We're on the lookout for a talented Social Media Account Director to expand our Social team to help us support and grow the department, based at Visualsoft House in Stockton-on-Tee, Newcastle office in Grey Street or Manchester City Centre offices!
This role is to cover maternity leave within the team. It will be at least a 9-month contract with a likely extension.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to be part of an award-winning agency.
As a Social Media Account Director, you will be responsible and accountable for the success and delivery of Visualsoft's Social service. You will own a portfolio of social clients and become the go-to key relationship stakeholder for social. Relationships and client centricity are key as your key objective is to grow your portfolio's return ensuring the social product/service is innovative, efficient and delivered to the highest possible quality.
In this role, we're looking for someone to lead and ensure implementation of the client portfolio, across all relevant platforms to the product/service, constantly delivering ROI. By utilising the latest ‘best in class’ technology and leveraging partnerships to drive excellence, you will put the client first reacting and adapting when required with a strategic mindset.
Strategy and impeccable execution is key to the role, ensuring that clients benefit from the social service and have a clear and transparent view of the work carried out.
What you'll be doing:
1. Overall responsibility for client portfolio social relationship
2. Overall responsibility for client portfolio retention
3. Overall responsibility for client portfolio happiness, measured by NPS & CSAT.
4. Maintain highest standards of social implementation and execution
5. Continuously strive to produce the highest results for Visualsoft clients via social
6. Coach, mentor and train other Visualsoft staff members to produce the highest quality social work for clients.
7. Constantly strive to improve and maintain processes and procedure documents
8. Be the go to within your client portfolio for all things social
9. Identify and execute client training raising social understanding where required
10. Maintain and increase efficiency of the execution and implementation of social across your client portfolio
11. Develop the service offering to maintain best in class standard
12. Responsible for commercial growth of the client portfolio using social
13. Identify and assist with sales opportunities within your portfolio
14. Handle and prepare sales documentation and sales pitches within your portfolio
15. Lead, speak and engage at external events and conferences
16. Maintain expert knowledge at the forefront of social. Stay up to date with emerging tech and trends.
Requirements
This role requires someone with exceptional communication and client relationship/management skills and who is an absolute expert within the social industry.
The ability to lead clients and work alongside high performing teams influencing clients and internal stakeholders is essential, using technology and industry leading practices.
Essential
17. Extensive proven experience either agency or client side specialising in social
18. Extensive experience of social management
19. Experience with paid and organic social media
20. Proven expertise in external social platforms and tools, analytics, forecasting and measurement
21. Experience in building and executing social strategies, whether in-house or for clients
22. Working to tight deadlines as a team and as an individual
23. Client-facing experience at a senior level
24. Client meeting experience and proven strategy presentation skills
25. Analytical and data driven
Desirables (but not essential)
26. Experience in ecommerce
27. Experience in other digital media channels
28. Google Data Studio
29. Attribution
30. Google Tag Manager
Benefits
31. Competitive basic salary with great progression options
32. Unlimited paid holidays - yes that's not a typo!
33. Hybrid working
34. Great working environments; our Stockton on Tees and Manchester workspaces are also dog friendly
35. A high-performance MacBook
36. 'Health Assured' Employee Assistance Programme
37. Free eye tests and flu jabs
38. VS Perks, have a monthly treat on us; from Amazon vouchers, Playstation credits, ASOS, H&M to Just Eat, there's something for everyone!
39. Free breakfast, fruit, hot and cold drinks and protein shakes
40. Friday afternoon drinks to wind down for the weekend
41. Pension scheme to help you save for the future
42. Cycle to work scheme
43. Discounts across our brands
44. Regular team social events
45. Training & development