Social Media Manager

London - UK

Monthly Salary: £ 50000 - 59000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time / Fixed-term December 2025 December 2026
DEPARTMENT: BBC HR
LOCATION: London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 50000 - 59000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Were looking for a strategic experienced and creative social media leader to be our Social Media Manager Social Campaigns - BBC Three responsible for leading the social campaigns for some of the very biggest TV programmes at the BBC with a strong focus on BBC Three.

Line managing a team of four and reporting to the Head of Social iPlayer and Three the role will help deliver a coherent consistent social media experience for UK 16-34s with a strong focus on 16-24 working closely with the TV Social Production Edit and Planning teams as well as other promotional editorial and production teams at the BBC to ensure each campaign delivers on the agreed social strategy maximises engaged reach with young audiences delivers content of the highest creative quality and drives traffic around the BBC portfolio and reaches youth audiences at scale.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM
If youre a wizard of media production and understand the commissioning process like the back of your hand then read on. Youll be a leader an influencer a champion of new ideas steering world-leading creative campaigns with confidence and originality. Your experience in both managing teams and anticipating the audience desires across platforms and devices will be your secret weapon allowing you to translate behaviours into winning social strategies that drive youth-skewing content across the UK and drive journeys to iPlayer.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

Oversee a range of social media campaigns acting as the strategic and editorial lead for those campaigns across all social platforms working closely with the
Publishing Production Edit and Planning teams to align strategy
Help lead BBC TVs strategic and creative development in the social space setting strategy at a campaign level
Work closely with Commissioning to plan/guide social activity around priority programmes
Manage team resource and processes to ensure that we maximise our UK under-35 engaged reach at a campaign level
Ensure social campaigns are delivering on our agreed quality metrics as well as achieving relevance and scale
Work closely with the relevant talent and Content stakeholders to align programme priorities and social activity reporting to senior stakeholders as required
Work closely with the social Publishing Production and Edit teams to ensure programme asset and account priorities are aligned

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Experience delivering integrated social media projects alongside broadcast output ideally in TV or audiovisual media with a strong innovation component
A strong track record of working on major TV shows or brands on social media developing and delivering social media strategies creating content and managing communities using analytics to drive decision making at the highest level
An understanding of media production and commissioning processes.
Leadership and influencing skills to drive forward new initiatives and influence strategic thinking at senior levels
Team management experience
Ability to understand audience needs and behaviours across platforms/devices/content and translate this into strategic thinking
Demonstrated ability to manage and nurture stakeholder relationships across production talent and internal teams to drive impactful social media campaigns and audience engagement.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Required Experience:

Manager

JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: DCONTRACT TYPE: Full-time / Fixed-term December 2025 December 2026DEPARTMENT: BBC HRLOCATION: London HybridPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 50000 - 59000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and ex...