Social Media Manager

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world‑class award‑winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Molson Coors, Valeo Foods UK, Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard. In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated its 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.

The Role

We are seeking a dynamic and highly creative Social Media Manager to take full ownership of our social content strategy and execution across key platforms like Instagram and TikTok for multiple brands. This role demands a proactive individual adept at ideating, planning, and scheduling engaging content – from reactive, in‑the‑moment opportunities to comprehensive monthly and quarterly calendars – ensuring our channels consistently thrive by identifying content gaps and forward planning. You’ll operate with a keen ‘newsroom’ mentality, consistently tapping into cultural moments and emerging trends, acting as a creative champion to inspire bold, impactful work. A data‑driven approach is essential, as you’ll analyse content performance, leveraging insights surfaced from our community management team regarding customer sentiment to inform strategy and communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and clients.

The ideal candidate will be a confident communicator, negotiator, and presenter, resilient, adaptable, and ready to thrive in a fast‑paced, high‑pressure environment, collaborating seamlessly with community managers and creatives. While experience with influencer/creator campaigns is preferred, your core strength will lie in driving compelling social narratives and engagement.

Responsibilities

• Senior Client Partner – Build and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders across multiple functions, becoming indispensable to their business. Anticipate their needs, advise with authority, and be their go‑to for strategic counsel.
• Content Architect – Taking full ownership of content strategy, ideation, planning, and scheduling across Instagram and TikTok for multiple brands, ensuring channel growth by proactively identifying gaps and forward planning from reactive to quarterly calendars.
• Cultural Pulse & Creative Spark – Operating with a keen ‘newsroom’ mentality, staying ahead of cultural moments and emerging trends, and acting as a creative champion to inspire bold, impactful social work.
• Insight Driver – Leveraging a data‑driven approach to analyse content performance, translating customer sentiment and community insights into actionable strategies that inform and optimise our social presence.
• Collaborative Communicator – Confidently negotiating, presenting, and fostering seamless relationships with internal teams, stakeholders, and clients, ensuring unified efforts with community managers and creatives.
• Agile Performer – Demonstrating resilience and adaptability to thrive in high‑pressure, fast‑paced environments, consistently driving compelling social narratives and engagement for our brands.
• Problem Solver – Anticipate risks, manage challenges with confidence, and elevate when needed. Maintain a solutions‑first mindset, ensuring momentum is never lost.

Key Skills

• Proven ability to plan and ideate content for social media channels Instagram and TikTok.
• Ownership of the content calendar across Instagram and TikTok for multiple brands.
• Identifying gaps for content and forward planning what is needed for the channel to thrive.
• Planning content reactively, monthly and quarterly.
• Experience of working with Community Managers and Creatives.
• Experience working with data and analysing how content is performing.
• Well versed in running a newsroom, finger on the pulse of culture and newsworthy stories.
• Creative champion with the ability to inspire bold, impactful work.
• Confident communicator, negotiator, and presenter.
• Resilient, adaptable, and able to thrive in high‑pressure situations.
• Working with community management team to understand what customers are saying on our channels and then surfacing these insights to internal team and clients.
• Knowledge of influencer/creator campaigns is preferred but not mandatory.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day.
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave.
• Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm.
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year.
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Life Assurance.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible. We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments. If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.