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Company Description

Jungle Creations is an award-winning social media-first publisher that exists to create ideas that get people to thrive online and in the real world. With offices in London and New York, the company owns and operates a number of hugely popular media brands. They each create and publish content across a number of different passion points, from food to women's interests and fitness, and they include; VT, Twisted, Four Nine, Craft Factory, Level Fitness, Futur3ology and Lovimals, which together have amassed over 125 million followers worldwide.

Jungle Creations works with clients including the likes of Diageo, McDonald's and Unilever, to help them reach its audiences through impactful and engaging branded content which has seen the company win The Drum's sought after 'Branded Content Team Of The Year' for the last four years in a row. Today the business has branched out into many offline ventures including Twisted: A Cookbook, delivery only restaurant business; Twisted London, and a Twisted IPA in collaboration with Brewgooder. Jungle Creations is also home to The Wild, an award-winning social media-first creative agency that helps brands turn heads and make it matter, specialising in social media management, multi-platform creative campaigns, branded content, production, influencer, and performance marketing.

Position

Want to have your cooking seen by millions around the world? The UK’s biggest food content creator, Twisted, is hiring a senior food producer, creative and chef to drive the food program forward and to help shape the future of the brand. If you have a unique voice, love food video, creative cooking and the prospect of a 9-5, this is the perfect position for you.

At Twisted, we create, produce and publish food & drink content that is seen by upwards of 400m people each month. As a result, we have a highly engaged and dedicated audience of over 35 million people that follow us across our active social media platforms. We have worked with some of the biggest brands in the world - Heinz, Frank’s RedHot, Baileys, Snickers, Oreo to name a few. We also write cookbooks, run restaurants, create bespoke food & drink products for retail, launch meal kits, create merchandise, partake in restaurant collabs, create some of the most highly engaged food programming going, run pop-up bars and other live food & drink events and other bits and bobs.

All our food producers, guided by the Twisted food program, must demonstrate a strong aptitude for cooking food from around the world to the highest standard, ensuring that all recipes are researched, tested and developed to ensure they are camera-ready. All food producers take full-stack responsibility and ownership for their recipes and are credited accordingly via their social handles (where applicable). It’s also important to note that we expect all producers to demonstrate a firm understanding of what makes their food and cooking unique - all good cooks have individual passion points and we celebrate that here at Twisted.

Working alongside a talented team of videographers, editors and producers, Twisted food producers must co-create or self-shoot videos which function as premium, marketable products for the Twisted brand, both commercially and editorially.

As a member of the Twisted on-screen talent team, producers will be expected to develop in their role to be comfortable presenting (and cooking) on a multitude of Twisted video formats that live across Twisted’s numerous content platforms. All Twisted producers are ambassadors for the Twisted brand and must live and breathe our ethos!

Requirements

Essential:

• Extensive on-screen cooking or live cooking demo experience
• Extensive professional cooking experience and/or food content creation experience
• Proven experience researching, writing or developing recipes
• Ability to develop and enact creative culinary programming ideas
• Ability to thrive in a creative, close-knit team
• Devoted interest in and a deep understanding of cookery writing, online food media and the wider food industry
• Practical management experience

Desired::

• Experience developing/storyboarding content formats for social
• Copywriting experience
• Creative experience
• Food-related branded content experience

Other information

What's in it for you?

Our competitive salary package includes a bonus scheme, flexible/hybrid working, family-friendly benefits, 25 days of holiday per year (excl. national holidays), health and wellbeing initiatives, ERGS and committees, social events, a fully stocked kitchen plus much more!

We want you to add to our culture

At Jungle Creations, we aim to ensure our workforce reflects the diverse society we live in. We want everyone to feel that Jungle Creations is a place where they belong and that is the reason why we look for the cultural add, not the cultural fit.

Post Covid-19 Plan

We have moved to a permanent hybrid working system that sees staff split their time between the office and home (government guidelines allowing). Each team differs in terms of their in-office expectations so feel free to discuss this during your interview process. All our food producers, guided by the Twisted food program, must demonstrate a strong aptitude for cooking food from around the world to the highest standard, ensuring that all recipes are researched, tested and developed to ensure they are camera-ready. All food producers take full-stack responsibility and ownership for their recipes and are credited accordingly via their social handles (where applicable). It’s also important to note that we expect all producers to demonstrate a firm understanding of what makes their food and cooking unique - all good cooks have individual passion points and we celebrate that here at Twisted.

Working alongside a talented team of videographers, editors and producers, Twisted food producers must co-create or self-shoot videos which function as premium, marketable products for the Twisted brand, both commercially and editorially.

As a member of the Twisted on-screen talent team, producers will be expected to develop in their role to be comfortable presenting (and cooking) on a multitude of Twisted video formats that live across Twisted’s numerous content platforms. All Twisted producers are ambassadors for the Twisted brand and must live and breathe our ethos!

Key Responsibilities:

Video / Recipe Production:

• Recipe development, fully researched, completed and recorded for a multitude of video or written formats, both editorially and commercially
• Onscreen presenting / cooking
• Ongoing consideration and evolution of food strategy, working alongside other senior members of the team and Creative Director
• Proposal and management of serialised recipe content and show concepts, encouraging the wider team to maintain consistent contributions
• Full creative ownership of recipes produced, measured against KPIs
• Running Weekly Food Meetings to recorded agendas
• Coordination of all editorial and commercial recipe concepts and documentation cross-platform, including website
• Management of food studio(s) alongside other senior members of food team staff and videography staff

Creative Development

• Conceptual development of proactive ideas
• Proposal of serialised recipe content and show concepts.
• Contributing to prompt and thorough responses to any UK/US commercial food briefs, liaising with the Account Management department where necessary

Strategy

• Contribution to proposal, innovation and development of wider Twisted brand and its subsequent media platforms, ongoing projects and offline endeavours.
• Ongoing consideration of food & brand strategy alongside other senior members of the team and Twisted’s Creative Director

Other

Mentoring junior members of the team and assisting with their development

Essential experience required:

• Extensive on-screen cooking or live cooking demo experience
• Extensive professional cooking experience and/or food content creation experience
• Proven experience researching, writing or developing recipes
• Ability to develop and enact creative culinary programming ideas
• Ability to thrive in a creative, close-knit team
• Devoted interest in and a deep understanding of cookery writing, online food media and the wider food industry
• Practical management experience

Desired experience:

• Experience developing/storyboarding content formats for social
• Copywriting experience
• Creative experience
• Food-related branded content experience

Expectations:

Skills

• Content analysis
• Time management and prioritisation
• Communication
• Creative thinking

Competencies (Behaviours)

• Attention to Detail;
• Relationship building;
• Collaboration;
• Innovation;
• Resilience, Adaptability, Flexibility, Dynamism;
• Sharing (learning, knowledge, ideas);
• Accountability and ownership

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London, E1 1RH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Cooking: 5 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, E1 1RH

Reference ID: 0123