Senior Social & Content Executive

eight&four; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agency is seeking a Senior Social Media Executive to manage client accounts and deliver engaging content across various platforms. This hybrid role combines project management, content creation, and collaboration with creative teams to meet client objectives. You'll play a key role in a vibrant team, contributing to high-quality and innovative social campaigns while enjoying a supportive work environment with ample benefits.

Benefits

Private Healthcare & Life Insurance

25 Days+ Holiday

Team Minibreaks in the UK and abroad

Regular Socials

Open, Engaged & Inspirational Culture

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of social media best practices and trends.
• Excellent attention to detail and project ownership.
• Strong client-facing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage social accounts and ensure high-quality content output.
• Collaborate with creative teams to deliver social content.
• Report on content performance and client metrics.

Skills

Project Management

Social Media Strategy

Content Creation

Client Management

Collaboration

Education

Experience in social media or content-related marketing role

Tools

Sprout Social

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Social Media Executive with a passion for content, knowledge of social media best practice, and skills in account and project management.

You'll sit within our Social Partner team, which is responsible for delivering high-quality, innovative social content for our clients, through collaborating with our Creative, Production and Performance teams. We are client-facing and responsible for the running of projects, with a key role in ensuring we produce successful and exciting content across platforms. Our team works with a large section of the agency and has a key role in the content we produce for our clients, making this an exciting position to learn and make an impact.

Core Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of social accounts, ensuring client objectives are met and social output is high quality

• Delivery of social content assets e.g. monthly content calendars, content projects, in collaboration with creative and specialist teams, managing multiple components with great attention to detail

• Project management and collaboration – working with a wide variety of team members to ensure work is delivered on time and resource is planned to deliver requirements

• Ideation and brainstorming

• Brief-writing – translating client needs into actionable briefs

• Reporting on content performance – gathering learnings and benchmarking metrics to present to clients and the rest of the team, and setting clear actions to implement

• Managing light touch/lo-fi content capture (e.g. TikTok creation)

• Community management – including reactive and proactive responses, sentiment tracking, etc.

• Content scheduling – using tools like Sprout Social and natively

• Supporting Social Partner team with campaign planning, proposals, and social audits and analysis when required

Must-Haves

• Knowledge of social best practice across key platforms including Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest

• Excellent project management skills, strong attention to detail, and ability to take ownership over projects and deadlines

• Understanding of what makes great social content, and awareness of trends and developments in the social space

• A creative mindset and confidence expressing ideas

• A collaborative attitude, ability to build relationships, and experience working with creative teams

• Professional client etiquette across email, calls and face-to-face

• Ability to develop strong client-facing plans and reports

• Previous experience in a social media or content-related marketing role

Nice-to-Haves

• Knowledge of additional social platforms such as Reddit, Discord, Twitch, etc.

• Previous experience in an agency environment, or if not experience of managing multiple stakeholders and being adaptable to changing priorities

• Experience working with social media management tools

• Awareness of paid social media

• Experience of working with influencers

• Awareness or involvement in creation of lo-fi Reels/TikToks

This is a hybrid role, based in our London office 1-2 days per week. You must be available to attend client meetings and events in London and beyond on a regular basis.

• Named in Campaign Magazine's Best Places to Work 7 years running
• Remote working predominantly - 2 day in the office per week
• Private Healthcare & Life Insurance, 25 Days+ Holiday, Team Minibreaks in the UK and abroad, Regular Socials
• Culture: Open, Engaged & Inspirational Culture