Content Marketing

**Are you a skilled wordsmith, with a passion for creating engaging, thought-provoking content? We are looking for a Content Marketing & Communications Executive to join our Durban Office. Could this be you?**
**Who are MMR...**

The MMR Group is a highly respected and successful collection of brands, providing marketing services to a wide range of corporate clients predominantly in the CPG arena. Services include consumer and sensory research, innovation consultancy, brand strategy, video production, digital design and marketing communications.

We employ over 520 people across the globe, delivering turnover of £50m with the ambition to grow to £200m. Our brands include:

- **MMR Research**: An industry leading £40m consumer and sensory research agency, operating in 10 countries and partnering with more than half of the world’s top 100 CPG companies. They deliver consumer insight that helps brands to create and launch extraordinary products and brand experiences.
- **Huxly**: A brand consultancy with a product lens, using the power of sensory and qualitative research to help brands ideate and develop winning strategies.
- **KICR Innovation**: A joint venture with FIS, KICR is focused on helping clients create disruptive innovation in the food and drink arena. With a vast network of development chefs and innovation experts to support across the entire process - from initial ideation to product development, manufacturing and launch.
- **Ideal Insight**: An agile, creative video content production and social media management agency
- **Together Agency**: An insight-led social, digital, packaging and creative brand marketing agency

**About our Opportunity...**

The PR & Content Marketing Executive is a B2B marketing role helping to develop and implement our PR & content marketing strategy across the MMR Group of companies.

First and foremost, you will have top-class, proven business writing skills, combined with a creative and analytical mind. This means you’ll be able to listen and digest sometimes complex concepts and conversations and distill them down into compelling, accessible, interesting and powerful prose for use in our external content marketing and PR efforts.

You’ll be energized by the prospect of reaching out to key English-speaking vertical and niche media contacts (predominantly FMCG/CPG, market research, marketing, brand strategy, advertising/creative trade publications) around the world in order to land regular media/influencer coverage and raise our industry profile amongst our target audiences in our global target markets (including US, UK, Europe, Africa, Asia).

**Requirements**:
You know you’re right for this role if you have
- Demonstratable experience in English language business writing, copywriting or business journalism.
- Some experience in working productively with journalists to get media coverage (or as a journalist/within a publication) is beneficial
- Top class writing skills, fluent spoken and written English, excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and influence
- An understanding of the FMCG/CPG industry and/or the market research or marketing industry would be beneficial but not essential
- English, Journalism, Public Relations, Business or Marketing Services related degree
- Some experience or interest in B2B marketing
- A multi-tasker, good at hitting (reasonable) deadlines and developing copy with high attention to detail, on spec and on time.
- Strong attention to detail

**Benefits**
**What’s in it For You?**

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
**Culture**:We are a people-first company that prides itself on collaboration, honesty and mutual trust. We’ve created an open, creative and non-hierarchical working environment. Not to mention the exciting secondment opportunities that are available across our global locations.
**Company Contribution**:

- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

**Wellbeing**:Comprehensive benefit plans with your wellbeing at the forefront, inclusive of
- **Learning & Development**: Offering second to none training to ensure our clients are working with market experts, to support this training and personal development programs are offered at every level. Working with top FMCG companies and the largest brands on the market we’re learning with the best Growth opportunities are unlimited with access and opportunity to collaborate with our partner video, innovation, marketing and brand consultancy companies too.
**MMR Academy **- Academy, a modular training programme that covers a whole host of topics from sensory, statistics, presentation skills, quantitative and qualitative methods, time management and many more.
**Training Funding Scheme** - MMR offers all full and part-time permanent employees the opportunity to participate in a Training Fund scheme where the company will sponsor employees for studies which dire