Responsibilities

• Owning and developing the firm's content and thought leadership strategy.
• Defining content pillars, themes and narratives that guide editorial activity.
• Ensuring content supports wider marketing, communications and business development objectives.
• Leading the firm's social media strategy and ensuring channels are used effectively to support engagement, thought leadership and brand building.
• Managing and developing Content and Social Media team members.
• Acting as the final editorial authority for content quality, tone of voice and brand consistency.
• Establishing governance, frameworks and standards for content production.
• Developing firm-wide content planning processes and operating models.
• Measuring content effectiveness and demonstrating commercial impact.
• Partnering with Digital teams to improve SEO, authority building and AI-driven discoverability.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience within content, editorial or communications leadership.
• Experience developing and governing content frameworks and operating models.
• Strong editorial judgement and quality standards.
• Experience leading teams and managing managers.
• Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.
• Understanding of content performance measurement, SEO and content management platforms.
• Experience demonstrating content contribution to commercial outcomes.
• Strong understanding of content and social media within both B2B and B2C environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Collaborative leadership style with strong professional judgement.

Benefits

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
• We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
• We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
• Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.