Head of Social

M&C Saatchi Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

Head Of Social

We have a new and exciting opening to join our award-winning team. You'll lead our social media department with a view to grow and expand this offering within an integrated comms environment where social, PR, influencer, content, experiential and sponsorship all come together.

About Us

For the past 20 years, M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment has connected brands to consumers through the things people love, making brands culturally relevant through passions. We are the passions agency. We forge enduring connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture.

Our clients include adidas, Ballantine’s, Barclaycard, Barclays, Jameson, Dreams, Heineken, Kia, Old El Paso, UEFA, The LEGO Group, Lynx, The IOC, Red Bull, UNICEF, Absolut, and many more. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, New York, and Johannesburg, a team of specialists deliver the agency’s core disciplines across sport, entertainment, and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation, experiential production, and social media.

Our work has been awarded across the board, including seventh-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards. The agency is driven by two principles: First, the philosophy of ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’, which has been the M&C Saatchi (UK) Group’s mantra since birth: simple messages are the most powerful, making Brutal Simplicity of Thought more valid today than ever before. Second, ‘Diversity of Thought’, the belief that similar people think similar thoughts, which leads to homogenous work; therefore, diversity of thought is a creative imperative.

About the Role:

We have a new exciting opening to join our award-winning team, leading our social media department with a view to grow and expand within an integrated comms environment where social, PR, influencer, content, experiential, and sponsorship all come together.

What you'll be:

1. An experienced and inspirational leader who can spearhead a department and drive cultural and economic growth.
2. A senior social media professional with unrivaled contacts across the Sport, Entertainment, and Lifestyle spaces and over 10 years' experience in the social and digital space.
3. Experience working with household brand names, rights holders, and entities.
4. A real networker - someone with an ear to the ground, one step ahead on new business opportunities who thrives on bringing opportunities into the business and being a big part of our social growth.
5. Commercially astute with the skill and drive to push the department forwards.
6. Culturally attuned - knowledgeable and passionate about our sectors and passion spaces.

Key Skills:

1. Thought Leadership: Be a visionary social leader with a perspective on the future of the space and how we can be at the forefront.
2. Social Media Strategy: Oversee development and execution of comprehensive best-in-class social strategies that align with client goals.
3. Campaign Management: Plan and execute social media campaigns across global, EMEA, and local UK work, leading a team to ensure best-in-class campaigns and output.
4. Content Planning: Oversee the creation of standout social content, leading production and studio outputs.
5. Audience Engagement: Foster meaningful engagement and respond and react to keep on track with campaign KPIs.
6. Analytics and Reporting: Ensure we have cutting-edge measurement and evaluation frameworks that continually keep us pushing forwards on defining success across the industry.
7. Crisis Management: Able to provide trusted high-level counsel to social and comms teams.
8. Team Leadership: Manage a team of social media professionals, including content creators, community managers, strategists, and creators, setting a culture for the team and department.
9. Departmental Growth: Grow the social offer to maximize opportunities with new and existing clients. Be adept at procuring new leads and pitching new business.

This is a hybrid role working 3 days a week minimum in our London office.

The M&C Saatchi Group UK has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry, and society. As part of this, M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity, and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

All employee information is kept confidential according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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