Description
A leading travel organisation based in London is seeking a Content Manager to join their team on a 12 month contract.
The successful candidate will have creative writing skills with a journalism or editorial experience and a knowledge of various writing styles, such as blog writing, composing texts for the company website, journalistic writing. You MUST be native/fluent German speaker.
Responsibilities:
- Contacting and coordinating our bloggers/freelancers for our content hubs
- Ordering content from text agencies
- Expanding the network (including attendance at relevant blogger events etc.)
- Enhancing and implementing our blog and Globetrotter strategy
- Editorial responsibility of blog and globetrotter entries as well as editorial writing (incl. interviews with experts).
- Researching new topics and updating the content calendar
- Sourcing images (iStock, EDAM etc.)
- Cooperation with Social Media, Merchandising and PR in order to push relevant contributions
- Doing outreach for our content management campaigns
- Setting up new features and templates within both platforms
- Work with developers to improve and develop the content hubs
- Set up of reports (KPIs) on a regular basis (Google Analytics, Omniture, SEOClarity); analyse, monitor and report outcome on projects and identify new opportunities and strategies in the market
- Reporting about the spends for bloggers/freelancers and other content production
- Management of bloggers/freelancers via Lystable (contracts, onboarding process, invoicing)
- Competitor analysis and opportunity research
- Participation in UAT testings
- Optimise articles from a SEO perspective
Skills and Qualities:
- Prolific writing skills with journalistic or editorial experience (also PR) and a knowledge of various writing styles, such as blog writing, composing texts for the company website, journalistic writing etc.
- A good sense and creativity for choosing topics and assessing relevance; detecting trends
- Research skills (SEO perspective)
- Personal motivation to contact, acquire and manage bloggers and journalists. Having a good network in place is advantageous, but proper motivation and a reliable feeling will suffice.
- Technical understanding and work experience with CMS systems (Umbraco), Wordpress
- Good analytical understanding
- Efficient and self-driven, ability to maintain deadlines
- Strong communication skills
- Strong written, numerical, analytical and creative skills - able to come up with great ideas and winning strategies that help websites stand out.
- Strong coordination/project management skills and attention to detail
- First experiences with site analytics solutions such as GA, SEOClarity, Omniture - ability to analyse and derive useful insights from the data sets.
- Sound business acumen
- Motivation to learn the use of new tools (open minded), participate in trainings
- Flexibility to get in charge of new tasks
- Ideally, you should be a native/fluent German speaker, possess strong communication skills, have a variety of interests and be a team player.
If you feel you fit the above criteria, please apply today.
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