Freelance TikTok Content & Growth Creator
Colchester, Essex – regular on-site work required
1–2 days per week initially
£150–£200 per day depending on experience
Sweet Hamper Company
We're looking for someone who really understands TikTok to help us build and grow the Sweet Hamper Company TikTok channel.
We're an established online sweet gifting business selling sweet hampers, pick & mix and gifts across the UK.
We already have the products, warehouse, customers and plenty happening behind the scenes.
Now we want to turn it into a TikTok channel people actually want to follow.
We're looking for someone who can come in and help us develop the channel from the ground up — from deciding what we should be creating and how the account should feel, through to filming, appearing in content, editing, posting and growing the account.
What we need you to help with
You'll take a hands-on role in our TikTok growth, including:
- Helping us develop our overall TikTok strategy
- Setting up and optimising the channel
- Creating a content plan and regular posting schedule
- Coming up with TikTok ideas, hooks, trends and recurring series
- Filming regularly from our Colchester warehouse
- Editing and posting approximately 5–7 TikToks per week
- Being comfortable appearing in videos yourself
- Creating packing videos, challenges, product content and behind-the-scenes videos
- Responding to comments and creating video replies
- Keeping on top of TikTok trends and adapting them for our brand
- Reviewing analytics to understand what's working
- Testing different styles and formats
- Helping us grow followers, reach and ultimately sales through TikTok
- Helping us explore and grow TikTok Live, including presenting/appearing on live streams, testing different formats and identifying opportunities to use Live to drive engagement and sales
We'd also like successful content repurposed across Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts where appropriate.
We're looking for someone who's TikTok-native
This is really important.
We're not looking for a traditional social media manager who happens to know how to schedule a TikTok post.
We want someone who genuinely understands the platform.
You probably spend a lot of time on TikTok yourself. You understand why someone stops scrolling, what makes a good hook, how TikTok humour works, what trends are taking off and why some seemingly simple videos get millions of views.
You should be:
- Very comfortable using TikTok
- Comfortable appearing on camera and ideally confident hosting or participating in TikTok Lives
- Creative and full of ideas
- Comfortable filming with a phone/camera
- Able to edit engaging short-form videos
- Familiar with TikTok analytics
- Comfortable experimenting and testing ideas
- Able to work independently
- Happy working regularly from our Colchester warehouse
You don't need a huge CV or years of agency experience.
If you're brilliant at TikTok and have grown your own account or created videos that regularly get strong engagement, we'd still love to hear from you.
Likewise, if you're an experienced content creator who has helped businesses grow through TikTok, we'd love to hear from you too.
There's a LOT of content to work with
Particularly as we head towards Christmas.
You'll have access to:
Thousands of sweets
Daily customer orders
Sweet hampers and gifts
Behind-the-scenes warehouse content
Christmas order madness
New products and launches
Huge customer and corporate orders
Packing and satisfying content
We want someone who can look at all of that and think:
"There's a TikTok in this."
The role
We're initially looking for someone on a freelance basis for 1–2 days per week.
We'd like to start with an initial 4-month period in the run up to Christmas and see what we can achieve together.
If TikTok becomes the channel we believe it can be, there's plenty of potential for the role to grow.
How to apply
Please don't send us a huge generic cover letter.
Instead, send:
- A little bit about yourself
- Your TikTok/Instagram account
- Examples of TikToks or Reels you've created
- Any accounts you've helped grow
- Your day rate
- Your availability
- 3 TikTok ideas you'd create for Sweet Hamper Company
And tell us:
If you took over our TikTok tomorrow, what would you do in your first 30 days?
We're much more interested in your creativity, personality and understanding of TikTok than having the perfect CV.
Pay: £120.00-£200.00 per day
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Application question(s):
- Have you personally created content for and grown a TikTok account?
- Please share a link to a TikTok account you have created content for or helped grow, and briefly explain your involvement.
- Are you comfortable appearing on camera and presenting on TikTok Live?
- This role requires regular filming at our Colchester location. Are you able to travel to Colchester 1–2 days per week?
Work Location: In person
