Social Media Manager - Food
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Role: Social Media Manager
Location: Kingston — onsite 3 days/week
About the role:
You’re a social native who knows how to connect FMCG/foods brands with the communities that love them. As the cultural navigator for 3 global sweet-treat food brands, you’ll translate consumer insight into social storytelling that entertains and inspires. You think ahead, take initiative to test fresh approaches, and stay on top of trends.
You’ll take briefs and trends and turn them into compelling social concepts, guide content creation with our content creator and wider creative team, monitor performance and pull the right levers to continually improve and optimise. You collaborate closely with internal teams and clients, and are a confident social expert colleagues and clients can lean on for guidance.
What you will be doing:
Listening and engagement
- Respond to consumer comments and questions in brand tone to drive engagement and brand love
- Provide on-brand replies to influencer and consumer @mentions
- Monitor trends, community conversations and creator content to spot opportunities for entertaining brand responses
Content
- Monitor feeds for timely, culturally relevant insertion points for the brand
- Identify new influencer partners
- Lead identification and fast orchestration of reactive opportunities
- Write copy for organic and paid posts
- Collaborate with content creators on concepts and lead content briefs
- Ensure all content follows platform best practice and is platform-native
- Propose fresh content ideas to increase community engagement
- Use social listening to understand community conversations and translate insights into content
Planning and client partnership
- Receive and interrogate client briefs and support brief development for creative teams and partners
- Help craft tone-of-voice guidance, FAQs and copy for brand channels
- Support development of social channel strategy workstreams
- Plan and produce social content calendars
- Present content ideas and social strategy to clients
- Track and report on content performance and analytics
What you need to be great in this role:
- At least 3 years’ experience in agency or client-side brand marketing through social media
- A well-rounded creative who is always innovating and initiating
- Attuned to cultural zeitgeist and able to spot opportunities to tell brand stories
- Level-headed, strategic thinker
- Entrepreneurial and proactive — able to spot content opportunities that help clients meet business goals
- Enthusiastic about integrating Gen AI tools and curious about new innovations
- Strong creative flair, excellent written communication and copywriting skills
- Nuanced, practical knowledge of social platforms and how brands can use them for commercial results
- Keen interest in digital trends and popular culture
- Highly organised, comfortable under pressure and able to manage multiple priorities
Req ID: 16137
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