Social Media Executive

Location/s: London, Birmingham - UK
Recruiter contact: Steven Johnston

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Overview of the role
We are looking for a marketing professional with demonstrable skills and experience in managing company social media channels to join our expanding Campaign and Engagement team and manage the region’s use of our corporate social media channels.

You will bring your passion for social media, love of compelling content and creative, and focus on data insights to manage the region’s effective performance on our social media channels.

You will be responsible for all aspects of social media activity in the region, from the production of individual posts, through to helping to set the region’s social media strategy.You will engage widely across the region’s marketing function, with deep collaboration with all members of the region’s Campaign & Engagement team, and relevant members of the Group Marketing team who have overall global responsibility for our channels. You must therefore be an excellent collaborator and team player, who can stretch from confidently taking briefs through to successful execution, as well as bringing more strategic thinking to help shape our social media performance.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Creation of content and assets for corporate social media channels and our advocacy platform
• Creation of content and assets for selected market-facing senior stakeholders on their individual social media profiles
• Ensure a strong and well-balanced rhythm of high-quality ‘business-as-usual’ posts, as well as supporting key campaigns and broader high-profile marketing activities through social media
• Regional champion and administrator for our advocacy platform, as well as supporting others in the Campaign and Engagement team with the use of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and paid social media outreach
• Offering training and support to individuals/teams in the business with their use and adoption of social media and advocacy
• Gather, use and share engagement and performance data for social media channels, with data-driven decision making to help improve out impact through social media
• Ensure that workflow and assets are documented on Mott MacDonald's marketing system
• Effective adoption and use of related digital tools, such as insight tools and social listening tools
• Ensuring the corporate brand, visual identity, tone of voice and technical excellence standards are properly represented in all content

Candidate specification
Essential:

• Demonstrable experience in a busy marketing department, with a depth of experience working on company social media channels
• Demonstrate a good grasp of how to create compelling and engaging content for different channels and audiences
• Excellent copy writing skills, strong attention to detail, fully able to produce accurate, on-brand and proof-checked content and assets
• Deliver ‘business as usual’ activities efficiently and to deadlines
• Passion for compelling content and creative, and proficiency in using social media tools
• Proactively manage deadlines and multiple projects simultaneously
• Confident in taking briefs, ensuring clarity/understanding of the task, with successful execution
• Good communicator and collaborator, able to form good relationships across the function and with key stakeholders, and work to clearly articulated briefs and requests
• Experienced in social media analytics and producing reports that clearly explain recommendations for optimisation and improvement

Desirable:

• Love data and insights and have the ability to interpret and use data to shape and optimise activities
• Marketing, communication or marketing related degree, or other qualification from a relevant body
• Experience of working in a medium to large sized marketing function or agency
• Experience using Optimizely platforms desirable, with experience on social media scheduling platform and creative tools such as Canva, InDesign and Shorthand advantageous
• Highly organised and able to work with multiple stakeholders and colleagues on a variety of tasks simultaneously and keep stakeholders informed about progress
• Flexible to work to shifting priorities, demands and timelines

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working  

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace. 

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.