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Who We Are At Bash

We are a team of leaders, bold thinkers and friends, and we’re on a mission to create remarkable omni-channel experiences for our customers.

We believe that by being Bold, Accountable, Simple and Human, our values will lead us forward, keeping us real, connected and directed.

By leveraging the power of technology and exceptional talent, we are building products that bring the physical and digital world together to create communities that prosper. This journey requires grit, ambition and teamwork as we transform SA retail for the better.

And we’re only just getting started. Now is the time to jump onboard.

We are seeking a dynamic and creative Social Media Strategist to develop, implement, and manage innovative social media strategies that drive engagement, enhance brand awareness, and support business objectives. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of social media trends, content strategies, analytics, and audience engagement across multiple platforms.

What You’ll Do

Marketing as a Service Growth & Execution

• Drive 30% growth in Marketing as a Service (MaaS) campaigns by optimising content strategy and execution for brands on Bash.
• Successfully manage content execution for partner brands, ensuring brand consistency, engagement, and measurable ROI.
• Develop data-driven content strategies to improve ad performance and customer engagement across paid and organic campaigns.

Social Channel Leadership & Viral Content

• Maintain Bash’s position as the fastest-growing social platform in its category.
• Deliver 3-5 viral mechanics monthly to drive engagement, user-generated content, and follower growth.
• Leverage platform trends and audience insights to sustain high engagement and visibility across social channels.

Tactical Brand & Product Campaigns

• Conceptualise and execute campaigns supporting brand objectives, product launches, and seasonal moments.
• Collaborate with Brand and Product teams to align social media activations with overall marketing strategies.
• Deliver measurable increases in conversion rates through product-led content strategies.

Influencer & Creator Management

• Identify, brief, and manage influencers/content creators to ensure effective brand storytelling and campaign execution.
• Track and optimise influencer performance to drive engagement and conversions in influencer-led campaigns.
• Build long-term relationships with key creators for advocacy and ongoing partnerships.

Community Management & Engagement

• Oversee community manager, ensuring timely responses, tone consistency, and best practices for audience engagement.
• Maintain high response rates and positive sentiment scores across channels.
• Implement strategies to foster a strong, loyal brand community.

Visual Merchandising & Seasonal Campaign Support

• Collaborate with the Visual Merchandising team to roll out seasonal campaigns and ad hoc activations across social channels.
• Optimise campaign assets for social media, enhancing visibility and engagement.
• Provide real-time support for events, ensuring maximum reach and impact.

Performance Tracking & Continuous Optimisation

• Experience with performance ads for brand awareness across Meta and Tiktok.
• Develop and maintain a social media performance dashboard to track growth, engagement, and conversion metrics.
• Provide monthly reports with actionable insights to improve content strategy and campaign performance.
• Test and refine strategies consistently to improve key metrics, ensuring sustained growth and innovation.
• Budget management and reporting.

What You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in social media management and 3 years of experience in social strategy.
• Proven track record delivering excellent social media content for brands.
• Obsession with social media and digital content; tuned into platform changes, trends and news.
• Experience in online reputation management practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Hootsuite, Sprout, Data Eye Q, Meltwater and Brandseye).
• Experience with project management tools and real-time digital comms platforms (Monday, Slack etc).
• Copywriting experience and ability to vet creative based on the audience and channel.
• Knowledge of retail and visual merchandising (VM) industry trends.
• An understanding of visual storytelling across fashion & lifestyle categories.
• Competitive analysis capabilities.
• Expertise in target audience insights and persona development.

Skills You Already Have

• Expertise in analytics and reporting.
• Understanding of key metrics and KPIs.
• Experience with A/B testing and optimisation.
• Familiarity with CRM integration.

JOINING THE BASH TEAM

We offer our teams the opportunity to work in a hybrid way through our flexible, digital working model. We empower our people to choose where they would like to do their best work, with the tools they need to get there but we also encourage our teams to travel so we can also make magic happen face to face. Our offices are a vibe, which doesn’t hurt. They are decked out to make collaboration easy and help our team create lasting connections with each other. We bring teams together for planning, celebration, ideation and onboarding, and more.

BASH PERKS

Our perks are supercharged by our intangible benefits, like the optionality that comes with building a hyper growth business, being surrounded by the best talent in the biz and building great products that wow our customers and drive growth for our country.

Best of the Best - The wealth of talent we have will surprise + inspire you.

Security within a startup - The best of both worlds. TFG's buy-in lets us invest in the people and initiatives we believe in.

Agency and Optionality - Use the ambition and collective force of our talent to drive your career in the direction you dream.

Connection and Friendship - We make sure you connect, laugh and have fun with the team. Play hard, work hard vibes.

Top $$ - The best people, in the right roles, earning at the top tier.

Your Time - We’ve got generous paid holiday, wellbeing leave and even Birthday leave for you to enjoy when you need it.

Exclusive Shopping Discount - Save when you shop across over 500 brands in-store and on bash.com.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Marketing and Sales
• Industries
• Retail