Social Media Manager - Foods in Kingston upon Thames

Location: Kingston, England, United Kingdom (Minimum of 2 days in the office per week)

About the Role: Working in partnership with the Foods Content, Media and Commerce (CMC) team, the Social Media Manager (midweight level) will take ownership and be the driving force behind Pot Noodle across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X, alongside supporting paid execution across an exciting new brand launching into the UK. You will play a key role in supporting new product launches and developing and growing the communities of our brands through impactful "social first" content and community management to meet key brand objectives. You will own relationships with the brand manager and stakeholders as the day‐to‐day touchpoint and be responsible for interrogating and positively challenging asks to arrive at the best solutions that are fit for social and platform. You will also be the expert they turn to for advice on social ideas and influencer briefs.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Execute the UK social media strategy for Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and emerging platforms as required for Pot Noodle.
• Own the development of the day‐to‐day content calendar with an emphasis on strategic forward planning.
• Run weekly connects with your brand managers to keep up to date with upcoming marketing activities and campaigns.
• Work closely with and brief internal content creators, designers, external agencies, and influencers to create content for the channels.
• Undertake daily community management—responding to comments, DMs and tagged content while identifying usable UGC, gifting opportunities and content inspiration.
• Seek out and champion social partnerships and giveaways with other like‐minded brands.
• Feed into influencer plans and opportunities presented by the influencer agency of choice.
• Maintain reporting dashboards for your brands each month, providing ad‐hoc snapshot reports to brand managers.
• Work alongside Customer Care and Corporate Comms to identify the type and magnitude of social crises.
• Keep brand managers up to date with the latest social‐listening data collected through native in‐app scrolling and trend dashboards.
• Use the broader OLIVER social team for knowledge sharing and advice.

What You Need To Be Great In This Role:

• 3‐4 years of experience directly managing social media channels.
• A passion for memes, food and all things social media.
• Expertise in managing multiple stakeholders and their requests.
• Ambitious, highly organised, and attentive to detail.
• Proactive and able to work autonomously.
• Native video editing skills for Instagram Reels, TikTok or other editing tools.
• Experience with social media publishing and analytics through native platforms.

Our Values Shape Everything We Do:

• Be ambitious to succeed.
• Be imaginative to push boundaries.
• Be inspirational to do groundbreaking work.
• Be always learning and listening to understand.
• Be results‐focused to exceed expectations.
• Be actively pro‐inclusive and anti‐racist across our community, clients and creations.

Equal Opportunity Employment: OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.