Virtual Social Media Manager

Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. Role: Social Media Manager
Kingston, England, United Kingdom ( Minimum of 2 days in the office per week )
Working in partnership with the Foods Content, Media and Commerce (CMC) team, the Social Media Manager (midweight level) will take ownership and be the driving force behind and with a focus on Pot Noodle across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X, alongside supporting paid execution across an exciting new brand launching into the UK.
You’ll play a key role in supporting across new product launches and developing and growing the communities of our brands through impactful 'social first' content and community management to meet key brand objectives. You’ll be fully owning relationships with the brand manager and stakeholders as the day-to-day touchpoint and be responsible for interrogating and positively challenging asks to come up with the best solutions that are fit for social and platform. You’ll also be the expert they turn to for advice on social ideas and influencer briefs so there’s a lot of opportunity to feed into wider marketing activities and establish yourself as a trusted voice for the brands.
Working with the Senior Social Media Manager, you will execute the UK social media strategy for Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and emerging platforms as required for Pot Noodle.
Owning the development of the day-to-day content calendar with an emphasis on strategic forward planning to ensure that content is prepped and scheduled on a quarterly basis.
Owning and running weekly connects with your brand managers to keep up to date with upcoming marketing activities and campaigns to ensure your content calendar is always up to date with the latest developments.
Working closely with and brief internal content creators, designers, external agencies, and influencers to create content for the channels, as well as roll up your sleeves to edit footage into engaging Reels when needed.
Undertaking daily community management, responding to comments, DMs and tagged content while keeping an eye out for usable UGC, gifting opportunities and content inspiration.
Seeking out and championing social partnerships and giveaway with other like-minded brands, flagging opportunities to the brand managers and managing the relationship with the partner directly to bring it to life on social.
Feeding into influencer plans and opportunities presented by the influencer agency of choice, offering up suggestions based on your social expertise and notable interactions you’ve spotted within the communities.
You’ll be responsible for keeping the reporting dashboards for your brands up to date each month, providing ad-hoc snapshot reports to your brand managers that highlight key performance metrics, rich insights and actionable recommendations.
Working alongside the Customer Care team and Corporate Comms, you will be responsible for identifying the type and magnitude of social crises and highlighting social considerations when the wider team is planning a strategic response.
You’ll be responsible for keeping brand managers up to date with the latest social-listening data, collected through native in-app scrolling and trend dashboards, as well as working with a data analyst on social-listening dashboards. In turn, working on the execution of these insights into data-driven ideas.
3-4 years of experience directly managing social media channels.
~ A passion for memes, food and of course, all things social media.
~ Native video editing skills for Instagram Reels, TikTok or other video editing tools like CapCut, InShot etc.
~ Experience with social media publishing and analytics through native platforms.

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