Social Media Manager

The role

We Are looking for a Social Media Manager to join a well established team to work on an exciting roster of FMCG and consumer brands at We Are Social to come up with exciting social content.

Who We Are

We Are Social is a global socially-led creative agency with unrivalled social media expertise. With 1,300 people in 19 offices spanning four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Pepsi, Meta and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date, from breaking into the metaverse to smashing records on TikTok. 

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity 

Do you spend hours of your day on TikTok, IG Reels or YouTube Shorts?

Want to create award-winning work for some of the most iconic global brands of all time?

Do you want to work for an agency at the cutting edge of Social Media Trends?

We Are looking for a Social Media Manager to join a well established team to work on an exciting roster of FMCG and consumer brands at We Are Social to come up with exciting social content. You’ll be a platform whizz with a deep knowledge of social best practices and your ideas will connect brands within communities and culture – not just adding to the noise, but building and creating real connections that are acknowledged and celebrated by the client.

Requirements

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Successfully been a day-to-day content lead where you are ideating, proactively seeking approvals, creating, editing, refining, and iterating content that has resulted in high engagement and created viral moments within communities.
• Managed publication of long, medium, and reactive content calendars that have successfully leveraged key trending moments.
• Supported the creation of content strategies and playbooks that have been successfully adopted to ensure that content best practices are followed and implemented.
• Management of a team who have delivered high quality content, at pace and has been recognised for doing so by the client and internal teams.
• You will have been on shoots where you have been able to support the capture of social first content that has then been utilised and proven successful when reviewing content performance 

What Else Are We Looking For?

• You will be able to take briefs from ideation and insight through to creation with ease and confidence 
• Presenting to clients and internal teams on your content ideas with strategic insights, trends, and data, that have then been adopted.
• You will have skills from copywriting and editing copy to shooting TikToks and making memes.

Benefits

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2023.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?