Creative Content Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

12/17/2024

Summary

Are you ready to make your mark on one of the UK’s most trusted and talked about brands?

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful development, execution, and supply of creative content across M&S – more specifically the Corporate Affairs team. Continuously looking for innovative ways to capture and design compelling content.

The Corporate Affairs team are accountable for building belief in M&S’s transformation and growing its relevancy, all while maintaining exceptional public trust in the brand. We are a digital first communications team, dynamic, creative and increasingly data driven, and we need dynamic creative and data-driven people to help us drive the change we need to make.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

All the details

What’s In It For You

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality,

value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and
• many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
  
  
  

What You’ll Do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Co-ordinate and direct the pre-production process, including concept development, storyboarding, and script analysis. Help develop and organise our in-house video marketing strategy
• Manage and support our in-house Graphic Designer to conceptualise and develop designs, oversee art direction, ensuring consistency and alignment with project objectives and brand style.
• Direct, film and edit videos to the highest standard across multiple platforms – social media, internal, events and more. Ensuring compliance with legal standards, securing all necessary filming/ photography permits and rights.
• Evaluate potential risks associated with projects, implementing preventative strategies.
• Stay ahead of the latest industry trends and advancements in video production technology. Work closely with the Content & Channels Manager and Graphic Designer to bring the M&S story to life.
  
  
  

Who you are

Your Skills And Experience Will Include

• Experience using all camera equipment – both photography and videography, and sound recording equipment with knowledge of numerous camera operating techniques, video styles and video formats
• Evidential post-production experience in editing video and audio to a high standard, with an understanding of video editing software (Premier Pro)
• Experience with Adobe suite such as Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects
• A good understanding and experience of designing across multiple business channels from print to social to digital with experience working with business partners with confidence – with the ability to direct professionally.
• Ability to prototype to visualise and demonstrate ideas in a fast paced environment
  
  
  

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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