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About the role

In your role as Associate Social Director, you will have the opportunity work across content strategy, paid media amplification, community management and campaign reporting. You will partner with our Social Director and Head of Content & Partnerships to help lead projects together with a team of social executives.

You’ll work in an exciting and award-winning team for some of the world’s most recognised brands, playing a key role in EssenceMediacom’s most future-focused and fastest-growing team. We are looking for someone who is analytical, and a social first problem solver who can lead by example building relationships with key platform partners.

What will make you stand out  

• Manage and mentor an ambitious and dynamic team of three social media executives. 
• Work collaboratively with the wider social and influencer team, acting as an advocate for social-first opportunities across our client portfolio.
• Run internal workshops to upskill and maintain high levels of social media skills across the team.
• Maintain a positive feedback loop, helping to elevate your team’s client-facing presentations and analytical skills when planning content, community management and reporting.
• Build relationships and maintain transparent communications with your key clients, including managing weekly and monthly WIPs as required
• Develop unique and meaningful insights for clients, framing actioning next steps and presenting learnings in confident and considered formats.
• Maintain effective workflows to support commercial growth and effectiveness.
• Develop unique and meaningful insights for clients, framing actioning next steps and presenting learnings in confident and considered formats.
• Drive gold-standard social work across a portfolio of clients in the commerce, FMCG, luxury automotive, film and entertainment categories
• Oversee your team's day-to-day output and manage internal/external deliverables
• Maintain efficiencies across BAU social and campaigns
• Develop unique and meaningful insights for clients, framing actioning next steps and presenting learnings in confident and considered formats
• Act as the point of contact and escalation for key social media clients.
• Empower diverse thinking and support your direct reports in achieving personal career goals.
• Look to maintain and evolve content templates, identifying opportunities to streamline workflows for yourself and the wider team.
• Empower diverse thinking and support your direct reports in achieving personal career goals.
• Utilise communications from key platform partners (Meta, TikTok, etc) to help educate clients and elevate the work we do for them. 
• Stay up to date with industry trends, product and platform updates, helping to integrate new capabilities into our day-to-day.
• Manage effective workflows across social listening, content strategy, social content production and post-campaign reporting.

More about you 

• At least 5 years' experience as a Social Media Manager or Associate Director at a social or creative agency, in-house at a brand or publisher.
• Demonstrated experience managing people, ideally within a social media or content team.
• Strong understanding of key social media platforms including Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and Snapchat.
• An excellent copywriter and editor, who can deliver clear direction and feedback to junior team members.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to add a social-first lens to insights and data.
• An organised and detailed individual with proven time management skills.
• An empathetic team player, who’s curious to collaborate and share knowledge.

What we can offer you

• Our ‘Strive’ flexible working policy
• Learning and Development Academy
• WPP Global Employee Discounts
• Reconnect Program (work in our offices overseas)
• Industry leading parental leave
• Birthday leave, Summer days, Culture initiatives across the year
• DE&I program

Apply now and send your CV via the link!