Brand Assistant (Industry Placement Year)

Greater London, Kensington and Chelsea, UK (Hybrid)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the flow of brand operations, coordinating campaigns, assets, and ambassador content to keep Mindful Chef on-brand across external PR, digital, and on-site shoots.

  • Campaign Management and Brand Governance: support quarterly Brand & Trade initiatives, briefs, and collateral quality control.
  • Ambassador & Content Coordination: plan and align content with ambassadors across social channels and blogs, ensuring consistent messaging.
  • Asset, Site, and Shoot Support: curate branding assets, update digital pages, and provide on-site shoot logistics and props management.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Management: Assist in the execution of quarterly Brand & Trade initiatives, including submitting creative briefs on time and ensuring all collateral meets strict brand standards.
  • Brand Standards: Serve as a key internal brand champion, helping to ensure brand guidelines are followed consistently across all production and communication activities (e.g., printed materials, internal comms).
  • Asset Management: Help maintain organised brand documentation and asset libraries for easy retrieval by marketing, design, and external teams.
  • Public Relations (PR) Support: Provide day-to-day PR assistance, including managing and responding to media image requests from external partners and journalists.
  • Ambassador Coordination: Support content planning and coordination with key ambassadors (e.g., The Gut Health Doctor) across social media channels and blog platforms.
  • Gifting Logistics: Manage the end-to-end process of gifting initiatives for both the PR team and the ambassador programme (including the Mindful Chef Supper Club).
  • Digital Content Management: Manage and update website banners and Hubspot content pages to maintain crucial brand and campaign consistency across digital platforms.
  • Shoot Support: Provide reliable on-site operational support during photo and video shoots for brand content, partners, and ambassadors. This includes being responsible for prop ordering and inventory.
  • Team Liaison: Act as the primary point of contact and link between the marketing team and the kitchen/operational teams, ensuring clear, consistent communication regarding new product launches or campaigns.

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled on an undergraduate degree (Marketing, Business, Communications, or similar) with a placement year requirement.
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
  • Clear, confident communicator (written and verbal).
  • Proactive, hands-on and willing to support across logistics and operations.
  • Interest in content, branding and marketing.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Hubspot, CMS platforms or social tools is a bonus (not essential).
  • A genuine passion for food, health and the brand mission.

Benefits

  • Be part of a Better Business (B-Corp), making a positive impact on profit, people, and planet.
  • Join an award-winning startup backed by the largest food and beverage company globally.
  • Experience a workplace that feels like home, complete with free meals, a gym, a vertical farm, and pet-friendly policies.
  • Prioritise your well-being with perks like Vitality health insurance, access to learning resources, mental health support, and a generous holiday package (30 days + bank holidays).
  • Enhanced policy of up to 6 months full pay primary parental leave and up to 6 weeks full pay secondary parental leave.
  • Hybrid working from our office based in Wandsworth.
  • 50% discount on all Mindful Chef products.

Mindful Chef

Founded with a vision to elevate the well-being of others through incredible food by thinking differently. Developed a distributed meal preparation approach driven by excess capacity, founded on algorithmic menu & recipe curation, and capable of accommodating personalization based on behavior & preferences. *Mindful Chef merged with Power Supply in June 2013.

Founded in 2012
Washington, Wisconsin, USA