Content Marketing Director

Salt is working with a market leading oil derivatives trading house that have become an authority on oil price & flows since launching! They have multiple different arms of the business that provide everything from technology to consultancy with an aim to scale the commodity derivatives space.

They have an organically grown content strategy, based around a weekly Content that they are looking to upscale this and improve the professionalism and strategy around what they are doing to enhance themselves as a business.

In order to do this, it means supporting the service offerings in a more targeted approach, but also managing input from external PR team. With a new website set to launch in the coming weeks that need backing with content, you will strategise and maximise these posts and the mandate for this will continue to grow as they gain more traffic.

Your goal is to scale and professionalise their processes and their Content.

You will manage the production team and liaise with the output team to create content. They want to work with an iterative mindset, in that this person can agree a target set of conditions that they want to achieve, break down how they get there and step by step work through experiments to get there. For this reason, this person must prioritise feedback from viewers!

Requirements:

• 8+ years’ experience in Content Strategy in a Head of/Director level role.
• Knowledge within the financial oil market is not essential, but a natural curiosity is preferable.
• Experience in a similar role is essential for this!
• Solid experience leading a large team / department, measuring goals, setting clear & concise measurable targets & strategy to meet goals.
• You need to be resilient in the sense that you can take a highly agile working philosophy and work with it.
• Have a strong sense of perception when dealing with obstacles, in other words enjoying the process of turning obstacles into challenges to be overcome, which inspire the team around you.