From £36000 to £39000 depending on experience Travel Copywriter
Salary £36,000 to £39,000 depending on experience
Permanent
Hybrid / Home and Folkestone/Crawley
The Saga Marketing team are recruiting for an expert Travel Copywriter!
You will be working with the best creative travel marketing team, responsible for producing copy for Saga and Titan Travel’s online and offline channels to a high standard – for accuracy, quality of information, tone of voice, inspiration, and creativity.
Our copywriters can truly flex their creativity around our unique itineraries and worldwide destinations, for tailor-made, tours and hosted stays.
If you are a talented travel writer, used to producing a high volume of copy to tight deadlines, whilst demonstrating excellent diligence, this role could be for you!
We work in a hybrid way at Saga both at home and in the office. You will be required to attend the Folkestone/Crawley office at least twice a week.
Role Responsibility Your responsibilities will span across advertising style, imaginative headline-led marketing sales messages, targeted personal (not just personalised) customer communications, product descriptive content, blogs, and trade communications.
You will report to the Content Lead and work as part of a wider marketing team for all things travel at Saga. Create engaging copy to the brief and deadline on a range of brand communications.
Fully own the writing of copy for all channels; Brochures, Advertising, Email and web copy, Tactical promotions and Saga Magazine.
Champion the brands and write, adapt and edit content in line with our content strategy and consistent tone of voice.
Work with the designers to ensure \\\'joined up\\\' responses to marketing briefs that bring the idea to life.
Have a journalistic style to your writing.)
Execute delivery with affective planning and collaboration across teams.
Engage with Content Lead, Marketing and Product to ensure briefs are provided with required information at the required time to meet deadlines.
Raise risk around deadlines and manage your workload to meet all stage gate deadlines.
Adopt a flexible, enthusiastic, and driven approach to achieving the financial goals of the business.
The Ideal Candidate You will have already worked in the Travel Industry as a credible creative travel writer and can demonstrate previous experience and copy for work you have personally produced, either in-house or agency side. You will also ideally have first-hand travel experience, along with the following;
Impeccable skills in writing - grammar, punctuation, tone and positioning.
Must have a solid understanding of tour operating, and, ideally, first-hand travel experience.
Experience writing for web and understands nuances of SEO and online copy.
Attention to detail is key, project tasks have multiple outputs and providing our customers accurate and timely information is vital.
Zealous in their approach to ensuring that existing products are kept up to date, on-brand and consistent across all promotional channels.
Ideally educated to degree level with a journalist / marketing / creative writing subject.
We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that\\\'s why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.
25 days holiday + bank holidays
~ Option to purchase additional leave up to 5 extra days
~ Pension scheme matched up to 10%
~ Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%
~ Life assurance policy on joining us
~ Wellbeing programme
~ Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises and holidays
~ Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
~ Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
~ About the Company Over the past 70 years we have become the UK\\\'s specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team.