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Salary- £35k to £45k
- Manchester
Walker and Sloan are proud to be working with a well-known marketing agency, as they are keen to bring on a talented Social Media Manager/ Senior Social Media Manager on a full time basis in their amazing offices in Manchester.
The Role:
As Social Media Specialist within the agencies Social Media team, you’ll play a vital role in pushing our service line forward – both by ensuring all existing client strategies are delivered to the highest standard and by helping structure and deliver pitches to win new business.
You’ll work directly alongside and support the Head of Content & Social Media by monitoring day-to-day execution of client strategies to check that each project has a robust and considered social strategy underpinned by clear aims, KPIs and a tactical delivery plan to hit objectives. You’ll be the project manager for multiple client projects, across a range of industries and social channels, and be required to self-sufficiently manage your time as priorities and deliverables change. Within your projects, you’ll have visibility of the profitability of client projects and be required to think commercially about how projects should best be delivered – on budget and on time.
As part of the pitch team for many new projects, you’ll contribute to identifying new business opportunities for the department, leading chemistry meetings, compiling pitch decks and winning new work. You will be a go-to individual in the Social Media industry with a known personal brand, due to your online content sharing as well as public speaking at relevant conferences and events.
As a senior member of the service line, you’ll take a lead in mentoring and developing our Social Media Executives by overseeing their output and keeping team members accountable to our high-quality ‘First Time Right’ approach. You will research and analyse industry trends and publications daily; distilling key information to the Social Media team in order to foster an ethos of continual research and an up-to-date working knowledge of social disciplines and trends.
By embodying the agency values through and through, your role will fly the flag for the importance of Social Media in our clients’ marketing mix and ensure that the wider marketing team benefits from your growth-focused and limitless attitude.
