Social Media Specialist
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
· Ensure Woolworths social media reflects the Values of our business including Customer First, Quality, Inspiration, In Touch, Responsibility, Integrity and Collaboration.
· Assisting in developing social media content and community strategies that foster community spirit and engaging dialogue in line with the Woolworths Brand Values.
· Manage and lead Social Media Consultants to achieve excellent outcomes.
· Assisting with the production of various content types and advertising material across social platforms.
· Ensuring all social content developed is appropriate, relevant and effectively meets strategy, trade, online and campaign requirements.
· Maintaining effective social and digital media journeys, allowing for the prompt and accurate dissemination of information and to customers on social media.
· Maintaining creativity and thought leadership in the Communications Team and Woolworths business as a whole.
· Keeping abreast of local and international social content trends, including pop culture references and customer interests, to benchmark Woolworths to a global standard.
· Connect with brand and creative teams to ensure social content is available and in line with the strategy.
· Execute and evolve best practices for social media.
· Knowledge of measurement tagging, reporting and analytics, messaging, branding, creative and content, backend technical and database considerations.
· Track and analyse content metrics and tie budget, plans and programs to the achievement of agreed upon KPIs
· Strengthen and grow the social media pages and protect the Woolies reputation
· Compile and supply weekly and monthly reports as required.
Minimum requirements
· Relevant diploma/ degree
· Minimum 5 years of experience with a firm understanding of Social Media Marketing and Communications practices.
· Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
· People management and capable of leading by example.
· Ability to deal with stress
· Strong stakeholder management skills
· Balanced creative and analytical thinking style
· Ability to make effective, agile decisions
· Energy and resilience
· Knowledge of content channel strategy, marketing metrics, CRM, acquisition databases, search, web technologies, social analytical tools.
· Keen understanding of content optimization through consistent tone, visual and brand guidelines, and key messaging.
· Experience effectively collaborating across multiple teams, business units and managing agencies.
· Results oriented.
· Ability to influence and persuade key stakeholders.
· Plays a leading and supporting role in implementing initiatives at team level.
· Self-motivated with the ability to challenge the status quo and inspire others