Social Media Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£40K/yr – £45K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and execute Barworks social media across all venues, turning live dining moments into on-brand content, while shaping strategy, publishing, and audience engagement to drive awareness and traffic.

  • Social leadership: plan and own channel strategy across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Facebook, with paid campaigns aligned to marketing goals.
  • Content engine: lead hands-on photography/videography, captions, edits, and library management to reflect each venue's personality and events.
  • Community and optimization: publish daily, engage audiences, monitor trends, and refine targeting to improve awareness, engagement, and event promotion.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the social media strategy across all Barworks venues owning channel planning across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and Facebook
  • Create and manage clear content calendars aligned to marketing campaigns, events and and key trading periods
  • Ensure each venue’s social presence reflects its individual personality while remaining on-brand.
  • Work closely with the leadership to align social activity with wider marketing priorities
  • Lead hands-on content creation including photography and video across venues.
  • Capture high-quality food, drink, service and atmosphere content in live environments.
  • Write high performing captions and copy aligned to brand tone and audience
  • Manage content libraries and ensure assets are organised and reusable
  • Work with venue teams to identify moments worth capturing and sharing.
  • Edit and prepare content for platform-specific formats (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn etc.).
  • Maintain a consistent creative standard across all channels
  • Brief and coordinate freelance creators where required
  • Own day-to-day publishing across social platforms.
  • Actively manage comments, messages and community engagement.
  • Maintain and evolve Barworks’ social tone of voice.
  • Identify trends and cultural moments that are relevant to the brand and audiences
  • Escalate customer or reputational issues where needed
  • Plan, build and manage paid social campaigns across Meta and relevant platforms in collaboration with Marketing management
  • Support campaign objectives including awareness, engagement, traffic and event promotion
  • Build and refine audience targeting including local, interest-based and retargeting audiences

Requirements

  • Proven experience of at least 2 years managing social media for hospitality, food & beverage or lifestyle brands.
  • Strong hands-on content creation skills, particularly photography and video.
  • Hands-on experience with paid social campaigns, particularly Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok and good understanding of audience targeting, campaign setup and optimisation
  • Organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple venues and priorities.
  • Commercially aware with a focus on driving real-world results with both creative and performance metrics
  • Experience: paid social media and content creation: 2 years (required)

Preferred

  • Experience using AI-enabled platforms to enhance planning, streamline content production, and generate clearer performance insight.

Benefits

  • Bereavement leave
  • Company pension
  • Discounted or free food
  • Employee discount
  • Sick pay
  • Work from home
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Barworks

Barworks was founded in 1995 with the opening of our first bar Two Floors in Soho. Since then, the group has gone from strength to strength & has been expanding steadily.Our approach is and has always been to treat each venue individually. We do not have a generic approach to design, but instead like to factor in and amplify existing features and tie in with the local area. The common theme that runs throughout all of our venues is the desire to create a modern hub for people to work, socialise, eat & ultimately have a great time in a relaxed, welcoming & comfortable environment.

82 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
328
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.9%
Direct
35.8%
Referral
13.7%
Social
4.4%
Paid
1.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~82