Senior Manager, Content (Maternity Cover - 13 months) in Leeds

What You Will Do

• Lead the execution of multi-channel content strategies for major client accounts, ensuring alignment with brand, audience, and commercial goals.
• Serve as a senior content consultant to client stakeholders, helping them navigate complex challenges across search, social, and emerging platforms with confidence and clarity.
• Work closely within the Content Studio and alongside Organic, Paid, Influencer, PR, and Creative teams to deliver cohesive, integrated campaigns across multiple channels and markets.
• Guide teams from strategic brief through to execution, ensuring ideas are ambitious, well-shaped, and delivered to a consistently high standard.
• Own and evolve content delivery models, workflows, and operational standards to ensure quality, consistency, and scalability across the department.
• Use advanced analytics and performance insight to refine strategies, demonstrate ROI, and tell a clear story of content effectiveness to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Identify emerging trends, tools, and opportunities across content, AI-driven discovery, and platform behaviour embedding innovation into team approaches and client work.
• Oversee large-scale or complex initiatives such as international content strategies, multilingual campaigns, or cross-market rollouts.
• Support the Content Director by mentoring senior specialists and managers, raising the strategic and creative bar across the team and contributing to a strong culture of collaboration and craft.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading content and channel strategy at a senior level, with responsibility for major accounts or complex programmes of work.
• Proven ability to operate as a trusted senior advisor to clients, confidently engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional storytelling and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas, data, and briefs into clear, compelling content direction.
• Strong experience delivering integrated, audience-first content across editorial, video, social, and platform-native formats.
• Deep understanding of content performance and evolving search and discovery behaviours, including platform-led search and SERP evolution.
• Advanced experience using analytics and insight tools such as Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SparkToro, and platform-native data to shape strategy and demonstrate impact.
• Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on problem solving in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
• A strong track record of cross-functional leadership, aligning content strategy with broader marketing, brand, and commercial objectives.
• Experience overseeing content audits, gap analyses, and large-scale strategic initiatives across multiple channels or markets.
• Demonstrated interest in innovation, experimentation, and improving how content teams operate from tools and processes, to formats and frameworks.

Maternity Cover

This is a 13 month contract starting at the beginning of April. There will be a one month hand over period and then a further 12 months. The contract will end end of May 2027.

Diversity & Inclusion Journey

Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment. We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else. We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals. If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Contract
• Job function: Marketing
• Industries: Marketing Services