Social Media Manager

The Social Shepherd; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social-first agency in Bath is seeking a Social Media Manager to lead strategy and content for clients. The role involves overseeing social media plans, optimizing content, and nurturing a team to deliver high-quality results. The agency promotes a hybrid work model and values diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and paternity

Health services and discounts via Bupa & Perkbox

Additional day off for your birthday

Cycle-to-work scheme

Flexible hours

Qualifications

• 3+ years of social media experience required.
• Agency experience preferred but not essential.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee social media content plans and strategy.
• Lead point of contact for clients.
• Support new business pitches with social strategies.

Skills

Analytical

Organizational

Communication

Creative

Curiosity

Job description

We're a leading Social-first agency helping global brands, household names, and high-growth scale-ups accelerate their business growth.

Having recently won Best Large Social Agency in the UK and continued growth, we're now looking to take on a Social Media Manager or Senior Social Media Manager!

Our service offering includes: Organic Social, Paid, Creative and Influencer.

We’re a team of 70+ across Bath, London and New York, with big ambitions to continue delivering industry-leading campaigns.

First of all, here are some important things…

Work From Home: We operate a hybrid model where team members come to the office 3 days a week and WFH 2 days a week - although there is the option to work from the office more if you prefer. Our team loves working collaboratively, but also likes the option and balance of working from home.

️ Benefits Package:

• Enhanced maternity and paternity.
• Collaboration with Bupa & Perkbox grants you access to a spectrum of health services, discounts, benefits, and perks.
• Additional day off for your birthday.
• Kickstart a healthier commute with our cycle-to-work scheme.

Flexible hours: Some people are early birds, and others like to start later. We allow people to set their own times, with some people starting at 8am and getting to finish up earlier! We trust our team to get their work done on their schedule.

️ We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status. We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values.

Role

As a (Senior) Social Media Manager, you’ll lead the day-to-day Strategy, Content and Community of your clients, alongside having a Social Media Executive within your pod, and a Social Media Director.

As well as delivering Social strategies and leading the channel management of our clients brands, it’s your role to nurture and lead a team to ensure we’re delivering the highest quality output possible whilst enhancing our relationships with our clients.

Team Structure:

You’ll report to our Social Media Director.

You’ll have 1-2x Social Media Executives that’ll report to you.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the social media content plans and strategy whilst constantly optimising content to achieve the absolute best results for clients, taking into account performance across different channels.
• Analysing the performance of content themes, pillars and channels to deliver continuous optimisations to the ongoing content strategy.
• Approving all pieces of content that your team produces.
• Lead point of contact for your clients, alongside the Social Media Director and Client Services Account Manager.
• Support on reports for clients. Provide in-depth analysis and strategic guidance to ensure we continue to develop our clients' brands' MoM.
• To support new business pitches. Delivering social strategies and then pitching them (alongside our New Business team) to brands who are looking to work with us.

Requirements

• 3+ years of social media experience are required.
• Agency experience is preferred but not essential.
• You want to continue building a career in Social and see yourself growing within a fast-growth agency.
• You are an enthusiastic & passionate person who genuinely cares about your work and wants to do your best.
• You enjoy being creative, whilst also being highly analytical.
• You'll have strong organisational and communication skills.
• Curious and adaptable: it’s a fast-moving industry, and social advertising is even more so; social changes and adapts weekly, and you must have the desire to continuously keep up to date with changes and learning about how they may impact our strategies.

£34,000 to £42,000: depending on experience.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Sales

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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