Senior Social Media ManagerLondonCurrys London Campus at WaterlooPermanentFull TimeGrade 5
The Senior Social Media Manager will take on the responsibility of owning the organic social strategy across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook & YouTube (plus new growth channels), with the goal of elevating us to new heights & delivering real step-change growth. This role will sit under the Head of Social & PR at Currys and will share responsibilities on strategy, budgets & day-to-day, but will have lots of autonomy.
Role overview
As part of this role, you’ll be responsible for:
- Leading on executing the organic Social strategy at Currys – across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook & X, alongside any new channels we may venture into (e.g. YouTube)
- Managing our amazing in-house team (4 people) – putting growth, development & job satisfaction first
- Managing our 2 external agencies, with a particular focus on day-to-day & campaign
- Days will vary, as is the nature of Social, with some being heavily focused on creative & execution, with others involving presenting to senior stakeholders & taking people on your journey for how Social should look for Currys
- Managing several channels & projects across Social, ensuring the overall smooth running of each – some projects will be owned by yourself, with others owned by a member of the team & overseen by yourself
- Liaising with other stakeholders within the business, with the Planning teams, senior management, stores & PR team the most regular contact
- Semi-regular, ad-hoc travel to stores & other shoot locations at short notice, to ensure we’re being as reactive as we need to be with our content
- Managing the Social budget for the year, as well as budget from suppliers that comes in through additional activity requests
You will need:
- Experience managing organic social media strategy for a brand or agency
- Experience creating high-performing organic video & static content for brands (TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook & YouTube)
- Demonstratable evidence of transformation success within a brand or agency e.g. exponential growth in followers or engagement, new channel launch & success
- Experience managing & developing a team, ideally within social space
- Experience managing agencies, budgets and having to make choices between spend options
- Strong communication skills – able to present to & persuade senior stakeholders on vision, with an ability to unlock more funding for an area
- Can-do attitude – the world of Social is fast-paced and ever-changing, so you need to be able to problem solve & find solutions to producing & executing content
- Strong relationship-building & people skills
We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. You’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:
- Holiday benefits – 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement)
- Private medical insurance
- Life Assurance
- Access to discretionary bonus
- Hybrid working; our primary Currys Campus is at Waterloo (WeWork)
Every voice has a space at our table and we’re committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email careers@currys.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help.
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