Senior Social Media Executive

Softcat; Marlow; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider in the UK seeks a Senior Social Media Executive to lead impactful campaigns across platforms. You'll manage content scheduling, oversee community engagement, and analyze metrics to optimize performance. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in social media management and excellent communication skills. The position offers flexible work arrangements including hybrid options, helping you balance work and life. If you're creative and strategic, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

Hybrid working

Flexible working hours

Support for neurodiversity

Qualifications

• Strong experience in social media management, ideally in a B2B environment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent knowledge of social media platforms and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Plan, create, and schedule content across social media platforms.
• Manage the social media calendar and oversee day-to-day activities.
• Monitor performance and analyze metrics for campaign improvement.

Skills

Social media management

Creative thinking

Copywriting

Project management

Tools

Oktopost

Sprout Social

Hootsuite

GA4

Adobe Suite

Wrike

Asana

Monday

Job description

Are you ready to lead impactful social media campaigns and shape a brand's voice across multiple platforms?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment where strategy, insight, and collaboration drive results?

Join our Marketing team

The story of Softcat is one driven by an unprecedented ‘people first' culture that celebrates talent, champions potential, and delivers customer‑centric technology solutions that support business ambitions.

The marketing function sits at the heart of Softcat's future market expansion and is accountable for partner marketing, sales enablement, communications, events, promotions, digital, campaign and performance marketing.

Success. The Softcat Way.

At Softcat we want to support you at every stage of your career. Whether that means stepping up into a more senior role, taking on more responsibilities in your current role or broadening your skills and experiences in a different department, we encourage all our employees to develop and grow with us.

Turn insight and creativity into social media results

As a Senior Social Media Executive, you will be an integral member of the Digital Marketing Team. You will be responsible for managing and delivering our social media strategy across multiple platforms, ensuring our brand voice and content is consistent and engaging for our audiences.

As Senior Social Media Executive, you'll be responsible for:

• Plan, create, and schedule content across LinkedIn, Instagram, and other relevant platforms.
• Manage the central social media calendar, keeping stakeholders informed and engaged.
• Oversee day‑to‑day social media activity, including community engagement and employee advocacy.
• Monitor performance, analyse metrics, and report on campaign effectiveness.
• Collaborate with internal teams and stay up to date with trends to amplify campaigns and optimise performance.

We'd love you to have

• Strong experience in social media management within a business environment, ideally B2B, with excellent knowledge of platforms, analytics, and paid social campaigns.
• Creative thinker and problem solver with excellent copywriting and communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines, and work with senior stakeholders across the business.
• Familiarity with social media management tools (e.g., Oktopost, Sprout Social, Hootsuite), analytics platforms including GA4, and the Adobe Suite, including basic video editing.
• Experience using project management tools (e.g., Wrike, Asana, Monday) to streamline workflows and campaigns.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically yourself as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.