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This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of talented, friendly, and diverse people driven by common values, and a genuine desire to make a positive difference in the world of business.

.Reporting into the Head of Business Development, as Content Marketing Executive you will be responsible for supporting the digital, marketing and new business activity at Black Sun. This exciting new role requires close working with the digital, news business and marketing teams to help deliver impactful, cohesive and engaging content campaigns. You will be creating content across the website, social media, blog posts etc. You will gain exposure from supporting our activities across the new business and marketing mix from updating the website and managing the production of our e-news, through to content production for our social channels.

We see this role as the start of a successful career, not just a job. Attracting and retaining the right people for our team is an absolute priority for us and we take their career development seriously from day one. You will have access to a full programme of training and plenty of autonomy to develop new skills and contribute ideas. We take every aspect of the work we deliver for clients seriously and we work to maintain the highest possible standards in everything we do for them and for the firm. But as well as being passionate about our work, we are supportive, collaborative and positive, always looking to make what we do enjoyable and rewarding.

By joining us you will be working on a hybrid model and have a wonderful opportunity to explore our picturesque offices in Bishops Park, Putney Bridge

Come join us!

Black Sun Global

Across the globe, there is a powerful movement demanding that business focus on purpose, sustainability, and wider value creation. It has never been more important for organisations to build and maintain trust with their key audiences. And that’s where Black Sun come in – we are a partner to some of the biggest brands and businesses worldwide – helping them to build enduring relationships with their stakeholders and spark positive change through better engagement and inspiring communications.

As our world rapidly changes, our focus remains constant. At heart we are storytellers, we define articulate and shape the value creation story, bringing it to life across different channels and communications formats. Our team is made up of over 150 talented specialists working across the UK, Europe, South Africa and Asia – analytical thinkers, renaissance creatives, digital mavericks and inspiring change makers!

For more than twenty years, we have won many awards and recognition for our work – but great work doesn’t happen by magic – join Black Sun and you will become part of an amazing, diverse, and inclusive community – a team of passionate and skilful people who will expand your horizon, energise your talents and ignite that spark of magic within you.

Beyond what you would expect; a competitive salary, great benefits and hybrid working – we will support you in developing the skills and expertise to fast track your career. You will have the opportunity to make a difference every day, shaping the future of communications and creating positive change – and most importantly, to have fun along the way.

The Positive Change Group

Black Sun is the founding agency at the centre of The Positive Change Group. The Positive Change Group is a truly international stakeholder advisory and engagement collective of like-minded specialist agencies with a shared ambition to help bold and visionary businesses Spark Positive Change – to make a deeper impact on society, shape more ethical practices, build inclusive communities and deliver more sustainable performance.

The Group currently consists of four pre-eminent agencies: Black Sun Global, People-Made, Stratton Craig and GoCo. Each agency brings together deep expertise on different aspects of stakeholder advisory and engagement – including brand culture, strategic communications, reporting, ESG advisory, analytics and creative storytelling. Current clients within the Group include major international firms, such as AstraZeneca, Burberry, Diageo, Meta, Olam, Virgin Atlantic and Vodafone.

With headquarters in London, Singapore, and offices worldwide, the group is transforming the way companies engage with their customers, employees, investors, and communities worldwide. As business increasingly recognises that long-term success is dependent on the support and advocacy of their stakeholders – the Positive Change Group is helping their clients to inspire trust, build more positive relations and create sustainable value for the people that matter most to them.

Key Responsibilities

• Content production for case studies and new launches, and implementation across social channels
• Provide support in keeping the website up to date at all times with latest news, articles and case studies.
• Provide support in launching content across our social channels.
• Working with the digital team on to flow in website content for client projects.
• Maintain a content marketing calendar that schedules all aspects of the creation and delivery of content throughout the year across all platforms, including email, web, blog and social media.
• Support with producing our monthly newsletter and tracking content performance.
• Stay up to date with digital developments and generate new ideas to draw audience’s attention
• Track content performance using tools such as Google Analytics
• Compile content reports on a weekly/monthly basis, as per the business requirement
• Salesforce – tracking monthly business performance, lead sources, website registrations etc.
• Support with entering new contact data, maintaining client lists, pulling reports and campaign management.
• Alerting the team to new project launches, new leads.
• Support with managing events materials such as collateral, brochures, banners, ensuring that the right collateral is in place on the day.
• Support the marketing for our events such as updating our website, monitoring the inbox to ensure we have an up-to-date list of attendees, and managing pre and post event surveys.
• General support and event hosting on the day of the event
• Collate all the events stats from attendees to feedback into a simple summary presentation.
• Set up jobs and folders through which we manage our jobs.
• Ensure our e news lists are kept up to date with the latest contact information.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A proven track record in new business development in the agency world and delivering new business opportunities.
• Highly entrepreneurial self-starter, who can use their own initiative to identify opportunities.
• Excellent written skills are essential.
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications, experience & skills:

• Educated to degree level, preferably within a relevant field such as marketing, PR, Business.
• Ideally 1 + year of commercial experience
• Highly organised, excels in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Be fully conversant with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Databases (training will be given on Salesforce)

Personal Qualities

• Strong ‘can do’ attitude motivated by a desire to be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem
• Proactive, curious and with an innate ability to take initiative and work by yourself as well as in a team.
• Ambition to self-improve and excel..
• Ability to multitask and work effectively under pressure.
• Ability to blend commercial awareness with passion and creative flair.
• Energetic and keen to meet the challenges of contributing to a dynamic, highly entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to work closely with other departments and senior managers to achieve commercial and creative objectives.
• A great sense of humour and fun!!

Your reporting relationships

Reporting to:

Head of Business Development

Working closely with:

Marketing Planning Managers, the leaders of the company and client teams

Interview process

Initial chat with talent acquisition manager
1st Interview (teams) with hiring manager
2nd interview (f2f) with hiring director and hiring manager (and CEO tbc)

Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary based on skills and experience, as an employee at Black Sun, you will have access to a range of great benefits and perks, including:

25 days holiday per year with ‘bonus’ days for long service
Bonus scheme
Personal development opportunities
Group life assurance
Group personal pension plan
Employee assistance programme
Hybrid working
Employees will have the option to work remotely somewhere other than home for a maximum of 4 weeks per calendar year

Here at Black Sun, we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We foster a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best work and be relevant in a rapidly changing world