Social Media Associate at Retail Insights

Retail Insights; City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail insights company in London is seeking a Social Media Associate. This role requires managing social media growth, email marketing, and graphic design. It offers unlimited growth potential and the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment. Candidates should have a bachelor's or master's degree and a UK work permit but no specific experience is required. Join our entrepreneurial team to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Opportunity for travel

Mentorship from high-performing team

Promotional opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have a UK work permit.
• Degree or working towards university qualification required.
• No specific previous work experience needed as training is provided.

Responsibilities

• Manage email marketing and copywriting.
• Grow LinkedIn and leverage content on YouTube.
• Ensure visual identity across all marketing channels.
• Work on website design and SEO activities.
• Measure and improve channel performance metrics.

Skills

Communication skills

Graphic design

Social media management

Analytical skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Google Analytics

SEO tools

Job description

Social Media Associate at Retail Insights

London, United Kingdom

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Social Media Associate.

About us

Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum. We are strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking, connecting more than 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries.

Retail Insights is part of United Media ( https://www.united-media.com/ ) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

As our Social Media Associate you get the unique opportunity to take ownership of our content. You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
• Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
• Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.
• Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.

Your Responsibilities

Responsibilities in this job will vary however, they will be mostly centred around:

• Email marketing: Manage copywriting, graphics, strategy and optimisation for our newsletter, product updates and exclusive promotions.
• Social media growth management: Manage and grow our LinkedIn - our largest channel to interact with our audience - and frequently test new content formats. We would also like you to help us leverage our content on YouTube and launch our Twitter.
• Graphic design: You will be responsible for our visual identity across all of our marketing channels. We will make sure you’re equipped to do this in the best way possible.
• Website: Design, SEO activities, UX optimisation. Work with us on improving and launching new formats that reflect our brand identity.
• Analytics: To continuously measure and improve our performance metrics across channels. You will be working towards challenging targets and KPIs.
• Paid advertising and PPC campaign management.
• Synergy: To collaborate with the other departments to identify content worth sharing with our audience, and also to inform them of our brands’ progress.

What we expect from you

Please note that this job does not require any specific previous work experience as training is provided and we are looking to incorporate candidates across different levels of experience. However, we do require you to have a UK work permit. We also expect candidates to have obtained a bachelors or masters degree, or to be working towards obtaining university qualification.

Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:

• Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do;
• Possess and unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency;
• Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments;
• Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations;
• Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing;
• Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.

Startdate

Flexible

The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Buckingham Gate. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.