Job: Head of Copy - fast-growing digital agency. Approx £50k, Gabriele Skelton

Employer: Gabriele Skelton
Posted: 29 Oct 2009
Reference: D+RK/B18069
Contact: Rob Kitchen
Location: London
Sector: Retail/Wholesale,
- FMCG - Food,
- FMCG - Household Products,
- FMCG - Confectionery,
- Consumer Goods - Household Appliances,
- Consumer Goods - Leisure Equipment
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Position: Head of Copy - fast-growing digital agency.
- Approx £50k
Salary: Approx £50k

Fantastic role to head up the copy department including management responsibilities for a reputable and expanding mid-sized Digital Agency in Central London. You will be a real all-rounder across strategic well crafted long copy and marcomms. Retail accounts experience is a must!

My client is a rapidly growing, mid-sized digital agency with an integrated soul. Located in a key area of Central London, they create experiences that nurture relationships between consumers and brands that are profitable to their clients and life-enriching to consumers. They are leaders in family, household and retail digital marketing with a great blue-chip client list of Internationally recognized brands. Consistently delivering industry leading results and building enduring relationships with their clients.

The team’s driven by the brands they work for. They have tons of tenacity to see good ideas into great executions. They work with lots of integrity – with a genuine love of consumer retail and FMCG.

The Role

This role of Head of Copy would suit a senior hybrid copywriter with a great balance of websites and campaigns and really importantly is forward thinking in the realms digital. You will have a conceptual and strategic mind that can craft long copy and content for websites and also deliver shorter more impactful work for marketing communications. So all in all a well balanced portfolio that demonstrates an in-depth understanding of copy. This position requires management experience to oversee and department that fluctuates depending on size of project from 3 to 8 in the team.

Key day-to-day tasks for this Head of Copy include;

+ Management experience to help the Creative Director by guiding and overseeing the writers in the department.
+ Passion for retail and good client portfolio to support this.
+ You will have around 7 years online experience, with a well-rounded hybrid portfolio – ie, not just marcomms OR design and build. Must also be content strategy focused!!
+ The ability to lead from the front by producing excellent marketing concepts and long copy as well as overseeing 2 full timers and buying in freelance project by project if needed (when busy, up to 8 writers).
+ It’s possible that you come from an integrated background, but you must have seriously good handle of all things digital, with a quality portfolio to support this.
+ The role is client-facing and you will be working closely with the Creative Director on presentations and pitches.

Salary: Circa £50k (a degree of flexibility for the right candidate).

Location: Central London