Social Media Executive

VML Enterprise Solutions; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

VML Enterprise Solutions is seeking a Social Media Executive to assist a high-profile lingerie and swimwear retailer with their social media strategy. This role includes executing daily brand social activities, supporting strategic initiatives, and managing content calendars across platforms like Meta and TikTok. Join a dynamic team to help enhance client engagement through innovative social media practices.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus scheme

Training opportunities

Competitive pension

Medical insurance

Life assurance

Family friendly policies

Discounts with retailers

Qualifications

• Good understanding of working with social media and platforms.
• Strong desire to learn and grow in digital marketing.
• Confident and persuasive.

Responsibilities

• Execute day-to-day brand social across key platforms.
• Support with management of the Content Calendar.
• Create weekly and monthly insight reports on social activity.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Presentation skills

Negotiation skills

Social media understanding

Education

Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Communications or Business

Job description

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

The opportunity:

We are looking for a superstar Social Media Executive to primarily support a world-renowned lingerie and swimwear retailer with their social media strategy and day to day execution, to create a best-in-class social experience. You will also have the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding and knowledge about social media best practices, and look for inspiring, innovative and creative ways for consumers to connect and make purchases via social platforms across our other clients in the portfolio too.

What you’ll be doing:

For the Primary Client:

• Execute Day-to-Day: Working closely alongside Client social team to execute on the day to day brand social across key platforms including Meta, TikTok, YouTube
• Social Strategy: Support Senior Social Strategist and Brand Team to expand current social strategy initiative to enable growth
• Organisation: Support with the management of the Content Calendar for Social as well as well as content ideation and conception.
• Influencer & Content: work closely with the Brand Team to support with Influencer Collaborations and other content outreach initiatives.
• Paid Social: work alongside Client social team to strategise, support and execute on Paid Social activities across Meta, TikTok and YouTube.
• Reporting, Insight and Analytics: Create weekly and monthly insight reports on Social activity across all live platforms and distribute as required.

Additional Asks outside of Primary Client:

• Supporting Head of Social and the wider team with Social Strategy engagements for clients, working closely with key client stakeholders to discover, define, deliver and drive social engagements to help accelerate their business and improve ROI
• Supporting the wider team with social media execution activity across clients, including calendar management, reporting and optimisation
• Support wider team by contributing to key RFPs, client proposals and pitches.
• Work closely with the Head of Social to ensure a holistic approach to all planning and activity, supporting with outputs where necessary.

What we want from you:

• Good understanding of working with social media, social platforms and social strategy.
• Good organisational and time management skills to be able to support with the execution of multiple simultaneous project deadlines.
• Confident and persuasive, with good presentation and negotiation skills.
• Strong desire to learn and grow, actively acquiring further knowledge about social media, digital and commerce, and being able to apply this expertise to provide a best in class experience to clients.

If you know some of this, even better:

• Degree qualified in Marketing, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Communications or Business
• Experience of working with global brands from a digital perspective,
• Previous experience working in an agency
• Previous experience with Paid Social and/or Performance Marketing is desirable.

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.

Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

• Connect Meaningfully
• Include Purposefully

Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That’s why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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