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Professional Beauty Magazine, Content Writer

Employer
Trades Exhibitions Ltd
Location
Wimbledon, London
Salary
DoE
Closing date
23 Oct 2019

Job Details

Professional Beauty Group is looking for a talented and experienced Content Writer to join its successful B2B portfolio, which includes the market-leading magazines and websites Professional Beauty, Hairdressers Journal and Aesthetic Medicine.

The role is focused on our Professional Beauty title, and the successful applicant will be writing and creating content for all channels across print and online, as well as creating ‘live’ content for our exhibitions, awards and conferences.

You will need to build strong relationships with industry at all levels, attend events and ensure the independent, credible ethos of our editorial content is maintained.

Key activities:

  • Content – deliver content to ensure we are meeting the needs of the market across print and online
  • Editing – commissioning, proofreading and editing content to ensure accuracy and consistency of tone
  • Editorial integrity – ensure our print and digital offering retains the independent, authoritative and credible content it is known for and collaborate with the team to constantly challenge and improve
  • Analysis – reviewing web and social statistics and adapting content and SEO activities to ensure content is relevant
  • Market integration – build relationships and gain the confidence of key contacts across the sector to secure exclusive content and be first to market
  • Events – use market knowledge and contacts to secure relevant speakers and deliver compelling content that grows the participation in, and audiences at, our face-to-face events (seminars, conferences, etc)
  • Commercial partnerships – work with the wider editorial and sales team to offer solutions to meet the needs of our key accounts.


Key skills required:

  • Excellent written and spoken English
  • Experience producing clean, concise and accurate content including both long- and short-form features and news
  • Experience of CMS, SEO and statistical analysis of online content
  • News sense – the eye to spot a good exclusive and the confidence and tenacity to make sure you are first to cover it
  • Organisational skills and ability to meet tight deadlines across multiple titles
  • Strong social skills and ability to build relationships
  • Industry knowledge is preferable but not a prerequisite
  • Understanding of business and finance is a plus
  • Numeracy and an ability to analyse statistics
  • Competency using software programmes including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe Indesign
  • Flexibility to attend numerous industry events, including some evenings and weekends.


To apply, please send a CV, a covering letter explaining why you are the perfect fit for the role, and at least two relevant examples of your writing, by completing the application form below.

Company

Trades Exhibitions Ltd organises the Professional Beauty shows – the leading health and beauty events in the UK, Ireland, India and South Africa, as well as publishing the UK's leading magazine for the professional beauty, nails and spa industries: Professional Beauty magazine.

Trades Exhibitions also provides Professional Beauty Direct, extensive beauty insurance cover for the industry professional, as well as organising the prestigious European Spa Convention and Professional Beauty Awards.

Launched in 1988, Professional Beauty steered its growth to become the UK’s third highest attended trade exhibition in any industry sector.

The UK Professional Beauty brand, including the exhibitions and magazines, was then sold to Emap in 2006 but was reacquired by its original owners, Trades Exhibitions, in 2010.

Trades Exhibitions has teamed up with many organisations within the beauty industry in an effort to combine all aspects of the industry under one umbrella to inform, educate and promote the professional beauty industry.

Company info
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Location
1.17 The Plaza
535 Kings Road
London
SW10 0SZ
GB

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