Role Description
As a Social Manager, you will play an important role in providing strategic support across our key verticals: Luxury, Food & Drink, Beauty & Wellbeing and Pharmaceuticals. Based in the UK, you'll lead social strategy, community management and team delivery across the categories, while immersing yourself in the online/digital media world and staying ahead of industry developments.
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Lead social media strategy and community management across our Diamonds, Food & Drink and Pharma accounts, tailoring approaches to each vertical's audience and objectives.
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Lead, mentor and manage social media and community management teams, providing clear direction and quality control across markets.
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Partner with content, creative and paid media teams to develop compelling, platform-native content that drives awareness, consideration and conversion.
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Champion social search and platform best practice, helping brands optimise content for discovery and stay ahead of emerging trends.
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Advise on the role of social content in AI visibility, helping strengthen brand presence and citation within AI-generated answers.
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Own insight and reporting across all verticals - from social listening and competitor benchmarking to campaign analysis - presenting recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
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Set and maintain governance documents, tone of voice guidelines and community response matrices across accounts.
Qualifications
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Significant experience (5+ years) in social media leadership, including managing community management functions and mentoring teams across markets or categories.
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Experience across a number of verticals is preferred; luxury, beauty, food & drink/FMCG, or pharma/healthcare experience would be an advantage, along with comfort managing multiple clients simultaneously.
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A strong understanding of social platforms, their role in publishing, and best-practice content formats for each channel and audience.
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Knowledge of social search is a huge bonus.
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An understanding of the growing role social plays in AI visibility.
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An expert understanding of social reporting and analytics, with the ability to interpret data to shape strategy.
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Experience in both organic and paid social preferred, with the ability to align strategies across paid, organic and web.
Benefits
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25 days of holidays + US bank holidays and your birthday off.
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Christmas Closure - (extra days on top of your holiday allowance)
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A monthly entertainment subscription paid by the company (e.g. Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, etc)
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Access to VDU Eye Tests and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
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Participate in wellness and peer recognition initiatives (e.g. On The Spot Awards and Value Champion Awards).
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LinkedIn Learning β Access to a leading online learning platform, which offers a wide variety of courses including business, creative and technical skills.
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Social Events β Join us for our major annual social events: Spring, Summer, Halloween and Christmas parties, plus many other ad-hoc events.
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WFA policy β work from abroad for up to 4 weeks per year.
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Yearly Calm subscription.