Social Media Assistant

Merry Hill Group; High Peak; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Merry Hill Group is seeking a Social Media Assistant to enhance its marketing department. This role involves content creation, scheduling across platforms, and data analytics while collaborating with various teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in social media management, a keen eye for detail, and creativity, particularly in the UK sports fashion space. Join us to grow your skills and career in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Opportunities for career advancement

Training for personal and professional development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in managing social media accounts.
• Attention to detail.
• Creative mindset.
• Good knowledge of UK sports fashion.
• Experience in data analysis preferred.
• Experience in video editing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Schedule weekly social content across platforms.
• Brief in Instagram stories and posts.
• Attend campaign photoshoots to capture video content.
• Edit video content for social channels and YouTube.
• Conduct weekly data analysis using social media tools.

Skills

Attention to detail

Creative mindset

Good knowledge of UK sports fashion

Data analysis

Video editing

Job description

The Opportunity

As our Social Media Assistant, you will join our ever-growing marketing department and help to run our social media platforms. You will report into our Social Media Manager and be involved in brand marketing, PR and seasonal Footasylum campaigns.

Being our Social Media Assistant has a range of differing responsibilities including creating content to sit across different platforms, scheduling content across all platforms, attending weekly photoshoots, calendar planning, data analysis, influencer outreach and communication and supporting on the overarching social strategy.

The Team

The entertainment marketing team functions as a part of the larger Marketing department and we work extremely closely with Creative, Ecommerce and the Studio team to bring creators and influencers to the table.

Reporting into the Social Media Manager you will have weekly meetings to discuss ongoing workload and goal setting. You will also have the opportunity for quarterly meetings to discuss longer term strategy and goal setting.

Our goal is to create an environment in which you can learn new skills, gain experience in existing ones and improve your knowledge of the consumer continually. You will be supported in your journey and will be pushed to take on new challenges and expand your knowledge.

What you will do:

• You will schedule in weekly social content across platforms.
• You will brief in Instagram stories and post.
• You will look after social calendar for the team with key social dates and trade moments.
• You will create weekly video content at the studio for social channels.
• You will edit weekly video edits from our long form YouTube uploads.
• You will edit social shot campaign content using Cap Cut & Premier Pro.
• You will attend campaign photoshoots to capture video and BTS content.
• You will align with brand team on all campaign launches and schedule in sufficient support.
• You will assist with influencer outreach and communications.
• You will maintain and implement TOV documentation and strategy.
• You will support in planning with social media deliverables.
• You will do weekly data analysis including use of social media tools (Dash Hudson) and web analysis (Google Analytics).

What you will need

• Experience in managing social media accounts.
• Attention to detail.
• Creative mindset.
• Good knowledge of UK sports fashion.
• Experience in data analysis would be preferred.
• Experience in video editing would be preferred.

Why Footasylum?
We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building services to customers and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

Recruitment Process
We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note, this is not a remote role, and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Rochdale.