Social Media Account Executive

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own social content coordination and publishing for a fast moving team, balancing calendars, approvals, and on-the-ground creation with a focus on timely execution and documented learnings.

  • Social Scheduling: Plan, publish, and monitor posts across key platforms in line with calendars.
  • Content Ops & Approvals: Manage approvals, track deadlines, and keep content records organized.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Schedule and publish all social media content across relevant platforms in line with agreed content calendars.
  • Ensure all posts are accurate, correctly tagged, and meet brand and platform guidelines.
  • Monitor scheduled content to ensure timely execution and flag any issues or changes.
  • Act as the primary contact for administrative matters related to social media accounts.
  • Maintain organised records of content plans, approvals, and published posts.
  • Support the team with day-to-day account coordination, ensuring smooth workflow and communication.
  • Assist in managing approvals and ensuring deadlines are met.
  • Contribute to creative brainstorming sessions, bringing forward ideas inspired by current trends, platform updates, and cultural moments.
  • Stay up to date with social media trends, formats, and best practices to inform content creation.
  • Support the development of engaging, relevant, and performance driven content ideas.

Requirements

  • Experience in social media management, content scheduling, or digital marketing (agency or in-house).
  • Strong understanding of major social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn).
  • Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
  • Confident in managing multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Awareness of social media trends, culture, and emerging formats.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

  • Detail-oriented and highly organised
  • Proactive and eager to learn
  • Creative thinker with a passion for social media
  • Reliable and responsive
  • Collaborative team player

Benefits

  • Time off that works for you — 25 days' holiday + bank holidays, a paid Wellbeing Day, flexible bank holidays to honour cultural or religious observances, and the option to buy or carry over up to 5 extra days.
  • Flexibility & lifestyle — Smart Working with up to 40% from home, and after 12 months, the option to work from abroad for up to 90 days a year.
  • Family & life milestones — Enhanced family friendly leave, 3 extra days for your wedding/honeymoon, and an Employee Assistance Programme whenever you need support.
  • Financial perks — Pension scheme, Corporate Medical Cash Plan, electric car salary sacrifice scheme, and tax-efficient payroll giving to your favourite charities.
  • Growth & recognition — Funding for professional qualifications, monthly Employee of the Month awards (£250 bonus), and referral bonuses of up to £1,500.
  • Community & wellbeing — Regular Wellbeing Workshops, 30+ Wellbeing Champions, a paid Volunteer Day, and an online perks platform with discounts on top brands, days out, and gym memberships.
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Inspired Thinking Group (ITG)

ITG is the world’s leading AI-enabled, agile content company.We support major brands across the globe to use AI to make their marketing operations more effective — turning big ideas into Halo content that’s delivered better, faster, and at a lower cost. Our four pillars define how our clients get the most out of our solutions, through a blended model including: Capture: Leveraging AI and AR to more efficiently capture content for personalization at scale.Create: Using our proprietary, AI-enabled Halo Intelligence product to inform how we create channel-specific, custom content at scale that drives growth and brand consistency.Automate: From briefs, workflows and DAM to content versioning, translations, dynamic metatagging, and more — a full suite of AI-powered tools delivered via our Gartner-leading Content Marketing Platform, Storyteq®.Integrate: Unlock hidden efficiencies and greater content personalization by unifying your data sources, marketing technologies, and AI in one simplified marketing ecosystem. ITG has a global footprint of 2,000+ employees located in 22 offices around the world. Our culture of kindness ensures that we are combining human understanding with AI-powered innovation in everything we do, every day. Together, we simplify the complicated, automate the tedious, and create the beautiful.

Founded in 2009
London, England, GBR
1.8K employees (635 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
14.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.2%
Direct
45.5%
Referral
7.1%
Social
4.7%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
280 (16% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$4.6M
Last Raise
$4.6M
Series Unknown, 16 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2010
    Series Unknown • $4.6M