Social Customer Care Manager

Listing reference: woolw_001167
Listing status: Under Review
Apply by: 30 April 2025
Position summary
Industry: Media, Audiovisual & Publishing
Job category: Media planning and Purchasing
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
EE position: No
Introduction
This role is responsible for the development and execution of effective customer care engagements on social media, including engaging, resolving and escalating issues directly from customers. This role is particularly focused on Community Management yet may be expected to assist across the Communications media team if required.
Job description

·       Ensure Woolworths social media communication reflects the Values of our business including Customer First, Quality, Inspiration, In Touch, Responsibility, Integrity and Collaboration. 

·       Monitor customer engagements on social media channels and report on trends, sentiment and performance of content with a customer lens.

·       Respond to and resolve customer questions and concerns on all topics – positive and negative - regarding store, online and marketing operations.

·       Escalate legal concerns and perceived social media crises. 

·       Strengthen the social media community online and protect the Woolies reputation. 

·       Welcome, encourage and nurture customer connections with our brand on social media, including exploration of up-selling and cross-selling opportunities. 

·       Capable of actioning measurement tagging, reporting and analytics, messaging, branding, some creative and content, and the necessary backend technical updates needed.

·       Responsible for staying abreast of the latest trends in platform-specific social media communications in order to strengthen our messaging and brand positioning.

·       Weekly and monthly reports to be compiled and supplied as needed.

Minimum requirements

·       Relevant diploma/ degree

·       Minimum 5 years of experience with a firm understanding of Customer Care tasks and Digital Marketing and Communications practices. 

·       Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills.

·       Ability to deal with stress and the ability to manage emotionally charged scenarios

·       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 media 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

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