We are a financial services business focused on the retail savings, commercial lending and specialist residential mortgage markets. With over 1,000 reviews we are ranked third place within a group of banks, rated as 4.7 out of 5. This puts us in the category of being an excellent service provider.
- Competitive Salary
- Based in Cardiff City Centre operating in a Hybrid workspace.
- Permanent
- Full Time
- 28 days Holiday with the option to buy more.
- Subsidised Gym Membership.
- Private Medical & Health Insurance
- Extensive learning and development programme
- Generous, personalised benefits package
- Enhanced parental leave
- Company pension contribution up to 15%
- Flexible working options
- Opportunities to get involved in our charity and community work
The Hodge Foundation, a charity supporting the welfare, medical, academic, and educational areas own 79% of our business. This drives us, knowing that by helping our customers to achieve their goals, we are also helping good causes that are important to us.
We give back to our local and wider communities through various forms of fundraising and support, and we encourage our people to do the same. Our employees get to take four days off work to do something for good causes with our ‘Four to do More’ initiative.
These are some of the many charities, we are currently working with
We have achieved significant growth over the last few years and have ambitious plans to expand further.
We have an exciting opportunity working as part of the Marketing team within the Customer function to champion the Hodge brand across all touchpoints. The successful candidate will be working within a team of eight reporting to the Content Marketing Manager.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Working closely with the content marketing manager and website product owner to deliver against the web content strategy in alignment with the company’s wider goals
- Create regular engaging content incorporating brand messages across the full range of media placements
- Repurpose PR campaigns to maximise the return on creative work and research produced to support the wider marketing strategy and plan
- Deliver consistency of tone of voice across all touchpoints, becoming a passionate brand custodian in the process
- Craft quality content that engages audiences across the group’s markets and audiences
- Support SEO through writing entertaining and informing optimized copy
- Be both proactive and reactive in the pursuit of creative and valuable solutions
- Support the digital transformation roadmap by providing onsite copy and messaging as part of enhanced customer functionality
- Repurposing content for different mediums including social media and video
- Keeping up to date with industry best practice and monitoring content activities of competitor websites
- Conduct regular content reviews of all group sites to maintain relevance and accuracy
- Develop and maintain good knowledge of all company policies and procedures and wider legislative/regulatory requirements, as advised by line management and within the Group Compliance Manual. Including but not exhaustively; Conduct Rules, Data Protection, Money Laundering, etc
- Develop and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of Compliance & Risk regulatory and legislative information related to Group products and services (e.g. PRA/FCA rules, Data Protection, Money Laundering, etc.), as advised by line management
- Support the risk culture of the organisation by taking personal responsibility for identifying and managing risks in everything you do
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks as requested by management
- Develop and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of Compliance & Risk regulatory and legislative information related to Group products and services (e.g. PRA/FCA rules, Data Protection, Money Laundering, etc.), as advised by line management
- Support the risk culture of the organisation by taking personal responsibility for identifying and managing risks in everything you do.
Candidates must have:
- Educated to degree level, preferably Journalism or English
- 1-2+ years’ experience in a content creation role
- Writing for a range of audiences with different needs and motivations
- Digital and offline copywriting experience
Desirable
Interested?
Please send your CV and a one page covering letter, shortlisted candidates will then be invited to attend an interview.
Please send your application using the ‘Apply Now’ Button by 7th April 2022.
Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.
ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.
