Working in partnership with our client, the Head of Community will be tasked with leading and supporting a team of Community managers working under the umbrella of the following categories, beauty, wellness and personal care, home care and refreshments - therefore experience with FMCG brands in this sector would be significantly advantageous. This role will oversee work, partner with clients and ensure teams are executing community management and social media strategies effectively. You will not personally own specific channels but will have close relationships with brand stakeholders and be jointly accountable for them with your brands and teams.Our ideal candidate blends strategic social expertise with client servicing wizardry and has prior experience managing people. You should enjoy getting your hands dirty across social media, video, imagery, strategy, data analytics and integrated marketing campaigns.THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...The role is best suited to someone with 5+ years’ experience working in social media either agency or client side. You know how to get the best out of people having managed a team in the past. You should be an empathetic and inspiring leader who lives and breathes social and culture to understand the impact these two areas can have on brand marketing. You should have an excellent understanding of what compelling social creative is with experience working in blended teams on big campaigns and organic social. You should be adept at working with clients and juggling multiple priorities and stakeholders.ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOININGEstablished in 2016, the client's in-house creative agency, specialising in the creation of needs content and social & digital advertising. Powered by OLIVER agency it houses a wealth of strategic and creative expertise, giving brands access and proximity to the right skillsets at the right times. U-Studio is a global network spanning 17 markets and all client categories, giving us a huge variety of briefs to work on.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLEBe accountable for CCM implementation across range of brands, helping to embed and nurture best practice habitual behaviours in line with U-Studio maxims.Sense-check reactive opportunities executed across range of brands, reviewing cultural opportunities against risk and protecting brand and/or maximising opportunity whenever possible.Engage with and be accountable for social channel strategy across brands, specifically the CCM engagement executions linked to strategic content/channel recommendations.Work together with strategy and project manager teams to feed into CCM objectives and measurements in ongoing reporting deliverables as well as longer-term benchmarking.Become a trusted voice to clients, supporting CCMs in their interactions and management of clients. Supporting and speaking directly to brand team in the delivery of big-ticket community management deliverablesLeading the charge on CCM new business opportunities within the categories – helping to nurture the pipeline of opportunities, deliver pitches and work with integrated teams (i.e. strategy, project managers and creative) to deliver best-in-class proposals.Reviewing the work, setting expectations and goals.Mentoring and coachingManaging admin: holiday approvals, reviews, feedback, client relationships and escalationsClient Management:Receiving any requests for changes of team structure or brand portfolio and working with client services team to recommend the necessary changes that result.Receiving team feedback from clients and using this to steer the correct course of action, be that an internal promotion or guidance on performance etc.Social Media Expertise:Setting and optimising the team’s perspective on social media trends and best practice.Oversight on Community management team activities and or major callouts.Support cross department communications between CCMs, brands, external teams.Oversee final deliverables (content calendar, social snapshot, other reporting etc).Attending client presentations with the CCMs as needed.Accountable for relevant procedural updates in line with client expectation or demand and implementing those process within you team – overseeing their implementation.WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL5+ years of experience working on social in agencies or brands.5+ years managing and or leading a team/persons.Experience working with an enterprise social media management tool, eg, Sprinklr, Hootsuite, Sprout)Excellent verbal communication and written skillsProven work experience as a community managerHighly organised with a proactive attitudeHigh proficiency in the English languageSocial metrics aware & social content savvyOn the pulse of platform innovations and their applications to brandsPrior experience presenting findings and ideas to clients, confidence to explain decisions.ABOUT OUR COMPANYLots of agencies say they're different. 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