability to work well in a small team.
9. Creativity and ability to come up with new ideas.
10. Hard working and professional, with high standards.
11. Account management experience useful.
12. Flexible, adaptable and pro-active. Able to work on own initiative.
13. Confidence around digital technology, particularly social media, websites and content management systems, as well as Microsoft Office products.
14. Self-reliance and ability to take on and manage projects, while at the same time knowing when to ask for guidance, assistant and advice.

What we offer:

Learning & Development: At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees. Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organizational objectives.

To support our employees' career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.

Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.

1. 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days.
2. One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day.
3. Health plan.
4. Life assurance.
5. Private virtual GP access.
6. Seasonal flu jabs available at the office.
7. Continuous learning & development opportunities.
8. In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects.
9. Cycle-to-work scheme.
10. Discounted gym memberships.
11. Retail discount vouchers.
12. Rail season ticket loans.
13. Pension scheme.
14. One paid volunteer day per year.
15. Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations.
16. Work from home during August.
17. Income protection and more.

Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at our page.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.