Head of Social and Digital – Corporate Channels

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive Tesco’s Corporate Social & Digital strategy, aligning content creation, channels, and team capability to deliver high-impact corporate storytelling across Planet, Health, Community and Innovation.

  • Lead a in-house content team delivering end-to-end video and imagery from concept to editing.
  • Define Instagram and LinkedIn strategies to grow reach, with technology-enabled targeting and personalisation.
  • Oversee content quality, production techniques, external agencies, and governance to ensure accuracy, security, and impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Setting and implementing Tesco’s Corporate Social & Digital strategy across all relevant channels.
  • Shaping the look and feel and execution of content to ensure it is of the highest standard to lead the way for corporate content across Planet, Health, Community and Innovation.
  • Embedding and leading a team of in-house content creation specialists who can deliver high quality video and imagery end to end – from concept and messaging, to storyboarding and producing to editing and refining.
  • Guide the team with knowledge and expertise in latest and emerging production techniques.
  • Developing and leading Tesco’s strategy for corporate Instagram channel to deliver accelerated growth of the channel, embed leading edge technology to ensure targeting, personalisation and impact.
  • Ensuring Tesco’s corporate website is up to date, accurate, engaging and digitally secure.
  • Setting strategy and ambition for Tesco’s LinkedIn channel alongside People Team to drive fame and positive sentiment for Tesco as an employer and for the work the business does with a particular focus on Group Comms campaign priorities.
  • Recruiting, developing and leading a high-performing team, giving them opportunities to be their best.
  • Overseeing the monitoring and analysis of output and continuously evaluating performance and process to ensure that the team is as effective and efficient as possible.
  • Managing external agencies to deliver the best work and ensuring contracts are delivering value and excellence against the department’s objectives.
  • Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
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Tesco

One of the world’s largest retailers of consumer goods from food to fashion. Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day in our stores and online is at the heart of everything we do.Founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen using the £30 he received on leaving the Royal Flying Corp, we’ve come a long way from his small market stall in East London. Today over 400,000 colleagues work across our stores, office, distribution and customer engagement centres in the UK, Europe and Asia. Share our passion for the people, products and places that make us great, and we can offer the right support to develop your skills. If you’re looking for the perfect work-life balance, a collaborative culture and flexible ways of working, find your opportunity to get on at www.tesco-careers.com

Founded in 1919
Welwyn Garden City, England, GBR
89K employees (1,642 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
246.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
56.7%
Direct
30.8%
Referral
8.1%
Social
3.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~88.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$611.6M
Last Raise
$585.5M
Post IPO Debt, 8 months ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $585.5M
  • Jul 2009
    Post IPO Equity • $26.2M

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