Senior Creative Manager

Jungle Creations Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in social media and content creation seeks a Senior Creative Manager to elevate their food brand. In this dynamic role, you'll produce captivating food videos, engage with audiences, and collaborate with talented teams to bring innovative ideas to life. If you have a passion for cooking and storytelling, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is your chance to make a significant impact in a vibrant company that values creativity and collaboration. Join a community that celebrates diverse perspectives and fosters a culture of belonging while working on exciting projects that reach millions.

Benefits

Free breakfast daily

Dog friendly office

Generous holiday allowance

Eye care

Wellbeing platform access

Family friendly policies

Regular social events

Recognition schemes

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 4+ years cooking experience, ideally in a professional kitchen or food styling.
• Deep understanding of food video creation from ideation to execution.

Responsibilities

• Produce a minimum of three engaging food videos weekly.
• Collaborate with teams to create branded content and respond to briefs.

Skills

Cooking experience

Recipe development

Video production

SEO writing

Time management

Relationship building

Adaptability

Creative ideation

Education

Food-related degree

Job description

Jungle Creations London, United Kingdom Content: Platforms

Company Description

About Jungle Creations

We are Jungle Creations, an award-winning social media agency and publisher. Since our creation in 2014, we have built a community of over 147 million followers on and beyond social. In 2019 we launched The Wild, our publisher-powered social agency, that helps brands unlock social through data and insights, so they can build communities and break into culture.

Jungle Media is the home of our portfolio of award-winning social media brands. We have pioneered some of the world's biggest communities; from Twisted on food and drink, to VT on entertainment, Four Nine on female lifestyle, Craft Factory on DIY and family and Lovimals, Level Fitness and Futurology on pets, fitness and tech. With over 147 million (and counting) followers across all major social platforms, our team of creators, content producers and social strategy specialists know how to create content that gets people watching, talking and reacting. Our brands reach millions of people every single day through our video content, websites, podcasts (and even restaurants).

The Wild is a publisher-powered social and influencer agency born out of Jungle Creations. We saw an opportunity to unlock data & insight from Jungle’s 140M+ global audiences and bring a decade of our social publisher expertise to brands. With a roster of international clients including Red Bull, PepsiCo and Disney, we drive brands to unlock social, build community, and break into culture - on and beyond social.

Position

Job title: Senior Creative Manager (Twisted)

Department/Brand: Media / Twisted

Reports to: Creative Lead / Creative Director

Duration: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Office Location: 6 Batty Street, London E1 1RH

All our food producers, while working to the Twisted brief, 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. It's also important to note that we expect all food producers to demonstrate a firm understanding of what makes their own food and cooking unique - all good cooks have individual passion points and we celebrate that here at Twisted.

Your main job will be producing amazing content for Twisted. On top of our standard recipe videos, you'll be coming up with ideas for editorial series, assisting with responses to commercial briefs and appearing in branded content. You'll be a diligent, creatively-minded individual with a sound understanding of what makes the food & drink audience tick on social (and traditional) media.

Requirements

What you will be doing as a Senior Creative

Creating a minimum of three videos a week. These will be a blend of always-on shortform recipe reels, branded content and mini series - rarely is one week the same! On top of this, you'll be having ideation meetings and keeping up to date with what is happening in the food world and making sure your finger is always on the pulse!

What you’ll bring to Jungle

• 4 years plus cooking experience, either through professional kitchen or food styling work, a similar role in social media or a food related degree
• 2 years plus researching, writing or developing ideas
• A deep, intuitive understanding of what makes a great food video across social media, from ideation to execution
• An experienced, confident and engaging on camera persona
• Ability to develop and enact creative ideas
• Experience working with brands and clients and to work closely to a brief
• Demonstrable experience testing and writing recipes, both for yourself and for others
• Being comfortable with writing with SEO in mind for our website
• Relationship building
• Time management
• Resilience, Adaptability, Flexibility, Dynamism
• Sharing
• Accountability/Ownership

Bonus Points!

• a 10k plus following of your own social channels

One of our values is collaborate so we expect you to work closely with -

• Our in house videographers and the general Twisted team.
• For branded content, we work with the project management team and internal agency The Wild.
• Alongside this, you'll be working with external agencies as well as directly with the client. On shoots, we often use external camera operators, riggers etc.

Other information

What's in it for you?

Working at Jungle has its perks. People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to suit everyone!

• Free breakfast daily
• Dog friendly office
• Generous holiday allowance to include your birthday day off
• Eye care
• A great wellbeing platform; access to our Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders
• Generous family friendly policies
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• Recognition schemes and people awards
• Long service awards
• Access to great high street discount vouchers & much more!
• Cycle to work scheme

We want you to add to our culture

At Jungle Creations, we aim to ensure our workforce reflects the diverse society we live in. Our different ideas, our different perspectives and our respect for one another enables us to be innovative, creative and build a sense of belonging that actively encourages our people to add to our culture. 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.

Our mission

‘We exist to create ideas that get people to thrive online and in the real world’

This is who we are. These qualities are the things we look for in new Jungle talent, the things we celebrate and reward our people for, and the things clients discover about us and our work.

Please visit our website to find out more about Jungle