Automotive Product Writer

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the worlds top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of todays content experience.

Job Overview

We are looking for a strong automotive product writer to be a key player on our Bangkok team. The role requires a mix of strong news gathering skills, the ability to cultivate relationships with internal subject matter experts and a demonstrable interest in cars. The right candidate will get an exclusive look at new products and technologies in development, meet the people behind them and play a central part in introducing these products to the world by creating great content.

Responsibilities

• Ideate, write, and produce content for the brands earned, and owned channels as well as internal distribution.
• Collaborate with a variety of key agency stakeholders. Be comfortable in a client-facing position with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally.
• Editing and proofreading content, looking for mistaks before publication.
• Conducting research on engaging brand and industry-related topics.
• Conducting interviews with client-side SMEs to learn more about product development to pitch or craft engaging content.
• Prepare well-structured and comprehensive copy to match the brief, brand guidelines and distribution channel.
• Working with regional market communications leads on story development and localization.
• Support production and content capture as required.

Skills & Abilities

• Minimum 3-4 years of experience working as a journalist, content creator, content writer or similar (across print, digital/social or broadcast) at either an agency or news service.
• Content development experience across multiple digital platforms.
• Proficiency in English with excellent writing, editing and proofreeding skills.
• Strong verbal as well as written communication skills.
• A keen eye for details
• An analytical mind with an understanding of the automotive landscape, ability to problem-solve, and pivot at a moments notice.
• Be a self-starter with excellent time-management and organisational skills.
• Be comfortable asking questions. All the time.
• News judgment based on topicality, relevance to the audience and brand.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

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