Beauty Editor

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Beauty Editor who will lead all beauty editorial across the Selfridges website, emails, and digital marketing channels, supporting the Editor in Chief in creating a best-in-class customer experience for the Selfridges.com beauty customer.

A bit about the role

The Beauty Editor will be integral to generating ideas and writing frontline digital features and editorial content with a particular focus on beauty. They will develop relationships with key stakeholders in the Beauty Buying & Merchandising team, as well as within the Digital Fashion Direction and Multimedia Creative teams, to maximise the beauty voice across the digital channels, particularly through home page features and editorial shoots. They will lead on all Beauty Takeover content and be a key driver in ensuring the biannual franchise remains relevant and industry-leading. They will also play a key role in ensuring the tone of voice is seamless from beauty editorial to beauty product copy on the website.

In this fast paced role the Beauty Editor will write the Beauty Insider features for Selfridges.com and developing it into a weekly franchise, ensuring engageability, relevance and a strong voice in an already crowded beauty market. You’ll manage the beauty writer and ensure that they are responsible for best in class output for all digital beauty content, from home page features to emails, digital marketing copy and product copy. The Selfridges’ bi-annual website takeover will be just one of many projects that this role will work on, ensuring that creation of inspiring, industry-leading and relevant content that is in keeping with our brand and creative values.

Day to day you will manage the analysis of home page and editorial feature performance for the beauty category and the editorial input into beauty photo shoots, liaising in particular with the B&M and Digital Fashion Direction teams on idea evolution and story development. Ultimately you will ensure a seamless and strong connection between topline editorial tone of voice across the website and product copy tone of voice within the beauty category.

A bit about you

• Significant experience in print publishing or digital content essential. Digital retail experience preferable.
• A minimum of four year’s experience in a print or digital beauty editorial role essential.
• Excellent writing skills and an excellent working knowledge and passion for the fashion industry.

• This is a role that combines a flair for writing, an original and intelligent take on beauty content, and excellent people skills to be able to form strong relationships with key business stakeholders facilitating the best-informed beauty approach.