Social Media Manager: BATH BASED

About Us - The Social Shepherd

We're a Social-first agency helping global brands, household names, and high-growth scale-ups accelerate their business growth.

Having recently won Best Large Social Agency in the UK and continued growth, we're now looking to take on our next member to enhance our Social team!

Our service offering includes:

• Social
• Paid (Social & Search)
• Creative
• Influencer
• Strategy

We’re a team of 70+ across Bath, London and New York, with big ambitions to continue delivering industry-leading campaigns.

First of all, here are some important things…

Work From Home: we operate a hybrid model where team members come to the office 3 days a week. A lot of our team loves working collaboratively, but they also like the option and balance of working from home.

️ Benefits Package: Our collaboration with Bupa & Perkbox grants you access to a spectrum of health services, discounts, benefits, and perks. And that's not all – enjoy your birthday off and kickstart a healthier commute with our cycle-to-work scheme, all yours upon successfully completing your probationary period.

Flexible hours: some people are early birds, and others like to start later. We allow people to set their own times, with some people starting at 8am and getting to finish up earlier! We trust our team to get their work done on their schedule.

❤️ We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability status. We want to support diverse and inclusive work environments and are actively looking for people who share our values.

Role

As a Social Media Manager, you’ll lead a team of Social Media Executives to lead our client's organic social strategy, content and community.

As well as delivering Social Strategies and leading the channel management of our clients brands, it’s your role to nurture and lead a team to ensure we’re delivering the highest quality output possible whilst enhancing our relationships with our clients.

Team Structure:

You’ll report to our Social Media Director.

You’ll have 1 Social Media Executive that will report to you.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the social media content plans and strategy whilst constantly optimising content to achieve the absolute best results for clients, taking into account performance across different channels.
• Line managing 1 Social Media Executive who’ll have a number of clients, that will work on the day-to-day of each client.
• Typically, you’ll be working across 2-4 clients.
• Approving all pieces of content that your team produces.
• Support on reports for clients. Provide in-depth analysis and strategic guidance to ensure we continue to develop our client's brands MoM.
• To support new business pitches. Delivering social strategies and then pitching them (alongside our New Business team) to brands who are looking to work with us.
• Ensuring your team is happy!

Requirements

• 3+ years of social media experience is required. Agency experience is preferred but not essential.
• You want to continue building a career in Social and see yourself growing within a fast-growth agency.
• You are an enthusiastic & passionate person who genuinely cares about your work and wants to do your best.
• You enjoy being creative.
• You'll have strong organisational skills.
• Curious and adaptable: it’s a fast-moving industry, and social advertising is even more so, products change and adapt weekly, and you must be happy with keeping up to date with changes and learning about how they may impact our output.

Salary

£32,000 to £37,500 depending on skillset & experience.