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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.

Please look below for details of our current vacancies.

• Content director, Tesco London

  OVERVIEW

  The content director on the Tesco account is the lead content creative for the output delivered on behalf of Tesco. Their role is to ensure quality control of our content to the consumer and client, to develop the content strategy across the account and ensure that the teams are delivering to that vision, to manage and provide leadership, inspiration and development for our content teams and to have a focus on finding news way to innovate (whether through content or ways of working), as well as seek new business opportunities.

  CHANGE OBJECTIVES:

  Cedar would like to bring in someone in this role that has a good mix of print, social and digital expertise to inform ‘big picture’ ideas that have the potential to be executed across multi-channel comms.

  We need a strategic thinker who can see the big picture and deliver strategic thought leadership and work to the client, and be well versed in measurement and paid media strategies for digital and social so can influence the strategy of the media agency when it comes to content

  Most importantly, what we are looking for is a confident leader who has significant managerial experience to help support and nurture talent across the editorial team. We need a manager who will champion the individual talents across this team and foster a collaborative way of working across the entire account.

  ROLE OBJECTIVES:

  • • Ensuring highest quality content standards across the portfolio
  • • Sign off and input of all RTB’s to clients
  • • Develop content strategy in line with Tesco objectives and with a focus on ROI, alongside the strategy director, business director and group art director
  • • Focused on developing our current social and digital offering for Tesco and providing content innovation for those channels by overseeing and inputting into our campaign planning process and strategic response to briefs, as well as developing proactive campaign ideas to take to Tesco
  • • To work closely with our senior digital content editor in developing proactive digital first campaign ideas and upskilling our client in the area of PPC, strategic thinking and social channel innovations
  • • Support development strategy across all the Tesco channels Cedar manages
  • • Confident using insights and working with strategy and insights team to guide content ideation
  • • To ensure metrics and measurement become a more integral part of content creation
  • • To translate content talk to ‘marketing talk’ for our clients and make sure it ladders back to business objectives
  • • Works with editorial teams where required to lead and shape the creative outputs and ensure we are delivering a fully-integrated cross-channel solution
  • • Guardian of the tone of voice
  • • Recruitment of the best talent and developing new team structures as required
  • • Leader of our content teams, providing inspiration, managing and nurturing talent and ensuring development plans are in place

  ATTRIBUTES:

  Energetic, proactive, leader, confident presenter, strategic thinker, social channel expert, content expert, good understanding of paid media planning, commercially minded, enjoys developing talent, organised, calm under pressure, authoritative, collaborative, an integrator, self-motivated, challenger, innovative, empathetic, team player, takes ownership, can-do attitude, does the detail where required, delegates effectively, focused on objectives, goal orientated, focused and can prioritise the priorities.

  Please send through all CVs to Kate McLeod kate.mcleod@cedarcom.co.uk with ‘Content Director’ in the email subject line. The closing date for applications is 5 July 2019.

• Account executive, Travel and luxury London

  JOB PURPOSE

  The Account Executive supports the Travel, Luxury and Internal Communications Account Management team at Cedar working across British Airways (BA), Iberia, Aer Lingus, Mandarin Oriental, Eurostar, Airbus, The Dorchester and Nikon. The role has a primary focus on the BA account supporting the Group Account Director (GAD) with the day-to-day running of all projects from a content and commercial perspective. 

  The Account Exec plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth running of the accounts, and liaises with internal departments and client stakeholders. The position is an entry-level account management role that will develop your understanding of all aspects of client, account and project management.

  PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

  KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • • To support the Group Account Director and Senior Account Manager in the running of all elements of the content and commercial account. This includes print, digital, social, video and eCRM.
  • •To develop a clear understanding of the clients’ business objectives, brand priorities, and be proactive and creative; adding value to their relationship with Cedar.
  • •Research clients' products, services, plans, competitors and target markets.
  • •Responding to clients' requests as they arise with a 24 hour SLA period.
  • •Overseeing the client briefing and approval process. Client liaison with key stakeholders; briefing the editorial and creative teams; and trafficking pages/content for sign off.
  • •Maintain processes and systems that ensure the running of these account activities – including schedules, content calendars, and status reports.
  • •Attend weekly and monthly status meetings to ensure we remain up-to-date on all projects and opportunities.
  • •Attend client meetings to represent Cedar and provide updates to the wider team.
  • •Ensure the team members at Cedar produce high quality content on time, and within budget to client guidelines and briefs.
  • •Organise internal meetings to work with design, editorial, strategy and insight teams to meet client needs.
  • •Organise and attend key meetings throughout the year with clients (NB. Please note travel is required as clients are based globally, the BA account requires regular all day attendance at its head office near London Heathrow).
  • •Produce contact reports after all client meetings and circulate to all attendees.
  • •Attend photo and video shoots as required.
  • •Book freelance team members as required.
  • •Manage holiday calendars to ensure resource is available.
  • •Cover for travel core team when on annual leave.
  • •Manage budgets and invoices.

  COMMERICAL

  • •Support the management and coordination of internal budgets.
  • •Working with BA Media team to effectively deliver advertising from 3^rd parties and develop commercial opportunities with BA. 

  REQUIRED SKILLS

  • •Knowledge of the content marketing agency sector
  • •Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills in English
  • •Strong attention to detail
  • •Good personal skills: ability to listen, understand, motivate and push back on internal and client teams
  • •A can do, ‘I’m on it’ attitude
  • •Enthusiasm for the account and travel industry

  Please send through all CVs to Katherine Knight (Katherine.knight@cedarcom.co.uk) and/or Cath Greenslade (Cath.Greenslade@cedarcom.co.uk) with ‘Account executive’ in the email subject line. The closing date for applications is 30 June 2019.

• Managing editor, Badges magazine Hong Kong

  Cedar Hong Kong is looking for a Managing Editor to work on Badges, the Members magazine of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The publication covers a wide range of areas relating to the Hong Kong Jockey Club, from racing to charities and lifestyle.

  The candidate will be responsible for managing the editorial process to ensure timely and accurate content creation for a monthly magazine and marketing collaterals. The role requires exceptional organisational skills, working with Cedar’s editorial and account management teams to set timetables and priorities, understanding briefs and ensuring their execution, and managing the layout amends process for Badges.

  Ability to read and speak Chinese and English is required.

  Please contact Mark Tjhung at mark.tjhung@cedarcom.hk with a CV and salary expectation for full job description.

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: Cath.Greenslade@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.