Editorial Assistant
Description
- Manage beauty and makeup products and samples for shoots, including PR call-ins and store collections, with guidance from the associate editor and art editor.
- Oversee the products and props cupboards, keeping these organised.
- Manage contributor POs, invoices and commissioning forms.
- Support the picture editor with financial admin, courier and taxi bookings.Â
- Assist the picture editor on shoots where necessary, with logistical and ad hoc tasks.Â
- Manage magazine mail-outs and PDFs for contributors.
- Liaise with PRs about enquiries, products, new launches, and interview opportunities, actively building on these contacts.
- Help with contributor readbacks and approvals each issue.
- Participate in creative brainstorms at the beginning of each issue, contributing topical, audience-relevant ideas across beauty, health and wellness.
- Ad hoc research or writing for the associate editor, when required.
- Stay abreast of current lifestyle, health and beauty trends.
- Understand the brand values, tone of voice, and magazine audience.
- Support the team with other ad hoc tasks as required.
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- You are keen and enthusiastic, happy to turn your hand to any task.
- Actively interested in the world of beauty, health and wellness, following activity in these areas.
- Ability to multitask, ensuring deadlines are met.
- You have good attention to detail.
- Collaborative and flexible, with a can-do approach.
- Looking to be part of a friendly team.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Talented at writing and researching, with an interest in developing these skills further.
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