Social Media Executive

Crawley, Surrey, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the visual storytelling for Rentokil Initial on social, turning corporate stories into design-led assets and driving end-to-end content creation from concept to publish across key platforms.

  • Content and design ownership: produce on-brand social assets, templates, and copy aligned to group tone.
  • Channel execution: schedule, publish, and optimize posts on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and more while monitoring engagement.
  • Collaboration and campaigns: source assets with Digital, Corporate Comms, HR, and Sustainability; evolve templates and guidelines for campaigns.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Content planning, graphic design and creation
  • Design high-quality, on-brand social assets, including static graphics, carousels, simple infographics, quote tiles, thumbnails and short-form video assets.
  • Use Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud or similar tools to create polished, publish-ready content that follows brand templates and design guidelines.
  • Turn corporate stories, ESG updates, innovation content, employer brand activity and leadership messages into clear, engaging social-first visuals.
  • Develop reusable templates and content series that markets can adapt while staying on brand.
  • Draft clear social copy that supports the visual asset and reflects the group tone of voice.
  • Repurpose press releases, case studies, blogs and internal stories into design-led social formats.
  • Success will be measured by stronger design quality, fewer reworks, greater consistency, stronger engagement with visual formats and increased reuse of Group templates and assets.
  • Schedule, publish and quality-check posts across LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and other agreed platforms.
  • Check image crops, thumbnails, captions, links and platform-specific formatting before posts go live.