Senior Writer

**Locations**:
**Wellington**:
**Christchurch**:
**Auckland**:
**An exciting opportunity has become available for a **Senior** **Content Writer** to join **Marsh New Zealand.**:
**You will be reporting to** Senior Marketing and Communications Manager, New Zealand.**:
**What is in it for you?**:

- ** Professional environment where your career path is supported within our global organisation.**:

- ** Great team with close knit, energetic and supportive colleagues.**:

- ** Full time permanent opportunity based in our Auckland office.**:
**Are you an ambitious content writer adaptable to long
- and short-form content form? Are you looking to gain or enhance online high-demand skills, such as SEO writing and online paid advertising?**:
**Do you want to work in an energetic and supportive environment with many opportunities to grow and ongoing training?**:
**We will count on you to**:
**This role works with every aspect of content for the NZ B2B audience: long-form editorials, product/industry-based information bites, short-form online advertising and brochures. This is a fast-paced role and requires exceptional attention to detail.**:
**You will be involved in creating strategies, planning, execution, optimising for SEO, online competitor research and advertising copywriting. You will have an opportunity to work with the marketing team, internal digital specialists and external digital agencies.**:
**Primary Responsibilities**:
**Creating content that is unique, industry-specific, impactful, and most importantly - useful**:

- ** Initially, the website will involve a large amount of new content. This role will take the lead in delivering this project. Once launched, the website content will be continuously created, monitored for accuracy, and updated to reflect changes in the industry.**:

- ** Develop an understanding of key audience groups such as industry associations and their members and SMEs.**:

- ** Collaborate with an SEO specialist, understand and follow provided SEO best practices and recommendations.**:

- ** Collaborate with various marketing and business stakeholders, understand the goals they are trying to achieve.**:

- ** Learn from agency partners how to produce engaging online ads that entice our audience to take desired actions.**:

- ** Learn to use CMS (Content Management System) authoring tools (similar to MSWord editing) to upload produced content to a website.**:
**Planning, executing, and contributing to the growth of our business;**:

- ** Manage content and advertising calendar in collaboration with marketing campaigns**:

- ** Ensuring information is factually accurate and meets regulatory standards.**:

- ** Helping facilitate business, legal and brand approval for content.**:

- ** Be proactive in looking for opportunities to develop new content.**:

- ** Contribute to development and management of the content plan.**:
**What you need to be successful?**:
**First and foremost, you are passionate about writing and want to improve continuously.**:
**You will also**:

- ** Make complex technical information easy to understand for a broad audience.**:

- ** Always develop content with the audience and business objective in mind.**:

- ** Manage your time well, knowing your deadlines and how to prioritise and project manage.**:

- ** Be curious; about the industry, the areas we have expertise in, marketing and communication trends and ideas and bring this into the work you deliver in the form of ideas and new angles.**:

- ** Be interested in contributing to the energy and team environment.**:
**Other education, experience and capabilities**:

- ** You have a degree in marketing, communication, or journalism.**:

- ** You have 2+ years’ experience.**:

- ** You will be proficient in Microsoft Office plus and have well developed time management skills.**:

- ** Ideally, you have experience working with (or in) the insurance industry or a financial services organisation.**:
**About Marsh**:
**Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their sex/gender, marital or parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.**: