We're looking for a Copywriter to join our team in London as part of our Marketing function.
Your team: You will work in close collaboration with all current and future members of the LIONS Marketing team, including the VP of Marketing, Creative Director, Senior Social Media Editor – as well as copywriters, art directors, digital producers, other designers, as well as marketing managers and colleagues in other departments.
Your Role: You will be a vital member of the creative team – and will work on a wide variety of creative projects from brief to delivery for all our products, awards and events. You will drive high creative standards and be a brand guardian for the globally known LIONS brand and our portfolio, which includes LIONS Membership, The Work, Advisory, Learning, Cannes Lions, Eurobest, and more.
Your direct contribution includes, but is not limited to, the production of creative and advertising copy for both event assets and film, writing for design, content writing for email and social media executions, internal and external announcements and toolkits, creative pitches with external partners.
Key accountabilities
- Owning briefs from start to completion. Writing and testing work to make sure each brief objective is completed in full, on time, and in line with company/brand standards.
- Liaise and collaborate with relevant business partners to produce copy and content. Will follow-up with questions, updates, and edits as needed.
- Ability to work independently to lead a creative project, while continually sharing progress with stakeholders on the Marketing team and across the business.
- Write content for a variety of projects across marketing activities including, email, social media assets, web assets, content reports, supporting collateral, advertisements.
- This role involves close collaboration with all current and future members of the LIONS Marketing team, including the VP of Marketing, Creative Director, other copywriters, art directors, digital producers, designers – as well as marketing managers and colleagues in other departments.
- Ability to thrive in an exciting and busy environment, working for an iconic brand.
- Strong problem-solving skills and initiative. Motivates and inspires the team around them.
- Belief in the power of creativity.
This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you will be required to deliver.
Your Experience
- Ability to write compelling copy, content and concepts that meet project requirements, brand guidelines and LIONS creative standards.
- Creativity and storytelling. You are a source of original, conceptual ideas and hooks that people want to spend time with, and talk to others about. You will be passionate and curious about all aspects of creativity.
- A portfolio of client work for a range of sectors from B2C to B2C.
- A clear ability to write both long-form and short-form content.
- Experience in the Creative Industry and a keen awareness of the trends, topics and operations within it.
- Communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent organisational skills required; must be able to handle multiple projects and produce a high volume of quality work within tight deadlines.
- Self-motivated and able to own creative projects, but still be a team player, comfortable with following direction and receiving feedback as required.
- Some experience as a writer in the creative industry. Relevant experience working in a team based environment is ideal.
If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At LIONS, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
Who are we?
The LIONS brand is probably most synonymous with Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, the definitive meeting place for the global creative communications and advertising community. It’s five days of inspiration, aspiration, unlimited magic and potential. The Festival has been championing creative excellence since 1954 with the goal of providing a global destination and the definitive benchmark for creativity that drives progress.
LIONS is going through an exciting time as it’s recently repositioned as The Home of Creativity, supporting those in the business of creativity at every step of their journeys with an extended portfolio of new advisory, learning and intelligence services. Our purpose is to drive progress through creativity for an incredibly diverse and talented global creative community.
You will join a team of change makers. The team’s purpose is to champion change to create the most powerful global creative community and drive growth for the brand.
LIONS is an Ascential company. Ascential delivers specialist information, analytics and ecommerce optimisation platforms to the world's leading consumer brands and their ecosystems. We help our customers to make smart decisions that improve performance now, and in the future.
With more than 3,00 employees across five continents, we combine local expertise with a global footprint for clients in over 120 countries. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Why choose us?
At Ascential, diversity, equity and inclusion is core to us. We’re a company built around our people - and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them to be the best they can be. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to Ascential. Our employee-led groups and networks, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and EmPower: An Ascential Women's Initiative, Shalom Ascential and Latinx, help us to create a place where communities and allies can connect and share experiences.
We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.
Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.
We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here.
Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:
- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Great learning and development opportunities.
We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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