Job Title: Content Executive
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (09:00-17:00)
Salary: £22,000 - £28,000 and up to 20% bonus and benefits
Location: hybrid working from our Blackpool office FY4 2FB
Travel: Access to a vehicle would be beneficial as role will involve extensive travel, supporting the Financial education programme of events: Areas include (not exhausted list) North West region, including Blackpool, Preston, Lancaster etc. The marketing team is based in London, so occasional travel to other Tandem offices will be expected.
About Tandem
We’re Tandem. The UK’s fairer, greener, digital bank providing hard working people across the UK with greener ways to spend, borrow and save. With more than 500 people in London, Blackpool, Cardiff, Durham and Manchester, all working together to create a fairer, greener, more accessible bank for people across the UK.
We’re on a mission to proactively help our customers to reduce their carbon footprint and accelerate the UK to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and we need more people to help us achieve this goal.
We've taken the beliefs, behaviours, and personality and created four underpinning values. These values demonstrate our guiding principles and behaviours for everyone at Tandem. Our ambition is that these values are ingrained and always front of mind when we're engaging with our stakeholder audiences. Our values are BRAVE, ENTERPRISING, SIMPLE and TOGETHER.
About Loop
Most recently, Tandem acquired Loop, UK’s latest Fintech money sharing business. The addition of Loop to the bank’s award-winning digital offer, gives customers a unique way to borrow and lend from each other, while supporting the transition to a low carbon economy.
Loop started its money sharing revolution back in February 2022, and since then, thousands of customers like yourselves, have been using it to share money with friends and family. Today, as we become part of Tandem, we’re excited for the future, and the ability to offer you new and easier ways to share money.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Content Executive to help build Tandem & Loop community across social channels & web with a specific focus of on our Financial Education programme. We see Content Marketing as the key business focus for us, as we are aiming to educate the next generation of consumers to be better financially knowledgeable to set them on a path of finance stability.
Our Team
Led by our Digital Marketing Director, the Marketing team is at the core of our Tandem business. The team is responsible for everything customer facing across the Tandem and Loop business. It’s about ensuring the brand & what it stands for, its product and services are represented in the right way to drive curiosity, excitement, engagement, and adoption. Our aim is to engage with and, ultimately, help power the potential of our customers, people, partners and investors.
Primary areas of focus will include:
- Working alongside the Financial Education Lead, to gather content opportunities to promote Financial Education across our digital channels.
- Produce content (Photography, video, design) that is exciting, educational, fun and engaging.
- Develop ideas on how to continually improve and optimise content so it drives the biggest engagement.
- Be a content creator yourself – actively using oneself to help elevate the Tandem Fin Education programme and the Loop, money sharing messages.
- Report on core engagement and growth KPI’s
- Be on the road with the Financial Education team – supporting the delivery of programmes through the creation of marketing assets and collateral as needed.
- Work with partners / schools to ensure right forms are completed/approved for content filming and use. This include working with internal departments such as compliance.
Responsibilities
- Working very closely with the Fin Education team to plan content requirements.
- Create content using a variety of media including videos/ photography stills, digital creatives to support the Financial Education programme & Loop app.
- Write long form and short form copy for social and web posts supporting the different Fin educational programme.
- Manage a calendar of content events.
- Publishing and reporting on content.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about content marketing and social media and will have 1-2 years’ experience in a similar role. You will bring an abundance of feasible ideas that you will help create and direct to deliver exciting and engaging creative for each of our channels.
Candidate Requirements
- Experience working in social media/content management role
- Social Media Guru (you know the trends before it even started!)
- Actively engaged in social channels themselves – not scared to be part of the Tandem & Loop social channels themselves!
- Excellent copywriting, editing and proofreading skills
- Excellent design skills. Used to working with design tools like Canva. (& Ideally Adobe, Figma, Illustrator etc)
- Proficiency in MS Office, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Working knowledge of content management systems and automated marketing software; set up and content of social media channels
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Creative and Analytical Thinking
- Team Player with a can-do, supportive and nice attitude
Benefits
Our rewards are getting a big update, with enhancements due to land throughout 2023.
Current Rewards
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holiday
- 1 day off for your birthday
- Electric Vehicle scheme
- Free cereal and snacks in the office
- Cycle to work scheme and a free helmet
- Perkbox for treats and discounts
- Pension contribution
- 2 days per year paid volunteering
Take part in our Green Deal
- Volunteer 2 days a week for charity > receive an early Friday finish
- Raise £200 per annum for charity > Tandem provide PR and marketing support
- Have renewable energy at home > receive an additional 1-day annual leave
- Drive a lower emissions or hybrid car > free raffle entries with the chance to win a weekend away for 2
- Drive an electric car > receive £500 towards a home charger
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at Tandem works primarily on a direct sourcing model and does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list. We are not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company. You can find our Applicant Privacy Policy on our Careers page.
Tandem is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Equality Act (2010). We respect the diverse experience and talents that every individual brings to our Company, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Please be aware that background checking (including credit and criminal records checks) form part of our recruitment process. We will adhere to our duties under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.