
Senior Content Marketing Executive
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You'll take ownership of our thought leadership content - developing a deep understanding of the automotive and used car market and using your journalistic instincts to spot stories, surface insights, and turn complex data into compelling narratives. Working closely with MI, Insight, and Customer Experience teams, you'll develop and deliver The Edge insights, ensuring our content cuts through with clarity and authority.
- You'll bring our brand tone of voice to life - from long-form editorial to sharp social copy, you'll commission, edit, and create original content that captures our personality and powers our digital and social campaigns, driving growth, engagement, and customer acquisition.
- You'll drive and evolve our content strategy across channels - refining our content mix, expanding into new formats, and setting high editorial standards. You'll work with the wider team to ensure every article, post, or video delivers maximum impact and aligns with our strategic goals.
- You'll be capable of running integrated campaigns when required - working with stakeholders to shape briefs, manage timelines, and oversee delivery of content and assets (including video and digital) that bring our products and services to life and drive engagement from customers and prospects.
- You'll support divisional and product goals - collaborating across the business to create content that underpins Defleet Product objectives and drives digital acquisition in target groups. You'll make sure our storytelling always ladders back to business priorities.
- You'll play a part in our events and networking activity - supporting colleagues to shape strategy, define goals and metrics, and help ensure outcomes are delivered and measured effectively.
- You'll champion innovation in content creation - leading the adoption of AI-driven tools, including the development and roll-out of the mfldirect brand GPT, ensuring it helps us deliver high volumes of consistent, on-brand content efficiently.
- You'll have extensive B2B marketing and content experience - with a proven track record in campaign creation and delivery, translating brand values into powerful stories, managing BAU activity, and testing new ideas and approaches that grow a brand's footprint in the market.
- You're a natural storyteller who really enjoys writing and creating content audiences love. You have a creative eye for all things copy and you can turn concepts and data into compelling activations, using a wide range of storytelling mediums to drive results.
- You are a strategic creative thinker, who delights in coming up with concepts and campaigns that deliver on KPI. You are all about the big picture, but you really care about the minute details too and are happy to take a hands-on approach to delivering our multiple fast-moving projects with ease.
- You're commercially focussed, never losing sight of our purpose and goals and ensuring our content the plans that have been laid out to achieve our financial targets get completed.
- Curiosity and collaboration - resourceful and solutions-driven, you use initiative to overcome obstacles and enjoy working across teams to deliver the best possible outcome.
- You've exceptional stakeholder and relationship management skills and are a true team player that loves building relationships and driving collaboration to produce best-in-class work.
- You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, making decisions and acting on your own initiative, adapting to change and new challenges as needed.
- You are highly organised - able to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and projects while maintaining high standards.
- Demonstrable experience in content marketing with excellent writing and storytelling skills
- Background in copywriting or journalism, with strong editorial judgement
- Experience in using AI tools for content creation.
- We find solutions
- We drive change
- We care
- An annual discretionary bonus
- 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
- Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
- Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
- Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)
- 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
- Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
- Critical illness insurance
- Free access to healthcare apps, such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
- Funded health screening for over 50s
- 1 day per year to volunteer - Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
- Access to our fully accessible company allotment - Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
- Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office
- Dental Insurance
- Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner
- Discounted gym memberships
- Charitable giving