Senior Social Media Manager, Europe

Where: Hybrid - Accessible to London for occasional meetings

Type: Full time salaried role

Join Us at Social Element!

Founded 23 years ago, we're a leading global and independent full-service social media agency on a mission to Make Social Better for everyone.

To us, better social means creating unskippable content, making scrolling safer for everyone, creating stronger connections with each other and making a huge impact.

Now, we're on the lookout for a Senior Social Media Manager to join our Social, Europe team.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Social Media Manager, you'll be an arbiter of excellence and growth across client social media accounts, internal communications and external brand building. Using your exceptional copywriting, conceptual thinking, and content ideation skills, you'll craft content strategies and social guidelines to ensure engaging and fresh client content. With one eye always on upcoming trends, you will take charge of the creative direction of our client work.

Working directly with clients, you will deal comfortably with timelines, overlapping projects and pitching new workstreams to new and existing clients.

Alongside managing and developing your team of social experts, you'll have the opportunity to shape the social media presence of our clients creatively and strategically. You'll lead the charge in crafting engaging content that resonates with audiences while staying agile and responsive to the fast-paced world of social media trends.

• Line management of Social Media Managers and Community Leads across the team including; objective setting, feeding progress reports, delegating tasks as well as manage, motivate and develop to create a high performing team
• Oversight and sign off of multiple workstreams across a range of clients
• Strategic and creative input to internal comms and brand promotion
• Proactive client development: support the Client Partner in identifying opportunities for upselling
• Responsible for oversight of concepting and delivery of planned content for the month ahead, as well as leading team in concepting reactive content
• Oversee and sign off copywriting for all assets that go out on the client’s social channels
• Responsible for ensuring any local market assets to legal for approval and ensuring you have all relevant client sign off before scheduling content
• Sign off and oversee management of up-to-date and accurate content calendar for all social platforms across clients
• Recommend trends or cultural moments for the brand to activate around potential concepts these could be
• Ensure all content is scheduled accurately and in a timely manner
• Work with the engagement team to pull out social listening which would be relevant to monthly content planning
• Able to jump on trends quickly and in line with business objectives
• Work closely with your wider agency team to ensure content is aligned to the social strategy and business objectives
• Attend status meetings with the client to ensure content is reviewed and signed off as effectively as possible
• Contribute to monthly and quarterly reporting - briefing team to provide useful insights for both client and internally
• Work with creative and design leads to ensure high and low level social assets are created in line with the visual strategy for the client.
• Support the Head of Social with wider team tasks when required

About You

You are a dynamic and creative professional who thrives in the fast-paced world of social media. With a keen awareness of the latest trends, you effortlessly blend creativity with strategic insight to deliver impactful content. Your proactive and can-do attitude drives teams to achieve excellence, while your organisational skills ensure every project runs smoothly from concept to execution.

• Outstanding copywriting skills
• Socially savvy: you will be native on all social platforms (particularly TikTok and Instagram), and be able to jump on the right trends for your client in a timely manner
• Fantastic communication skills: you will be able to work with your wider agency team to ensure content ladders up to client objectives as well as senior stakeholders at different seniority levels
• Reporting experience: you will be able to oversee the performance of content, feed insight from what you see on the platforms and tell clear stories back to the agency and clients
• A TikTok and Instagram native - always in touch with the latest trends
• Ability to lead concepting of reactive and proactive content
• Confident in using overseeing and using insight tools such as Sprinklr
• Adept at pitching for new clients, ideating, contributing to strategic and editorial development
• Confident presentation skills in front of client and within external events
• Fantastic attention to detail
• A curious, proactive approach with a can-do attitude
• A team oriented professional, with the ability to work independently and self-motivated
• Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to juggle several tasks at once
• Can demonstrate strong collaboration skills with internal teams

Requirements

• Extensive experience in social media management
• Experience working for multi-market clients preferred, but not required
• Up-to-date and current knowledge of social platforms and social media trends
• Wide range of experience using and creating content for TikTok and Instagram
• Solid experience with scheduling tools and insight tools
• Experience managing and developing a team

Benefits

Remote/Flexible working (occasional travel)

️ 33 days of holiday (including the bank holidays)

Birthday off

Annual Occasion Day off for an important event (eg moving house, getting married)

️ 1 Volunteer day off

Flexible Fridays (Working half day)

Eye care: Contributions towards eye tests and glasses

Enhanced sick pay: 4 weeks full pay, 4 weeks half pay

Enhanced family friendly policies

Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support

️ Access to our discounts website

The Hiring Process

The hiring process for this position will be made up of the following stages:

️ Culture + Connect Interview with one of the talent team

Skills + Experience Interview with two members of the social team

???? Leading For Success with the Global Head of Talent and Chief People Officer

Assignment Phase with Head of Social and another member of the senior leadership team.

Our Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Commitment

We welcome applications from diverse and under-represented groups regardless of their background.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so even if you feel you don’t fulfill all the requirements, we encourage you to still apply — we’d love to hear from you!

We value having divergent thinkers who bring various experiences and viewpoints to the table at Social Element. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply.

We are also able to make reasonable adjustments throughout the full recruitment process so we invite you to identify any additional support that you may require to ensure you are supported throughout the full process.

How To Apply ️

If all this sounds like you, simply upload your CV/resume and complete the application form. While a cover letter is optional, we welcome any other way for you to share what draws you and motivates you about this role and the agency.

We encourage candidates to express their interest and motivation in the format that best showcases their talents. Here are a few ideas, please feel free to explore any method that suits you best (even if not included in the list of examples)

***If you would prefer to submit your application in a different format, please feel free to get in touch with us at talent_tse@thesocialelement.agency and we will be happy to assist you in any way we can. We will be unable to process applications via this inbox.

We are excited to receive your application! ️