Salary: Starting from £32,000.00 (depending on experience) plus benefits.

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Duration: Permanent

Location: South Ockendon

About the role

Lloyd & Whyte, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Social Media and Content Executive to join our Marketing team in their South Ockendon office.

The role of Social Media and Content Executive will be someone who is a confident copywriter and has good experience working across all key social media channels, in both a B2B and B2C capacity. The successful candidate needs experience in social media marketing and will understand the fast pace of communications across digital and social media.

Joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation. 

Key responsibilities

• Manage and grow our social media channels developing content strategies to foster community engagement, grow followers, and drive brand connection
  
• Drive marketing campaigns and influencer activities to deliver commercial impact and brand awareness
  
• Creation of content strategy with our Head of Marketing
  
• Plan and create engaging UGC & ECG content
  
• Help to design (alongside agency) social media assets
  
• Experience in advanced paid social strategies
  
• Creating exemplary on-brand copywriting for full-funnel content across various channels (social, print, blog)
  
• Plan and assist on videography shoots
  
• Produce engaging videos – both long and short form alongside interactive content
  
• Coming up with content ideas for social calendars and campaigns
  
• Identifying digital, social, content and communication trends and putting these into practice
  
• Contributing to strategic content planning meetings
  
• Knowledge of Press Office functions / experience in advertising
  
• Helping to generate ideas for newsworthy content
  
• Helping to write articles for key magazine outlets
  
• Supporting at key events throughout the year
  
• Copywriting for organic and paid content, copywriting for emails and building them through our email marketing platform, DotDigital.
  
• Have an awareness of search engine optimisation and maintain a keen understanding of the latest marketing trends and best practice.
  
• Liaise with company partners such as our external digital specialist and design agency, as well as key senior stakeholders like our Commercial Director and CEO.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent internal and external communication skills
  
• Able to work with people at all levels and show good stakeholder management
  
• Good understanding of the commercial side of social media
  
• Strong copywriting skills for both B2B and B2C audiences
  
• Excellent organisation skills
  
• A self-critical, keen eye for detail
  
• Collaborative and cooperative
  
• Always up to date with current affairs and trends across our niche markets
  
• A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on a company’s success
  
• Good grasp of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
  
• Excellent knowledge of Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok and Instagram social media best practices
  
• Always up to date with social media content best practices, specs and requirements
  
• Ability to work autonomously to tight deadlines
  
• Managing and curating emails (content, build, test sending and delivery through Communicator).
  
• Experience producing/managing video content desirable
  
• Equestrian knowledge/interest desirable
  
• Full UK driving license and willingness to drive to events and other offices as/when required

What we offer

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Your birthday off
• Group Personal Pension
• Bonus scheme
• A holiday buy scheme 
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, company cash plan, income protection and life assurance
• Enhanced sick pay and parental leave
• Support and funding toward study and professional qualifications
• Paid time off for volunteering

Lloyd & Whyte offer a range of specialist insurance services to a variety of clients. Our specialisms range from niche scheme insurance for Healthcare professionals to expert insurance for commercial motor vehicles and professional broker-to-broker insurance services. We also have a wide range of personal insurance services that cover homeowners from standard houses through to thatch & listed character properties and high value homes. The Lloyd & Whyte Group is split into five different client divisions which include multiple companies and brands.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.