Food Editor (internal only)

We're proud to produce the in-store customer magazine for one of the UK's biggest and most dynamic food retailers: Asda. The vibrant magazine is packed with exclusive recipes and is read by millions every month. As Food Writer, you will assist the Food Editor creating all of our recipe and food content. You will collaborate to conceive imaginative and helpful themes for recipe content; commission and oversee testing for all of our original recipes, adopting the Asda customer mindset; assisting in the management of the process of nutritional analysis with external stakeholders; and be a lead expert on food and food trends within the team. Above all, you will ensure that all our food content is engaging, accurate, nutritionally balanced, budget-friendly and meets the varied needs of shoppers while fulfilling the client brief. For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

• A passion for working with Asda to create and showcase varied, exciting, great-value food.
• An endless supply of great ideas to inspire people to cook, experiment, explore and manage their budgets and a passion for the grocery industry.
• Significant experience in professional food content creation, ideally with recipe development, testing, styling and content delivery for a consumer and / or retail brand. (Please include links to a portfolio or examples of your work.)
• Proven organisational, writing and editing skills in a fast-paced team environment.
• Experience of working to a client brief and responding smartly to client needs and feedback, ideally in an agency environment. The ability to confidently champion and explain your ideas to colleagues and clients, and always maintain a positive, collaborative client relationship.
Desirable
• Cookery / food qualification at diploma level or higher
  
  Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.
We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content - in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus. We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better - in print, video, and online., We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles. We're striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at . Flexible and hybrid working We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office. Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year. We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies. Company benefits include
• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance
Our values We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world. We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030. To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:
• Be kind
• Always curious
• Be the best we can be