Head of Organic Social & Influencer - Senior Partner (Maternity Cover) in Manchester

Location: Manchester & Hybrid (with in-office collaborative days as needed)

Type: Full-Time, Fixed-Term Maternity Cover (November 2026 - November 2027)

The Opportunity

Are you a visionary leader in Organic Social and Influencer marketing who thrives on driving growth through the intersection of media, creative, and data? Open Partners is looking for a Head of Organic Social & Influencer - Senior Partner to join us as maternity cover and take commercial and strategic ownership of this core product. In this high-impact role, you will act as the ultimate internal and external champion for Organic Social, leading a high-performing team to build best‑class social, community, and creator strategies that drive rapid, profitable growth for our clients.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Commercial Growth & Revenue Ownership: Generate revenue growth for Open Partners and our clients, ensuring your product hits commercial targets while maintaining strong functional margins.
• Strategic Governance & Excellence: Define and embed best practices across a market‑leading operational system for planning and activating Organic Social and Influencer campaigns.
• Cross‑Platform Integration: Collaborate across our Media, Creative, and Data products to deliver cohesive, cross‑platform strategies that prove clear impact on reach, response, and conversion.
• Client & Market Advocacy: Build trusted relationships with clients and partners as an indispensable growth partner, while evangelising our capabilities to the wider market to win new business.
• AI & Co‑Intelligence Leadership: Build and lead a high‑performing team using a gold‑standard AI and human workforce, driving automation so your team can focus on high‑value strategic work.

What Success Looks Like

• Strong Commercial Performance: You maintain strong product profitability and drive revenue growth across your portfolio.
• High Client Retention & NPS: You deliver exceptional client satisfaction, keeping client retention and NPS scores consistently high.
• Continuous Product Innovation: You actively evolve and innovate our product offerings, ensuring they are clearly understood and valued by clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Validated Operational Standards: You successfully embed best‑practice workflows validated by co‑intelligence, automation, and campaign effectiveness.

What You’ll Bring

• Strategic Leadership Experience: Proven track record in a senior agency or client‑side leadership role, with deep expertise across organic social, creator strategy, community building, and influencer marketing.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong experience managing product revenue, commercial margins, and driving new business growth.
• Cross‑Discipline Vision: Ability to seamlessly combine social strategy with media, creative, and data to deliver measurable business impact.
• People & AI Management: Demonstrable experience leading high‑performing teams, with an appetite for adopting AI tools and automation to optimise team output.
• Inspiring Communication: Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills with a track record of building deep, trusted relationships at senior client levels.

Our Values & Mindset

At Open Partners, we hire mindset first. If you do not have direct industry experience but possess a fierce growth mindset and transferable operational skills, we want to hear from you. We hold ourselves to three standards:

• Smarter: Aim high, train hard, embrace next.
• Faster: Learn fast, adapt fast, act fast.
• Better: Think, say, and do what is best.