Overview
Reporting to the Commercial Features Editorial Director, The Business of Fashion is seeking a Junior Commercial Writer to join its Content Strategy team. Working across every element of BoF, the content strategy team drives the creative concepts and execution of a variety of commercial partnerships, long-form written reports, multimedia projects, editorial franchises and global events.
The team is also responsible for the content strategy and output that supports the BoF Careers platform, driving brand awareness and applications, as well as community events and content engagement for our global BoF Careers partners.
Who Are We?
The Business of Fashion is recognised around the world for its authoritative, analytical point of view on the global fashion and beauty industries. Our mission: to open, inform and connect the global fashion and beauty industries.
Serving members in more than 125 countries, The Business of Fashion combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools and immersive events, powering positive change in fashion and the wider world.
Over time, our pioneering approach has made BoF the fashion industry’s leading source of business intelligence, and one of its most respected and influential voices, simply because you won’t find BoF’s original reporting, analysis and advice anywhere else. The Business of Beauty brings the same kind of agenda-setting coverage to the beauty and wellness space. Today, our talented team of correspondents, editors, analysts, engineers, designers, marketers and more numbers more than 100 people in London, New York, Paris and Milan
Commitment to Diversity
BoF is committed to building a diverse workforce and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. All applicants and employees receive equal treatment regardless of race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity.
Commitment to Inclusivity
BoF is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and reach their full potential within their roles using a growth mindset. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture for our employees globally.
Commitment to Accessibility
BoF is committed to providing an accessible environment for all applicants throughout any stage of the recruitment process, by removing any barriers to ensure we offer a process that gives all of our applicants an opportunity to shine.
We will work with you to understand what adjustments you may need in the recruitment process to ensure you are able to perform at your best and we want to create a safe space to support this. Should you require any particular adjustment to be made, please let the Talent Specialist who is managing your application know when you are contacted for an interview, so we can consider how best we can support you with this.
What we need you to do:
The Commercial Writer role is an opportunity to produce compelling content, conduct interviews with leading industry executives, and write editorial content supporting our careers output. The individual will also play a critical supporting role on long-form reports, partnership integration of BoF’s global flagship events and content strategies to achieve business goals.
The successful candidate will play a significant role in:
- Conduct interviews and write regular features across partner and careers content
- Copy-edit features to ensure they are of an excellent standard and adhere to BoF tone of voice
- Assist in the ideation of content strategies, articles and events for brand partnerships
- Be responsible for article production, image sourcing and formatting
- Support on and deliver partner and community events
- Support the team with briefings and presentations
Who you are:
You are a junior writer with a few bylines under your belt. You are a detail-oriented wordsmith, with an ability to marry data analysis with a strong narrative. You are comfortable with interviewing industry executives through to fashion students, and able to extract a compelling narrative from any interviewee.
You are adaptable to fast-paced deadlines and managing multiple stories at once. You are able to collaborate with different creative and commercial entities across the business to deliver on projects.
You have an understanding of the commercial operations of the fashion and luxury industries and the market forces that affect them most, including sustainability, technology and consumer behaviour.
You’ll know you’re successful when…
- You are handling the creation of written partner content from concept to completion
- Articles are published according to our Style Guide, tone of voice, and free of errors
- Articles are supported by strong, engaging and on-brand visuals
- You support independent tasks relating to larger projects like community events or multimedia partnerships, such as ideating talent suggestions, topic themes or briefing packs
- The ideas you suggest are backed by data and user behaviour
