Website Editor

At Compare the Market (CtM), our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.

It’s why we’re on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!

We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money and that’s why good things happen when you meerkat.

We’d love you to be part of our journey.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our newly formed Content team at Compare the Market as a Website Editor. This role will be pivotal in supporting our Director of Content in creating a high performing Content team. Leading a team of writers, you’ll help and inspire the delivery of our strategy. You’ll embed data-first content principles – gold standard SEO, data-led planning and meticulously monitoring performance metrics to influence planning.

You’ll be the day-to-day lead for all website content, accountable for the deliverability and quality of content that fulfils our purpose, to make financial decision-making simples. Using your personal finance expertise, you’ll build greater understanding across the business, to support our content and to be a spokesperson for CtM across the media. Beyond site content you’ll support the content production on other platforms such as; social media and email.

Everyone is welcome...
We have a culture of creativity. We approach our work passionately, improve constantly and celebrate our wins at every turn. We are an inclusive workplace and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic, whole selves to work. Everyone is welcome. Be you.
This means we’re excited to hear from people with a range of skills, experiences and ideas. We don’t expect you to tick all the boxes, but would love to hear what makes you great for this role.

You’ll be:
• Accountable for all content adhering to high standards to educate customers and make it simples for them to make financial decisions
• Accountable for the content team hitting KPIs on accuracy, output, updates, traffic, user experience and conversion
• Maintaining an expert standard of SEO, collaborating with the SEO team to ensure this happens
• Ensuring our content supports customers making decisions when using our comparisons and tools. This will be via content that answers users’ financial decision-making questions, expert UX and clear calls to action; working with key stakeholders across the business to make this happen
• Ensuring the team employs first-class processes in planning, setting briefs and reporting of KPIs.
• Leading, coaching, developing, attracting and retaining high-performing talent, ensuring appropriate succession planning; and can motivate and drive delivery of objectives
• Supporting the creation of content distributed via channels such as CRM, social media and video
• Commercially minded and collaborate with commercial teams to ensure a smooth pipeline of products that save customers money and to help you understand what topics to prioritise
• An expert in personal finance, and ensure that expertise is reflected in our content so it is an authoritative source of information for customers
• An expert voice for CtM in the wider market/media, to support PR team
• Playing a key role in developing the content strategy for CtM

What we’d like to see from you:
• Multi-platform online editor with a track record of producing content to help audiences, ideally with experience producing finance content
• Leadership skills, with strong coaching skills to develop your teams skills and careers
• Strategic thinking with commercial acumen
• Experience in writing for SEO optimisation
• Expertise in turning complex financial jargon into easy-to-understand content
• Strong numerical skills

Our people bring our purpose to life.
Our newly formed Content team creates high quality content to make decision-making simples. We are passionate about coming up with cutting edge content ideas for articles on our website, emails, social media app and video channels. We answer real customer problems and want to help as many people as possible through first class SEO standards. We champion a culture of innovation and challenge.

There’s something for everyone.
We’re a place of opportunity. You’ll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a team of amazingly talented people.

And then there’s our benefits. For us, it’s not just about a competitive salary and hybrid working, we care about what matters to you. From a generous holiday allowance and private healthcare to an electric car scheme and paid development, wellbeing and CSR days, we’ve pretty much got you covered!

We are committed to offering equal chances to you throughout the application process, so if you require any special adjustments to be made, please let us know. We will work with you to make any appropriate arrangements.