Who we are
A piece of the moon, a complete dinosaur skeleton, the Pope's hat, the world's smallest book - at Catawiki, we come across exceptional objects such as these every day.
Catawiki is the leading online marketplace to buy and sell special objects. We offer over 75,000 special objects in auction every week — each reviewed and selected by one of Catawiki’s hundreds of in-house experts specialised in Art, Design, Jewellery, Fashion, Classic Cars, Collectables and many more.
We've sold 10 million unique items to date and it’s our mission to become the world’s most popular auction destination for special objects.
We’re an innovative, pioneering and fast-growing scale-up. If you think you can make a difference to our team, go ahead and apply.
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Social & Content Strategy Lead who is skilled in marrying content strategy with world class creative execution, distribution and measurement. You will create and implement the Catawiki Content Strategy across our key channels, push our creative ambition with agency partners and our own studio, and measure the effectiveness of that strategy. As such, the perfect candidate will be both a media and creative strategist at heart.
The successful candidate will work with our social and content marketers to ensure content is delivered to the highest standard, is on brand, and is leveraged and distributed to its full potential to influence customer actions. Beyond the social and content team, you will work on a daily basis with other members of the Marketing team - on activations and campaigns as well as partnerships and category led initiatives.
What you’ll do
- Create and define social channels plans combining owned, paid and influencer
- Bring big ideas to life by managing creative development (internal and external) - from briefing to deployment
- Combine creativity and effectiveness through strong understanding of audiences, touchpoints and channel thinking
- Apply your understanding of how brands grow, and how effective social content creates impact and gets measurable results
- Use data and research to inform and optimise your approach, whilst being open to creative innovation, new channels and exploration
- Strong storytelling, persuasive pitching and partner engagement to get teams excited and onboard with your thinking
- Help to craft and develop our planning processes and collaboration across marketing and beyond
What you’ll bring
- Significant experience (5+) in a communications planning or social strategy role, responsible for channel thinking and campaign planning.
- Experience of using data to build plans and working within a defined planning processes.
- Experience of working with or within agencies to develop creative and executional thinking.
- Ability to stay ahead and move with consumer behaviours, technology platforms, and cultural shifts
- Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and emotional to be a key member of our team
- Desire to stay close to projects throughout their life cycle to maintaining strategic and creative excellence
- Passion for creating content that has an impact, that matters and that’s memorable
This role will be hybrid and our office is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Here’s what we can offer you
This is your chance to join our mission to fulfill people’s passions as part of a young and dynamic organization. You'll be part of an enthusiastic, highly motivated team of 800+ Catawikians.
Additionally, you can expect:
- A challenging role in a diverse, international and fast-growing organisation with over 50 nationalities.
- Regular fun activities both on and offline e.g summer parties, boat rides and regular team events.
- Great secondary benefits including a holiday allowance and a fantastic pension plan paid for by Catawiki.
- Hybrid ways of working between home and office. We offer remote and activity-based working, suited to the team and individual responsibilities
- We care about our teams’ wellbeing and offer a holistic wellbeing programme including our Employee Assistance Programme offering clinical services, single-session therapy, wellness support and more.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth;
We want to help you celebrate special occasions in life by:
- Provide employees with a 100 EURO Catavoucher upon joining and 50 EURO birthday Catavouchers;
- Extra days of annual leave for work anniversaries at 3, 5, 8 and 10 years;
- Additional leave allowances for important life events such as moving, engagement & marriage;
- Each year Catawikians get an additional day’s leave to Pursue their Passion!
Please note that our benefits offering changes depending on which country you are employed in. For our country-specific offering please ask your recruiter.
Our commitment to you
Catawiki’s eclectic team represents an international and intergenerational mix of people from different professional and cultural backgrounds. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly work environment, committed to making every Catawikian feel welcomed and empowered. Whatever your story, we encourage you to bring your unique perspective to the table.
Catawiki stands with Ukraine and encourages people displaced by the current conflict to apply. In addition to the several initiatives we’ve launched, we’re open to ideas on ways we can continue to support the humanitarian effort.
Our offices and way of working
We have sensational offices in Amsterdam, Groningen, Paris and our newest office in Lisbon. Most of our employees are within commutable distance of one of our office locations and enjoy a hybrid work model. This means we expect you to be in the office 2 out of 5 days, roughly 40% of your working time, to collaborate and connect with each other. The exception is of course, if the job description specifically states that the role is 100% remote, as some experts and sales positions are.
Interested?
Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter by submitting your information at the bottom of this page. By submitting your application you agree to Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy.
If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We’re continually incorporating hybrid elements, while employees choose how they split their work between the office and home.
We strive to be an employer where your impact is meaningful, visible and rewarded.
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