Digital & Social Media Manager – Middle East Experience

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave plus bank holidays

Extra day off for your birthday

Company pension scheme

Agency Christmas shutdown

Quarterly agency events and socials

Opportunity to travel

Private healthcare and activeLifestyle

Personal development budget

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited in London is seeking a dynamic Digital & Social Media Specialist to support a Middle East client, turning audience insights into effective campaigns.

This hybrid role involves content creation, platform-specific publishing, and leveraging Arabic culture to inform recommendations. You will build strong client relationships and plan live event content.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years’ experience executing digital and social media plans.
• Experience delivering digital campaigns for Middle East audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to plan real-time content for events.
• Arabic culture understanding.
• Experience in client relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Support development of insight-driven digital and social strategies.
• Develop content and campaigns across platform-specific channels.
• Inform content and campaigns with Middle Eastern cultural insights.
• Build trusted client relationships through clear communication.
• Plan and deliver real-time content for live events.
• Track performance and suggest improvements.
• Support client work during weekends, remotely or onsite.

Skills

Digital & social media strategy

Content creation & copywriting

Arabic culture & Middle East audiences

Client relationship management

Project coordination

Job description

About the Role

The role will predominantly work for a client based in the Middle East, supporting the development and delivery of digital and social strategies, content plans and campaigns. It involves turning audience and cultural insights into effective communications, with a strong understanding of Arabic culture and Middle Eastern audiences. The position sits within an independent sports marketing agency that works with leading sports organisations and has deep expertise across the Olympic Movement.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of insight-driven digital and social media strategies.
• Develop content and campaigns, overseeing the creation, editing, curation and publishing of high-quality, platform-specific content.
• Apply a strong understanding of Middle Eastern cultures, audiences and behaviours to inform content, campaigns and client recommendations.
• Build trusted client relationships through confident, clear and effective written and verbal communication, including project calls and presentations.
• Plan and deliver impactful real-time content, including support for live sporting events and reactive moments.
• Stay ahead of platform developments, cultural trends and emerging best practice, bringing innovative ideas and new approaches to client work.
• Track content and campaign performance, explain the results and recommend improvements.
• Be available to support client work, live events and real-time content delivery at weekends, both remotely and onsite.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• A deep love of sport, including following it, caring about it and being excited by the sports, athletes and stories within the Olympic Movement.
• Passion for creating content and taking pride in the finished result.
• Curiosity, including exploring new techniques, asking questions and paying attention to what makes great content work.
• Initiative, including getting stuck in, finding solutions and taking responsibility for moving work forward.
• An appetite to learn, including welcoming feedback and actively working on improving craft.
• Middle Eastern experience, including delivering digital and social media work for clients or audiences in the Middle East.
• 2-4 years’ experience in executing digital and social media plans and campaigns.
• Experience in client relationship management and leading project discussions.
• Confident with long and short-form copywriting, with the ability to adapt across platforms and audiences.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Strong understanding of Arabic culture.
• Proven experience in digital and social media.

Preferred Skills

• Sport governing body or institution experience.
• Arabic speaking.

Workplace

• 2 days per week in the London office (Tuesday and Thursday).
• 3 days per week working from home (Monday, Wednesday and Friday).

Salary

• £36,000 Salary

Benefits & Perks

• 25 days leave plus bank holidays.
• An extra day off for your birthday.
• Company pension scheme.
• Agency Christmas shutdown.
• Quarterly agency events and socials.
• Opportunity to travel.
• Private healthcare and active lifestyle budget.
• Personal development budget.

About the Company

Based in London, it works with some of the world’s leading sports organisations and brings deep expertise across the Olympic Movement.