Global Social Media Lead - 3 Month Fixed Term Contract

London, UK (Hybrid)

£55K/yr – £60K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the social strategy across Europe, turning a bold multi-year plan into scalable content, AI-enabled workflows and youth-driven engagement that drives brand growth.

  • Growth strategy: Position social as a strategic growth channel and define the audience, platforms and success metrics.
  • Content operating model: Redesign planning, creation and distribution to enable faster, agile output with cultural relevance.
  • AI enabled production: Turn ideation, localisation and reporting into practical workflows that improve quality and speed.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build a bold, actionable global social strategy for FY28, setting out where Trainline should play, how we should show up and what success looks like across markets.
  • Review Trainline’s existing social media strategy, channel approach and content performance to identify opportunities to improve effectiveness, efficiency and audience engagement.
  • Develop clear recommendations for evolving our social strategy over the next 12 to 24 months, positioning social as a strategic growth channel across Europe.
  • Redesign how we plan, create and distribute social-first content, recommending ways of working that enable faster, more agile and culturally relevant output.
  • Create a scalable content operating model that helps teams increase impact without increasing complexity.
  • Identify where AI can transform ideation, production, localisation and reporting, turning those opportunities into practical workflows that improve quality, speed and efficiency.
  • Define how Trainline can become more relevant with younger audiences by identifying platform behaviours, creator opportunities and emerging trends that should shape our future approach.
  • Provide guidance to the Social Media Executive, influence senior stakeholders across Brand, Creative and Marketing, and bring fresh external perspective that challenges existing thinking.
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Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices. We bring together millions of routes, fares and journey times from more than 270 rail and coach carriers across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That's £5.9 billion in ticket sales annually, and +125 million visits to our apps and websites each month from users seamlessly booking and managing their journeys through our website or mobile app and via our B2B partner channels. We offer our customers the best price for their journey and smart, real-time travel information on the go. Our smart technology and data-driven features help our customers to stay one step ahead. We aim to make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible. The environment is fundamental to our purpose - through our technology, and data, we make rail travel easier, inspiring people to make travel choices that are better for the environment.

Founded in 1997
London, England, GBR
1.2K employees (121 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
24.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$92.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
69.1%
Direct
27.9%
Referral
2.2%
Social
0.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
76 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
7 years
Median Tenure
0.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$275.3M
Last Raise
$275.3M
Series Unknown, 20 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2006
    Series Unknown • $275.3M

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