Head of Organic, Creators & Commerce

The role is focused on leading our Organic and Creator Marketing team and integrating our Organic Social & Creator Marketing together with Paid Social to ensure a holistic Total Social approach across our team. One key focus of this role is to lead and innovate in the Organic Social space alongside developing and innovating the Creator marketing product.
Manage and nurture new client relationships. Oversee and activate social campaigns. Develop and execute paid media/amplification strategies. Experience planning and delivering social media campaigns with creators and influencers across paid earned and shared media.

Job Description:

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of social media strategy working with a dynamic team to deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Growth & New Business Leadership: Lead client growth projects and sales material creation for the OCC team. Support pitches for new business and identify opportunities for growth from existing Paid Social clients.

• Strategic Proposition Leadership: Collaborate with the Managing Partner to ensure our GTM strategy for the OCC team evolves in line with industry trends and our Total Social proposition. Develop and implement comprehensive social media strategies that align with our clients overall marketing and business objectives. Showcase a deep understanding of overarching and tactical strategies to lead and facilitate innovative work and push boundaries for our clients.

• Team & P&L Management: Lead and mentor a team of social media expertsempowering junior staff to make decisions. Oversee capacity planning income tracking and resource allocation to optimise profitability. Maintain strong commercial hygiene and proactively manage growth targets.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Paid Social Partners and ADs to ensure cohesive messaging and alignment. Build relationships with client leads and planners in our go-to-market brands (iProspect Carat and DentsuX) to help identify client growth opportunities.

• Client Relationships: Build and nurture relationships with key clients acting as a strategic consultant and escalation point for high-value accounts. Serve as the escalation point for all client activities within the OCC.

• Industry Trends and Best Practices: Stay up-to-date with the latest social media trends tools and best practices to keep the company at the forefront of the industry and continuously innovate our approach.

Requirements:

• Proven leadership experience in social media strategy team management and operational excellence.

• Strong understanding of Total Social models with experience including Organic Social Commerce Paid and Creator-led strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to drive commercial success optimise profitability and build strong client relationships to drive client retention.

• Strong presentation skills and ability to lead new business pitches alongside a proven record of driving organic client growth

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills fostering team engagement and development.

Inclusion and Diversity:

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us this is the foundation for great innovation which in turn generates better outcomes for our people partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities and of all ages nationalities backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles we cant promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

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Location:

Manchester - Bonded Warehouse

Brand:

Dentsu Media

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent