For more than 150 years, John Lobb has prided itself in upholding the highest standards and levels of craftsmanship and design in the creation of hand-made shoes and boots for men.

A company of the Hermes group since 1976, the bespoke footwear is still hand-crafted in our workshop in Paris while the ready to wear collections are manufactured in our Northampton factory.

John Lobb owns a global distribution network that includes twenty stores established in eight countries and works with a highly selective network of partners and authorized retailers around the world.

Context:

We are seeking for an experienced Communication & Community Manager to join our HQ Paris office able to work on 360° projects (contents creation, events) and on the John Lobb community development in aim to improve the brand awareness and its business.

The profile we are looking for is someone who likes to be innovative, culturally curious, who thinks out-of-the-box with an entrepreneurship mindset, with strong focus on up-to-date trends.

A person who is connected to international networks linked to the art, craft, new trends and menswear fashion universes.

Contract type: CDD / Freelance from May 13th to end of July 2024.

Responsabilities:

1/ CONTENTS

- Managing multiple projects and meeting key deadlines to ensure successful brand delivery (photos, videos, special projects).

- Suggest the good partners and talents.

- Build the briefs, the projects and budget follow up files and the production/postproduction guidelines.

- Liaise with the local markets in aim to maintain a good comprehension of the tools uses and to understand their needs.

2/ EVENTS AND BRAND ANIMATION

- Event management from concept to D-day organization.

- International scope: corporate and retail events.

- Sourcing the partners, the agencies and the production elements.

- Windows projects management: design agencies and implementation.

3/ COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MEDIAS

- Creation of a strong community and influence dynamic (PR, social medias, retail).

- Identify and liaise with the talents.

- Social medias management (Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, Pinterest).

- KPIs implementation, reporting and benchmark.

4/ PR

- Liaise and daily work with our press agencies (international network).

- Press showrooms organization.

- Digital PR strategy creation.

- Samples press management, reporting.

Requirements:

• Significant experience (min of 5/7 years) in communication and contents projects.
• Project and production management skills: quality/costs/timings.
• PR and community management skills.
• Great understanding of social media platforms (both Western and Eastern).
• Event management experiences.
• An experience in the menswear/premium/luxury/art/craft design industries is welcome.
• International profile. Bilingual/Fluent in English (speaking and writing).
• Copywriting skills.
• Able to work in a global operational way in a human-size company.
• UK / British culture and talents network would be a plus.
• Graphic design (print/digital) skills would be a plus.

Créateur, artisan et marchand d'objets de haute qualité, Hermès est, depuis 1837, une maison française, familiale et indépendante qui emploie près de 20 000 collaborateurs dans le monde. Animé par un esprit d'entreprendre continu et une exigence constante, Hermès cultive la liberté et l'autonomie de chacun grâce à un management responsable. L'entreprise perpétue la transmission de savoir-faire d'exception par un ancrage territorial fort dans le respect des hommes et de la nature - source de matières d'exception. Quinze métiers artisanaux irriguent la créativité de la maison dont les collections rayonnent dans plus de 300 magasins dans le monde.