Social Media Manager: Mars Secondment

London (Hybrid Working) 

A benchmarked salary between £28,000 to £34,000 based on your level within our progression framework.  You can read more about our approach to performance, salary, and progression here.

👋 Who we are
Born Social is a global social media agency that brings social-first thinking to the brands of tomorrow. 

For the last 10 years, we’ve helped brands navigate and harness the chaos of social bringing method to the madness.   From household names like Guinness, Dettol, and Marks & Spencer to the next generation of big brands like Nando's, Fever-Tree, and Mission Tea.  

We're an ambitious team of almost 100 people and not stopping there.  We're growing fast and so we're looking for another Social Media Manager to join our team.

We are looking for a passionate Social Media Manager to work specifically on our brilliant long term client, Mars Wrigley's Confectionery.

You will work with them exclusively, managing two brands - Extra & Celebrations - and will form part of the internal Mars 'brand content hub' team. This means you essentially sit between brand-side and agency-side, giving you the best of both worlds!

As a Social Media Manager within the BCC hub, you will be responsible for supporting the Mars Brand & Content Manager as the social lead, to complete social toolkits which cover both campaigns and everyday relevance across the key brand objectives. You’ll collaborate with the European Brand Council, managing stakeholders across different markets to review content, feedback on best practise, as well as then briefing creative output.

There is some really exciting work coming up and we know you'll love working with Mars as much as we do.

✏️ What you'll be doing:

• Content ideation: Using insights about the brand’s audiences on social, plus your expertise of platforms and the social landscape, to come up with social-first concepts to live across the brand’s platforms for both everyday relevance and campaigns.
• Copywriting: Coming up with captions for the assets that live on the brand’s social platforms, ensuring this represents best practise social-first copy and the brand’s tone of voice.
• Creative briefing: Working with a Creative team, overseeing their output development and reviewing this against the brand strategy and best practise social media output.
• Reactive content ideation: Proactively social-listening, looking out for key moments in culture or within your target audience, and leading on developing the concepts to quickly react.
• Stakeholder management: Working with the Mars stakeholders across both regional and local teams to advise on best practise social media management, as well as ensuring content provided meets their brand needs, plus supporting on any key brand challenges.
• Interagency collaboration: Working with other key agencies across Media, Creative, and PR to ensure output across different channels is consistent across brand strategy.
  

👀 Who we're looking for:

• A creative thinker & writer: you're able to work both independently and collaboratively on ideation and copy for content across social.
  
• You love brands and social media: you're fascinated by brands, how they market themselves, and use social media to do this. You are naturally curious about the developments of the digital world and excited by its potential.
  
• A brilliant communicator: you pride yourself on your ability to build relationships and use these to facilitate best in class collaboration and output.
  
• Pride in your work: we treat our client's brands as our own and are meticulous about our approach. You will take real pride in what you deliver and always strive for perfection
  
• Real drive and ambition: you'll be constantly adapting to the ever-growing world of social, and we need people who have the mindset of growth as well as the ambition to get there
  
• You'll have two or more years of experience working with social media (agency-side preferable)
  
  

✌️ Our values:

Our values aim to pinpoint the magic ingredients for us at our best. We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. 

See Challenge as Opportunity... is about our attitude and to be very clear, this is not a value of optimism, nor is it about loving every challenge.

Say It Simply... is how we communicate. Think of the basic rules of communication - honest, clear, confident.

Do What You Say... is the crux of our reputation and longevity. When you join Born Social, our trust is fully given. It is yours to lose. 

Make Each Other Better... is about our culture of collaboration and commitment to development. We are only as good as the people around us so we all take responsibility for developing each other, as well as ourselves.

Consciously Contribute...is bigger than all the others.  It ensures we grow right. It broadens our focus beyond Born Social and cements our commitment to doing what’s just, not what’s easy or immediately self-serving.  

💙 Everyone's welcome:

We celebrate different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds here at Born Social. As an equal opportunities employer, we believe in the power of an inclusive and representative team. We welcome applications regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, family, or parental status. We don’t simply comply with the Equality Act, we go further and take pride in building a stronger and more creative work environment, committed to inclusion, diversity, and representation.