This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working (London, 5 days a month in the office including every Tuesday and first Thursday of the month), 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays and a fantastic pension scheme offering 6% in year one and 11% after this.

Salary £28,000 - £36,000 per annum

Only applications that include a statement of suitability (up to 400 words) alongside your CV will be considered. Your statement will explain your mix of writing, project management and research experience, clearly referencing your roles from your CV, and how that makes you right for a Writer/researcher role at Which?. 

About the role

We're looking for a Writer/Researcher to join our Product Testing team in our London office. This role requires top class proven writing skills to produce online product reviews, advice and news content as well as print features.  You'll also need a laser-sharp eye for detail so you can interpret research findings from Which's robust consumer product lab testing.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Exceptional writing and journalistic skills, to produce well-written and consumer-focused content/outputs across a range of channels, and ensure existing content is reviewed, curated and kept up to date
• Excellent project management and delivery skills, that enable you to manage multiple tasks and deadlines, prioritise your own workload and deliver on time. 
• Getting to grips with data from our test laboratories about tested products using Excel/Google sheets, pulling out key information in this technical data, and presenting your findings in an engaging and consumer-focused way. 

About you:

You'll already have the key skills and experience to hit the ground running in this role, work at pace and take initiative and ownership across the projects you'll manage. 

You'll have first-rate writing skills, and be able to get to grips with complex results using Google and Excel spreadsheets so you can deliver content for our product reviews, online content and flagship magazine, Which?. 

Just as importantly, you'll regularly keep your online content reviewed, curated and up to date, using SEO, keyword and analytics skills to help monitor success and highlight gaps or identify trends to inform your research and content. 

Working as part of a team, you'll have strong workload management and prioritisation skills, enabling you to keep multiple projects with long, medium and short term deadlines and requirements running smoothly and to budget.

The interview process for this role involves:-

• A pre-interview writing task (approx 300 words)
• An interview on TEAMS (approximately 90 minutes) consisting of values and experience-based competency questions and a role related research task

Interviews are expected to commence from 22nd September.

Benefits

 We also have these benefits for you to consider: 

• 35 hour working week
• Generous 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays & Option to buy additional days
• Excellent pension scheme – when you pay in 3%, Which? pays in 6% (rising to 11% after one year of service.) 
• Discount site Pluxee which offers large %% off every day shopping and holidays 
• Annual Award (depending on employee and company performance)
• Healthcare insurance & Private medical insurance and opportunity to participate in Vitality rewards programme (at 6 months)
• A discretionary death in service benefit provision equivalent to six times your annual salary
• Free access to Which? member content and free access to Which? money & legal helplines 
• Free wills for all Which? employees, plus, partners of employees can make their will at cost price.
• Work from (almost) anywhere” for 4 weeks of the year policy

About Which?

We promote a great work-life balance (all our roles are now hybrid), offering flexible working options in addition to a full time working week (35 hours) e.g. part time or job shares where possible. If you wish to discuss any of these options, please contact the Resourcing team at recruitment@which.co.uk

Which? is the UK's consumer champion, here to make life simpler, fairer and safer for everyone. You can find out more about what we do, our people and culture as well as hints and tips on how to complete your application on our Careers site.

At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We are proud that we are in the ‘Top 25 Inclusive Employers' List and currently ranking 3rd.

 We want to receive applications from everyone. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we ensure that everyone can apply and be part of our recruitment processes and so we'll make reasonable adjustments if you need them. For this or any other assistance you need with applying (i.e., would like to apply by phone or post), email recruitment@which.co.uk. Find out more about the Disability Confident Interview Scheme here.

Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed. 

We reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received, although we hope it will be open for a minimum of 7 days (dependant on the number of applications). If the advert appears closed, you are welcome to reach out to Linda Williams at linda.williams@which.co.uk who will assist you.