Charles & Dean is looking for a creative and capable Content Executive to join our growing marketing team.
This is a hands-on role with a particular focus on email marketing, organic social media and graphic design, alongside delivering wider content and campaign activity across the business.
You’ll work from clear briefs to create high-quality, engaging content across multiple channels, taking work from initial brief through to publication and ensuring it is accurate, on-brand and delivered to deadline.
We’re looking for someone with solid experience working within a professional marketing environment who is comfortable producing content themselves and can demonstrate the quality of their previous work.
Role Priorities
The role will initially focus on:
- Creating high-quality content across email, social media and wider marketing campaigns.
- Supporting the delivery of regular email campaigns and customer communications.
- Producing engaging and consistent organic social content.
- Creating branded graphics and creative assets across digital and offline channels.
- Supporting customer stories, case studies and wider content activity.
- Maintaining a consistently high standard of copy, design and brand presentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, build, test and schedule email marketing campaigns.
- Write engaging copy for email, social media, blogs and wider campaign activity.
- Create branded graphics and marketing assets using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar.
- Create and publish organic social media content across Charles & Dean’s channels.
- Produce content and creative assets from supplied marketing briefs.
- Support the creation of customer case studies, testimonials and campaign content.
- Adapt content and creative for different channels and audiences.
- Coordinate with colleagues across the business to obtain information, imagery and supporting content.
- Proofread and quality-check content before publication.
- Maintain consistency with Charles & Dean’s brand guidelines.
- Support wider marketing activity and campaigns where required.
- Ensure marketing communications meet relevant FCA, GDPR and financial promotion requirements.
Measures of Success
Success will primarily be measured through:
- Quality and consistency of content produced.
- Delivery of agreed content and marketing activity to deadline.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Quality of email, social and creative output.
- Engagement with email and organic social content.
- Consistent application of the Charles & Dean brand.
- Contribution to the successful delivery of wider marketing campaigns.
About You
You’ll be a creative, organised and capable marketer who enjoys producing content and seeing your work go live.
You’ll have hands-on experience within an in-house marketing team or agency environment, with demonstrable experience producing content across email marketing, organic social media and graphic design.
You will have:
- A minimum of two years’ relevant marketing experience within an in-house marketing team or marketing agency.
- Demonstrable examples of email, social and design work you have personally produced.
- Hands-on experience creating and delivering email marketing campaigns.
- Experience creating content for organic social media.
- Confidence producing high-quality branded graphics using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar.
- Strong copywriting and proofreading skills.
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong organisation and time-management skills.
- The ability to interpret a brief and turn it into polished marketing content.
- Confidence working collaboratively with colleagues, customers and external stakeholders.
- A creative mindset and strong eye for effective content.
Experience within financial services, automotive or another regulated industry would be beneficial but is not essential.
Marketing Skills & Tools
You will have practical experience across:
- Email marketing — creating, building, testing and scheduling email campaigns and customer communications.
- Organic social media — creating platform-appropriate copy, graphics and content.
- Graphic design — producing high-quality branded marketing assets using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar.
- Copywriting — writing clear, engaging and accurate marketing copy across different channels.
- Content creation — producing campaign assets, customer stories, case studies and supporting marketing materials.
- Email platforms — experience using HubSpot, Mailchimp or another email marketing platform.
- Brand consistency — applying established brand guidelines across different formats and channels.
- AI tools — confidently using AI tools to support content creation, ideation and day-to-day efficiency.
Experience with basic video editing, short-form video creation or CMS platforms would be advantageous but is not essential.
Role Positioning
The Content Executive is a hands-on role within Charles & Dean’s in-house marketing team, supporting the creation and delivery of content across a broad range of marketing activity.
The role is suited to a capable and confident marketing all-rounder who can work independently from a clear brief, manage their own workload and take responsibility for delivering high-quality work across email, social and design.
You’ll be joining a growing and ambitious business, so we’re looking for someone who is proactive, comfortable working at pace and confident in taking ownership of their day-to-day work.
Benefits:
- Private Healthcare through Vitality
- 1 x Wellness Day per Quarter
- Access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Access to Octopus Money Financial Advice
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Company Pension
- Referral Programme
- Company Events
- Free Parking
- 22 days Annual Leave, plus Birthday Day Off
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
