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We care and it shows. We pride ourselves on employing the leading minds in creative content and have offices in London, Hong Kong and Cape Town. What does it take to be a Cedar person? Talent, humanity and commitment – and a ‘Yes we can’ mentality our clients love. Sound like you? Then join us. We draw on the talents of the whole team, from the most junior to most senior, to deliver the exceptional. Together we produce fabulous multi-platform content with an unexpected twist – and always with a human touch.

But that’s enough about us. We’re not the point – you are.

Please look below for details of our current vacancies.

• Senior designer, Travel and Luxury London

  What we’re looking for:
  
  We are seeking an exceptional designer for our Internal Communications print titles. The role involves creating layouts, art directing photoshoots and commissioning illustrations and infographics, reporting to the Group Art Director.

  The ideal candidate will have:

  • • Previous magazine design experience
  • • An understanding of the production of editorial content
  • • Great attention to detail
  • • Ability to work to a tight schedule + effectively manage workloads
  • • Experience of Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign
  • • An understanding of social media channels
  • • An understanding of digital channels
  • 
    SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
  • • Good/Excellent knowledge of InDesign
  • • Good/Excellent knowledge of Photoshop
  • • Good/Excellent knowledge of Illustrator
  • • Good/Excellent knowledge of Emagine

  
  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  
  1. Design

  • • Working with the Group Art Director to produce creative and innovative layouts for Cedar’s Internal Communications magazines.
  • • Creating briefs and commissioning illustrations
  • • Liaising with the Editor and Group Art Director on visual look of features
  • • Booking and briefing photographers and illustrators
  • • Organising commissioning forms and briefs
  • • Liaising with and briefing the picture editor

  
  2. Shoots

  • • Working with the Group Art Director and Editor on creative plans.
  • • Attending photoshoots and art directing shoots when appropriate

  
  3. General

  • • Attending team meetings to ensure up to date with all projects and opportunities.
  • • Suggesting new photographers, ideas and concepts.
  • • Working with the in-house production team, and printer to have imagery retouched and
    uploaded to the printer.

  
  Please send through all CVs, and portfolios, to Kris Short, kris.short@cedarcom.co.uk or Cath.Greenslade@cedarcom.co.uk with ‘Senior Designer’ in the email subject line. The closing date for applications is 30th April 2019.

• Photo editor, Travel Hong Kong

  Cedar Hong Kong are hiring.

  We are looking for an experienced Photo Editor to join our growing team.

  Are you interested in travel? Do you have an eye for a beautiful image? Would you like to work in a high energy office with a great team working on exciting products?

  The role includes commissioning photoshoots and picture research for Cathay Pacific’s print and digital products; coordinating with the creative director/group art director and the team members to identify photography needs; assigning projects to photographers and keeping track of the deadlines; and reviewing photos, editing and preparing imagery for print and digital use.

  If you think this is a role that suits your skills and passion please send your resume to: steve.ellul@cedarcom.hk

• Content director, Tesco London

  OVERVIEW

  The content director on the Tesco account is the lead content creative for the output delivered on behalf of Tesco.  Their role is to ensure quality control of our content to the consumer and client, to develop the content strategy across the account and ensure that the teams are delivering to that vision, to manage and provide leadership, inspiration and development for our content teams and to have a focus on social and digital content development, as well as seek new business opportunities.

  CHANGE OBJECTIVES:

  Cedar would like to bring in someone in this role that has social and digital expertise. In order to respond to the needs of Tesco we need to become even more ‘digital and social first’. 

  We already plan multi-channel content executions and we create bespoke social and digital content, but we believe we need a figure head leading this team who better understands the nuances of the social channels and better understands how to execute ideas across digital platforms. We also need a strategic thinker who can see the big picture and deliver strategic thought leadership and work to the client, and be well versed in measurement and paid media strategies for digital and social so can influence the strategy of the media agency when it comes to content. 

  We believe by bringing in someone with this experience they will be able to upskill the current content teams and also enable Cedar to position ourselves with Tesco as the credible social and digital content voice amongst their agencies.

  ROLE OBJECTIVES:

  • • Ensuring highest quality content standards across the portfolio
  • • Sign off and input of all RTB’s to clients
  • • Develop content strategy in line with Tesco objectives and with a focus on ROI, alongside the strategy director, business director and group art director
  • • Focused on developing our current social and digital offering for Tesco and providing content innovation for those channels by overseeing and inputting into our campaign planning process and strategic response to briefs, as well as developing proactive campaign ideas to take to Tesco
  • • To work closely with our senior digital content editor in developing proactive digital first campaign ideas and upskilling them in the area of PPC, strategic thinking and social channel innovations
  • • Support development strategy on RFO and lead social strategy alongside team
  • • Confident using insights and working with strategy and insights team to guide content ideation
  • • To ensure metrics and measurement become a more integral part of content creation
  • • To translate content talk to ‘marketing talk’ for our clients and make sure it ladders back to business objectives
  • • Works with editorial teams where required to lead and shape the creative outputs and ensure we are delivering a fully-integrated cross-channel solution
  • • Guardian of the tone of voice
  • • Recruitment of the best talent and developing new team structures as required
  • • Leader of our content teams, providing inspiration, managing and nurturing talent and ensuring development plans are in place

  ATTRIBUTES:

  Energetic, proactive, leader, confident presenter, strategic thinker, social channel expert, content expert, good understanding of paid media planning, commercially minded, enjoys developing talent, organised, calm under pressure, authoritative, collaborative, an integrator, self-motivated, challenger, innovative, empathetic, team player, takes ownership, can-do attitude, does the detail where required, delegates effectively, focused on objectives, goal orientated, focused and can prioritise the priorities.

  Please send through all CVs to Kate McLeod kate.mcleod@cedarcom.co.uk with ‘Content Director’ in the email subject line. The closing date for applications is 14 June 2019.

We are always interested in hearing from talented people, so if you’d like to work with us but there’s no suitable role at the moment, just drop us a line with your CV to: Cath.Greenslade@cedarcom.co.uk

At Cedar, we have an underlying belief that our services should reflect the society in which we live. Be that Age, Disability, Education, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender identity, National Origin, Race, Religion or Belief or Sexual Orientation. 

Simply, we believe that Inclusion and Diversity makes for a more stimulating, creative and inspiring working environment, where people are treated with respect and can be comfortable being themselves. Embracing these different approaches and thinking helps deliver tangible and positive results for our clients' businesses.