Beehive In-house Agency: Junior Copywriter

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Salary Range
£28,329 - £29,820
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
Be part of our growing in-house creative agency, where you can help bring our brands to life for our 30 million customers
Job Description
Job title: Beehive In-house Agency – Junior Copywriter
Location(s): Bristol, Halifax or Edinburgh
Hours: 12-month secondment / maternity cover
Working pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least
two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
Beehive, our in-house creative agency sits within Brands Marketing and Experience, which is part of the Consumer Relationship division. We opened our doors in 2021, and we’re now a 47 strong team of passionate designers, artworkers, copywriters and account & traffic managers.
We work in partnership with communication teams across Brands, Marketing & Experience – working together to get every brief right first time, whether it’s copywriting that makes the complex simple, a personalised one-to-one campaign that drives action or in-branch material that is perfect for the time and place.

You’ll help us by…

• Producing audience-targeted copy in-line with marketing briefs across our brands for a range of channels including email, internet banking, direct mail, social and digital display.
• Applying the relevant tone of voice to branded communications and maintaining creative excellence in everything we produce.
• Taking ownership of the copy aspect of creative projects from start to finish.
• Thinking conceptually to solve communications problems.
• Working with designers and artworkers to bring simple, tactical direct response communication ideas to life.
• Ensuring direct response best practice and brand guidelines are adhered to.
• Working across a number of product areas and campaigns delivering high quality copy.
• Writing copy that embodies the principles of Consumer Duty. Simple, empathetic communication that is clear, accessible and inclusive.
• Presenting creative work to our communications teams.

What you’ll need

• At least 2 years’ experience in a copywriting role.
• A genuine passion and all-round love for the written word!
• A desire to learn and hone your craft.
• Foundational understanding of financial services copy and understand what is required to write copy in a highly regulated environment.
• The ability to work as a team with other copywriters and designers.
• An attention to detail that upholds our high copy standards.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, accurately estimating time and able to work to those timescales.
• As comfortable with a short headline as you are writing for longer copy formats.
• Ability to identify challenges and work collaboratively to resolve them

About working for us
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh
possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive
Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference

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