Maurices Hiring for COPYWRITER at Duluth, Minnesota Full Time

Brand Overview:

maurices is a women’s apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It’s committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life’s adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at maurices.com.Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a Copywriter-maurices to join our team located at our Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802.

Ready to help bring feel good fashion for real life™ to hometowns across North America?  Join our family of amazing individuals in our corporate office in Duluth, Minnesota, ranked one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2019. Since 1931, we’ve helped women look and feel their best every day — making maurices not only a special place to shop, but a great place to work and connect. Apply today!

Position Overview:

Overview: Sure, you have a way with words. But you’re more than a writer with 3+ years of copywriting experience: you have an eye for smart design, a brain for big thinking and a sixth sense for the perfect line that will make customers fall in love with our brand over and over again. You have a strong passion for social media and are eager to work with a team to create compelling content that’s relevant and aspirational for the maurices customer. You can deliver engaging, focused and accurate copy for a wide variety of projects; own assignments from concept to initial draft to deployment; and make it all happen on brief and on time.

Expectations:

• COMMUNICATION – Good leadership starts with good communication. What you write and what you say have power.
• PRODUCTIVE – You aren’t just busy, you are productive. You’ve learned how to manage your projects so that this is true every day.
• OWNERSHIP – You really take ownership of your projects—from start to finish.
• INTERNAL PRESENTATION – You are able to articulate and sell ideas internally.
• PRODUCTION – You don’t just hand off your headline and walk away—be part of the production process until the end.
• TEAM PLAYER – Stuck on a project? You tap into your partners. Storytelling is something you can learn from everyone. Your designers are your co-creators. You work seamlessly with them to construct completely integrated creative.
• EXPERIENCE – You have gained experience writing for everything from ads to emails and social.
• MULTITASKING – You can keep up with multiple projects simultaneously & manage your own work.
• STRATEGY – Strong writing doesn’t just sound good—it’s strategic.
• STORYTELLING – You understand how to craft an idea’s narrative and still sell a product.

Responsibilities:

• Bring an authentic and compelling brand voice to daily organic social content.
• Support emails, ads, and other projects with a holistic view of all channels and best practices within each medium.
• Partners to make sure all copy inserted in layouts is accurate and complete prior to release.
• Reports regularly to Director of Brand Voice on status of projects.
• Works with team members across departments to ensure thorough communication on projects.
• Makes recommendations to Director of Brand Voice on improving processes.
• Gains a solid understanding about the business and customers.
• Develops proper presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, or related subject, plus 3 or more years of writing experience in a fashion retail marketing or advertising agency environment.
• Experience writing for multiple media, including digital, print and social media with an understanding of how to translate a brand across all channels.
• Solid grammar, editing and proofreading capabilities.

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Location:

Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802

Position Type:

Regular/Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.