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6 October 2025

Copywriter

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Hours

Full-time

Location

Leeds-Hybrid (In office 3 days per week)

Department

Creative

Salary

Competitive salary

We’re looking for a Copywriter to join our award-winning creative department. You’ll work across our mouth-watering range of clients, crafting copy and coming up with campaign ideas across both traditional media and digital.

As well as a top-notch portfolio, we want someone with a sharp strategic brain and the craft skills to bring ideas to life confidently and memorably.

You’ll be comfortable presenting to clients, thinking on your feet in meetings and briefing external suppliers to make sure your work is the best it can be.

This is an outstanding opportunity to take your career to the next level as part of a tight-knit creative team working on exciting briefs that make our clients famous.

Key Accountabilities

Client Accountability 

Based in our Leeds office, you will:        

  • Work across multiple client accounts, generating concepts and copy that meet the brief and exceed expectations.
  • Be happy working on your own on ‘copy only’ jobs as well as teaming up with a designer to create concepts and rounded campaigns.
  • Contribute to the creative output on competitive pitches and, when required, present to prospective clients in a way that influences, inspires and delivers results.
  • Ensure that all work meets clients’ standards and Tone of Voice guidelines.
  • Ensure that ideas presented are unique to the client and are achievable within the clients’ brief, timescale and budget.
  • Support the planning and delivery of shoots on location and radio recordings, attending as and when required.
  • Represent the agency in client brainstorms and workshops.

Agency Accountability                                                                                         

  • Work closely with Client Services teams to create impactful ideas that solve client challenges
  • Deliver on expected creative standards, and where necessary challenge briefs appropriately, to ensure Jaywing deliver ideas which engage and deliver on results.
  • When requested work in collaboration with creative teams across the wider Jaywing business to utilise other specialisms and skills in order to deliver the best possible outcome for clients.
  • When required, work closely with third-party creative suppliers contracted on client work, including freelance resource.
  • Ensure that projects are delivered effectively and efficiently, working collaboratively with colleagues to ensure the best possible approach is agreed.
  • Proactively seek to develop skills and build knowledge across all channels and trends to ensure that output results in the best possible solutions and outcome for the clients.
  • Manage and prioritise workload effectively, and ensure challenges are escalated appropriately and in time to avoid a risk to quality or delivery.
  • Ensure that all agency creative and operational processes are followed.

Financial Accountability

  • Ensure that project work is delivered within timescales set.
  • Source, and when required support Client Services teams, to vet and select the best possible external third parties.
  • Ensure that time is reported correctly and any changes or concerns regarding time or resource requirements are escalated appropriately and in a timely manner.

Skills and capabilities required

Knowledge

  • A broad knowledge of multiple channels and creative disciplines.
  • Extensive knowledge of industry sectors and markets in Jaywing’s core client base.

Experience

  • Experience as a copywriter within an integrated agency.
  • Experience of brand and integrated communications across multiple channels.
  • Experience of working on shoots and their preparation and planning.
  • Experience in specific key client sectors. Utilities, financial services, leisure, education and automotive desirable.
  • Experience working with senior creatives both internally and externally with clients.

Skills

  • Strong conceptual copywriter with ability to move seamlessly between clients with varied tones of voice
  • A creative strategic thinker, with strong language and visual skills.
  • An understanding of current and upcoming trends across multi-channels.
  • A self-starting attitude and an open outlook, ability to think beyond the boundaries.
  • Resilience under pressure and excellent time management.
  • A team-player, with excellent interpersonal skills as well as the ability to inspire others.
  • An understanding of data, creative and digital application and how they work together.
  • Some knowledge of the software and applications involved in the creative process.
  • Exceptional presentation skills alongside strong written and verbal communication.
  • High level of diplomacy and the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships across the agency at all levels.

Other information

  • Willing to travel as and when required.
  • On occasion and when required, work outside normal work hours.

Does this sound like you?

Send a covering letter, CV and anything else you think showcases your talent to [email protected]  
  
Jaywing is an equal opportunities employer. 

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