Senior Social Media Executive

Summary

As Uprated continues to expand, we are looking to welcome a Senior Social Media Executive to join our talented team and work with our growing list of clients, many of which are household names. If you love all things in the world of social, this is an exciting opportunity to lead, create and deliver outstanding campaigns for our clients.

You'll be responsible for leading the creation of exceptional organic social content for our clients. Our clients predominantly sit in the ecommerce, food and drink, beauty, travel and outdoors sectors, so you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and engage with a wide range of audiences.

You will develop a deep understanding of our clients, their products, marketing activities, competition and industries, being able to translate client requirements and develop social strategies to achieve exceptional results.

This role is very much client-facing, you will be joining client meetings including briefs, status calls and daily contact via emails. 

Reporting to the agency's senior team, this is a fast-paced environment that is both demanding and fulfilling. Uprated will also depend on you to give your accounts and projects direction, whilst maintaining a clear strategy to achieve the very best outcome for our clients.

We offer a relaxed office environment in the centre of Bournemouth, minutes from the beach, bars and restaurants.. 

This role will offer flexible options for splitting time between the office and working remotely. Whilst we anticipate this to be a full-time position, we are also open to flexible working days and hours for the right candidate.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

This role includes working in our digital marketing team within the agency and will include taking responsibility for the following activities:

• Create and deliver outstanding social media campaigns that provide exceptional results for our clients, using data-driven decisions to optimise performance and ensure that all activity meets client targets.
• Manage and oversee social media content, including copywriting, editing, publishing and sharing engaging content for clients, working to a set tone of voice and aligned to brand guidelines, whilst tailoring content to suit different channels.
• Work with our creative team to create best-in-class social content and asset creation for highly impactful campaigns.
• Lead campaign ideation sessions, bringing fresh creative ideas for content and social strategy.
• Deliver outstanding account management across client campaigns and projects, maintaining regular contact with key stakeholders, delivering exceptional customer service.
• Undertake detailed audience research to inform organic and paid campaigns.
• Deliver strategic content planning via organic calendars for clients.
• Manage community engagement and moderation, including answering questions, responding to comments and engaging with audiences.
• Identify relevant creators and influencers to work with as part of client campaigns, managing associated campaigns budgets.
• Create and deliver meaningful social reporting and insights, ensuring you are rigorously tracking the performance of all content and enabling this data to be fed into future channel strategies.
• Lead and manage internal agency social channels and campaigns in partnership with our Client Services Manager, helping to grow followers, raise awareness and deliver new enquiries.
• Support with the development of presentations, proposals, briefs and pitches outlining opportunities with new and existing clients.
• Monitor changes in the marketplace to ensure a strong understanding of industry news, trends and best practices across organic social channels

This is an outline Job Description and employees are expected to undertake other duties as directed.

Required Skills & Experience

If you have the following skills, we'd love to hear from you.

• At least 3 years of strong and demonstrable experience (working either agency or client-side) of creating brilliant social media content for brands and managing all key social media channels including; Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
• Experience with video editing software such as CapCut or Premiere Pro, to produce engaging short-form content for social media
• Strong interest in social media, able to spot new trends early and adapt them into relevant, brand-aligned content.
• Strong experience in client communications and client management, including presentations, meetings, updates and calls and client outings.
• Exceptional copywriting and communication skills. You must be able to convey key messages and craft original and engaging content with creative copy, aligning to client tone of voice and brand guidelines.
• Excellent design skills with strong experience of tools such as Canva, Photoshop or similar content creation platforms.
• Proven experience in community management across multiple social channels.
• Experience influencer marketing, including planning, identification, communication and campaign delivery.
• Extensive hands-on experience in using publishing, monitoring and reporting tools such as Sprout Social and native reporting such as Facebook Business Suite.
• Experience in report creation and delivery
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, prioritise, solve problems and deliver results.
• Experience with agency project management processes, software and tools.
• Capacity to juggle multiple campaigns effectively
• Proactive work ethic & highly motivated.
• Passion for all things digital and harbouring a real interest in social media platform changes and news, keeping up to date with ever-changing industry trends.

Bonus Points

Not essential, but nice to have…

• Experience of managing and developing team members
• Experience in proposal/deck/pitch contribution and delivery.

What's In It For You?

• A salary between £30,000 and £35,000 depending on experience
• A competitive holiday allowance that increases with each year of employment
• Your birthday off (on top of your normal annual leave)
• An opportunity to develop & grow your skills within an expert team
• Opportunities to work remotely as part of your role
• Opportunities to attend leading digital marketing conferences or virtual conferences
• Competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
• Coffees/teas (when in the office)
• Contributory pension scheme

Next Steps…

Sounds good? To apply for this position, submit your details on LinkedIn or email your CV and a covering message to

There is no deadline for applicants, we're keen to hire the right person and willing to take our time to find them.

Sorry but no agencies please.