Job Description
Social Media Manager - Freelance
Rate: £250/day - Outside IR35
Contract: Full-time
Location: London
Hybrid: 3 days per week in the office
Start: ASAP
We're looking for an experienced Social Media Manager to join an independent, culture-led creative agency, working across consumer and lifestyle clients. This is a highly hands-on social role, combining content creation, social strategy, community management and client delivery.
The Role
You'll be responsible for delivering social-first content and engagement strategies across platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X. You'll work across the full process - from identifying cultural moments and developing ideas through to creating, shooting, editing, publishing and optimising content.
You'll also manage day-to-day communities and channels, proactively identifying opportunities for brands to join relevant conversations and ensuring content feels culturally relevant and native to each platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, shoot and edit social-first content across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X.
- Develop content calendars and produce reactive, trend-led content at pace.
- Manage day-to-day community engagement and channel publishing, including proactive and reactive engagement.
- Use social listening, platform trends and audience behaviour to identify content and campaign opportunities.
- Develop social strategies, content pillars and campaign ideas rooted in cultural insight.
- Track social performance and translate data into actionable recommendations and optimisations.
- Present social ideas, content and performance insights confidently to clients.
- Collaborate with Creative, PR and Client Services teams on integrated campaigns.
- Support project scopes, budgets and timings while identifying opportunities to grow client activity.
Experience Required
- 4+ years' social media experience within an agency environment.
- Strong hands-on content creation skills - comfortable scripting, filming and editing short-form social content.
- Excellent understanding of TikTok, Instagram and wider social platform trends, formats and best practices.
- Strong experience across community management, social listening and reactive social.
- Able to develop social strategies while remaining highly executional and hands-on.
- Confident with social analytics, reporting and using insights to optimise content.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience across consumer, lifestyle, hospitality or culturally relevant brands would be particularly beneficial.
Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Contract, Social Media Manager in London employer: Sphere Digital Recruitment
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Contact Details:
Sphere Digital Recruitment Recruitment Team
