Social Media Team Lead (12 month FTC)

Nestlé SA; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé is looking for a Social Media Team Lead for a 12-month secondment. The ideal candidate will lead a dynamic team, driving engagement across platforms while innovating new strategies. Excellent benefits and flexible working arrangements are offered, with a starting date in August 2025.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

12 flexible days on top of holiday entitlement

2 paid volunteering days

Bonus potential

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in a dynamic environment.
• Passionate about social media.
• Great communicator with stakeholder collaboration expertise.

Responsibilities

• Coach and inspire a team on social media strategies.
• Monitor and optimize social media performance.
• Drive innovation and develop new social media tools.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Social Media Strategy

Job description

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Social Media Team Lead (12 month Secondment - August 2025 start)

Gatwick – flexible hybrid working

Salary up to £37,000-£43,000 depending on experience + potential bonus + generous pension scheme + 12 flexible days on top of holiday entitlement + 2 paid volunteering days + other fantastic benefits!

Join Our Team as a Social Media Team Lead!

Are you a natural leader with a passion for social media? Do you want to help create engaging consumer experiences across our household brands? If so, we want to hear from you!

We’re seeking a Social Media Team Lead to join our Consumer Experience Team here at Nestlé UK&I. Based in Crawley, you’ll be leading our friendly and creative Social Media team, crafting engaging strategies and campaigns across various social media platforms.

What You’ll Do:

• Coach and inspire a talented team to create best-in-class paid, organic, and influencer social media strategies that really drive results.
• Lead our Influencer & Creator agenda, encouraging your team to utilise relevant tools and follow Nestlé processes.
• Support your team to develop a thorough understanding of paid social media and work with our media agency/social media partners to deliver standout campaigns.
• Drive your team to monitor and optimise social media performance through listening and reporting, tracking performance against our goals.
• Stay in the loop with the latest trends and consumer insights, providing recommendations and thought leadership to the wider business.
• Oversee content creation & briefing, ensuring this adheres to best practices and is relevant and engaging.
• Drive innovation, explore new technologies and test, learn & develop new social media tools and platforms.
• Collaborate & build strong relationships with internal teams and external agencies.
• Manage HR processes including recruitment and budget management.
• Collaborate with the York Social Media Team Lead to shape the future of social media at Nestlé UK&I and foster connection between both teams.

Who You Are:

• You have experience leading teams in a dynamic environment and thrive when collaborating with stakeholders.
• You’re a great communicator and understand how your work impacts the bigger picture.
• You’re passionate about social media and excited to make a difference to our brands!

If you’re ready to take on this exciting challenge and lead a fantastic team, we’d love to hear from you!

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 10th July 2025. This is a full-time temporary position but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business.We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!