Our vision is to make the world a healthier, happier place. At Slimming World, we transform the lives of our valued members and help them achieve long-term success through a liberating eating plan and unique support system developed over many years. People are at the heart of Slimming World - if you'd love to be part of our journey and make a difference, we can't wait to hear from you Do you want to hear more about the Slimming World story? You can find out more here. About the role… This is an opportunity for a passionate PR professional to join our dynamic in-house PR team as PR Assistant within the Consumer PR team for a fixed 12-month period. Helping the team to cover a colleague’s maternity leave, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to work directly with journalists and media outlets to showcase Slimming World’s expertise, high-quality products and services, and share our inspirational and motivational member success stories. You’ll work with the wider Consumer PR team on some of Slimming World’s best known PR activities, including sharing the stories of our national competition winners. You’ll be responsible for the PR behind the best-selling Slimming World Magazine, the only food range in supermarkets based on Slimming World’s famous healthy eating plan and the brand-new meal kit brand Slimming World Kitchen. You’ll work as a team with PR colleagues and develop and hone essential PR skills including direct approaches from the media, monitoring press coverage featuring Slimming World and industry topics, while staying up to date with PR trends. About you… We’d love to hear from you if you are naturally warm and friendly with a sense of fun, and: are self-motivated and can work across multiple projects and prioritise workload with good time-management skills are empathetic and passionate about inspiring and motivating people to lead healthier lives are confident in communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders have strong written and verbal communication skills are early in your PR career and keen to get experience working in a busy press office, for a national brand that is a household name, working alongside passionate and experienced colleagues. How to apply If you love the sound of this role and want to work within a friendly and supportive team: click ‘ Apply for this job ’ at the top of this page complete a few questions upload your CV (check it is less than 10MB before uploading) upload a cover letter telling us all about you and sharing three recent achievements in a similar role More important information about the application process: if you need any adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please email [email protected] or phone us on 0344 892 0400 please have a read of Our Privacy Promise More reasons why you'll love it here At Slimming World, we pride ourselves on our caring, performance-orientated culture - a culture based on respect for every individual, mutual trust, genuine warmth, care and kindness. We invest in our people and your personal development is extremely important to us - we aim to support you in achieving your full potential whatever your role in the company. When you join us, you'll also benefit from: a personalised induction and training programme apply to work a nine-day fortnight (earning an extra day off every two weeks) BUPA cover - includes cash back on various healthcare expenses, virtual GP service, access to a 24/7 advice phone line and counselling sessions Life assurance cover option to work from home one day a week Family friendly leave - enhanced pay onsite gym, free exercise classes, cycle to work scheme and discounted treatments at Hair & Beauty subsidised restaurant - serving delicious, homemade food each day regular social events free 12-week Slimming World membership, both in group or online 34 days holiday a year (including bank holidays) Click here to see a glimpse of the work we do and the fun we have working together Thank you and good luck with your application, we can’t wait to hear from you