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We care and it shows. We pride ourselves on employing the leading minds in creative content and have offices in London, Hong Kong and Cape Town. What does it take to be a Cedar person? Talent, humanity and commitment – and a ‘Yes we can’ mentality our clients love. Sound like you? Then join us. We draw on the talents of the whole team, from the most junior to most senior, to deliver the exceptional. Together we produce fabulous multi-platform content with an unexpected twist – and always with a human touch.

But that’s enough about us. We’re not the point – you are.

  • .NET Umbraco Developer London

    Cedar is looking for a full-time permanent .NET Umbraco developer to work on a number of well-known global client website projects.

    We are looking for someone with solid and recent experience in Umbraco and ASP.NET/C#, MVC as well as experience with REST/API architecture. Experience working in a digital agency environment is desirable. 

    You will be working closely with Front End and .NET developers across new and existing client projects. There is a requirement to work across other technologies, but also opportunities to get involved in cutting-edge .NET/Umbraco based proof of concepts.

    To apply for this role you will need a strong level of experience in the following:

    • Umbraco 7.x to 8.x (at least 3-4 years)
    • ASP.NET MVC C# (new projects)
    • A solid understanding of API based architecture, REST and the WebAPI .NET framework
    • Git, source control tools (Merge/Diff)
    • Visual Studio 2017-2019
    • Lucene, Solr (or another search platform)
    • An ability to effectively diagnose and fix errors
    • A strong understanding of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, IIS and deployments

    ASP.NET Webforms and SQL Server experience will be a bonus as the role may involve supporting legacy sites from time to time.

    Aside from the technical skills and expertise listed above, the role also requires the following: 

    • An exceptional eye for detail
    • Working with internal and external stakeholders and clients 
    • A team player with initiative, enthusiasm and a can-do attitude, but equally comfortable working by yourself
    • Highly developed communication and literacy 
    • Ability to operate with speed, flexibility, and accuracy
    • Ability to work under pressure and to deal with challenges quickly and effectively
    • A love of finding technical solutions and coming up with ideas to solve a business challenge
    • Competent in Microsoft Office programmes

    This role forms part of the digital team at Cedar working closely and collaboratively with editorial and design colleagues across the business, as well as in our overseas offices. 

    The Cedar team is currently working from home. The role will have a mix of home working and office-based working once government guidelines allow. If you are interested in applying for this role please send in your cv with a covering letter to Hannah.emery@cedarcom.co.uk by 26th November.

     

  • CRM Email Executive – 6 month fixed-term contract London

    REPORTS TO: Customer Communications Hub Manager – British Airways

    Group Account Director - Cedar

    DIRECT REPORTS: N/A

    Job Purpose

    The Email Executive role is a 70%  “implant” role at British Airways within their CRM and communications team, one of Cedar’s key clients across its travel and luxury accounts. The other 30% will be working across the Cedar travel and luxury hub. This work will range from assisting the editorial teams with content production, research and ideas, to working within the account management team to assist on project delivery. The role will work across all travel and luxury accounts within the business, comprising British Airways (BA), Iberia, Aer Lingus, Mandarin Oriental, Eurostar, The Dorchester, IWG and Nikon. The role has a primary focus on the BA account supporting the day-to-day running of all BA projects from a content and commercial perspective.  

    PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

    British Airways: To join a highly motivated communications and marketing team at one of the world’s most iconic airlines. You will play an important part in British Airways’ communications with their customers, liaising between British Airways and Cedar in order to plan, build and deploy two monthly emails and websites for The Club and High Life Digital.

    Support the Relationship Marketing team at BA by planning content based on BA’s seasonal priorities, proof-reading content and issuing amendments, submitting content needed to build emails according to a rigorous schedule and reporting on email performance.

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

    Email & content creation: 

    • Keep on top of BA’s tight monthly schedule for production of both emails, ensuring that teams at both BA and Cedar are aware of key deadlines and providing content on time.
    • View all email content coming from Cedar with a “BA lens”, ensuring that content aligns with current brand events and priorities.
    • Proof-read email content throughout many different iterations of proofs and drafts, ensuring that all links, copy and images are correct.
    • Liaise between internal BA teams for feedback on digital magazine articles and then collate responses to inform Cedar of necessary amendments.
    • Manage competitions run via The Club, building competition pages, taking them down at their expiry and notifying Cedar of the winners.
    • Update internal BA SharePoint files with email content, images, proofs and briefs.

    Reporting: 

    • Create monthly presentations for both BA and Cedar use, reporting on the email engagement of High Life Digital and The Club.
    • Monitor web traffic and user engagement on articles using Google Analytics and submit weekly to BA.

    Place of work:

    • Currently flexible working from home across both BA and Cedar offices, however, if British Airways return to office the role will be based at BA’s headquarters at London Heathrow two days a week.  

    REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

    Above all, this role requires someone who is incredibly organised and able to juggle multiple tasks at the same time. The successful candidate will be a self-starter and be able to work well alone, as well as part of a team.

    Desired experience and skills

    • Working with internal and external stakeholders and clients, account management
    • An exceptional eye for detail
    • A good level of technical knowledge of websites and their CMS
    • Team player with enthusiasm and can-do attitude
    • Highly developed communication, literacy and presentation skills
    • Ability to operate with speed, flexibility, creativity and accuracy
    • Ability to work under pressure and to deal with challenges quickly and effectively
    • Competent in Microsoft Office programme

    How to apply: Please email your cover letter and CV demonstrating your relevant experience to hannah.emery@cedarcom.co.uk  

    Closing date for applications: 7 December 2020 

     

     

  • Senior Account Director, Tesco London

    LINE MANAGER: Business Director

    OVERVIEW

    Cedar Communications is looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Account Director to join one of their biggest and most innovative accounts, Tesco. The Senior Account Director will be responsible for leading the ‘always on’ food portfolio consisting of: cross-channel seasonal campaigns, the social media channels and Tesco Real Food Online (TRF).

    ROLE OBJECTIVES

    • Lead the campaign, social and TRF account management teams to ensure that they are functioning effectively across channels
    • Look after the day-to-day relationship with multiple mid-level and senior Tesco clients
    • Maintain and optimize process and systems that ensure the smooth running of your areas of the account
    • Produce presentations and proposals for clients as required
    • Drive forward the digital-first agenda and ensure Cedar are constantly innovating
    • Provide leadership within account management and across the agency
    • Empower and provide guidance to direct reports

    SKILLS & EXPERTISE

    • Strong leadership skills with the ability to facilitate collaboration across departments
    • Adept at producing cross-channel content with a focus on digital and social
    • Experienced in overseeing web design and build projects
    • A good commercial and financial understanding
    • A practiced and confident presenter
    • The ability to manage stakeholder expectations
    • Interagency working experience
    • Line management experience
    • A passion for digital transformation and content

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Commercial

    • Manage and coordinate budgets, including reviewing all budgets created across the team to ensure that these are created responsibly, and to reduce any unforecast costs
    • Work with the finance team to ensure all costs have been through internal sign off processes, are reconciled on time, and that invoicing and payment is managed successfully

    Account growth

    • Identify growth opportunities for Cedar across your area of the account, and create business plans to outline the proposed route to pursue the opportunities and reach targets
    • Coordinate organic business opportunities within the account

    Strategy

    • Develop a clear understanding of Tesco’s business objectives, and be proactive and creative; adding value to Tesco’s relationship with Cedar
    • Work with the Business Director, Group Innovation Director and channel heads in formulating strategies for the food proposition, and campaign planning. Together, own the strategic overview for all the seasonal channels.
    • Collaborate with the Global Innovation Director and Cedar DCX’s digital teams on digital transformation projects stemming from Tesco’s long-term content vision

    Channel and campaign management

    • Responsible for driving forward all new digital dev projects as part of the Tesco Real Food website transformation
    • Looks for opportunities to improve the cross-channel planning process to be more efficient and effective
    • Overall governance for Tesco social and RFO channels and five seasonal campaigns each year

    Liaison

    • Liaison externally with multiple Tesco clients and agencies

    Team/ People Development

    • Establishes strong working relationships with all staff within Cedar
    • Regularly provide reports to the Business Director
    • Develops, trains, and motivates direct reports, and acts as mentor to colleagues and direct reports

    How to apply: Please email your cover letter and CV demonstrating your relevant experience to hannah.emery@cedarcom.co.uk and kate.mcleod@cedarcom.co.uk Closing date for applications: 24 December 2020

     

We are always interested in hearing from talented people, so if you’d like to work with us but there’s no suitable role at the moment, just drop us a line with your CV to: hannah.emery@cedarcom.co.uk

At Cedar, we have an underlying belief that our services should reflect the society in which we live. Be that Age, Disability, Education, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender identity, National Origin, Race, Religion or Belief or Sexual Orientation. 

Simply, we believe that Inclusion and Diversity makes for a more stimulating, creative and inspiring working environment, where people are treated with respect and can be comfortable being themselves. Embracing these different approaches and thinking helps deliver tangible and positive results for our clients' businesses.

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