Senior Social Manager
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About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Social Manager to take ownership of key client accounts and deliver stand-out, performance-driven social campaigns with precision.
At Connective3, creativity and performance go hand in hand and this role sits right at that intersection. You’ll lead accounts end-to-end: planning and executing campaigns, coordinating team members, and ensuring your projects runs seamlessly, delivering measurable results, and pushes creative boundaries.
You’ll be responsible for crafting smart, insight-led social strategies, ensuring ideas are culturally relevant, strategically aligned, and executed flawlessly. Working closely with SEO, PR, Creative, and Measurement teams, you’ll make sure every campaign maximises reach, resonance, and return.
This role demands someone who thrives on detail, communication, and delivery excellence. A creative operator who keeps standards high and momentum strong.
What You’ll Do
- Own and run key social and influencer accounts, ensuring work is strategically sound, creatively ambitious, and delivered to an exceptional standard.
 - Plan and execute insight-driven social strategies that align with client goals and Connective3’s brand performance framework.
 - Oversee project timelines, workflow and quality — ensuring campaigns stay on brief, on time, and on budget.
 - Collaborate with the SEO team to strategically plan social content calendars that maximise social search opportunity and discovery potential.
 - Partner with the PR team on connected campaigns to amplify ideas across earned, owned, and influencer channels.
 - Work closely with the Effectiveness and Measurement team to embed clear metrics and prove campaign impact across both brand and performance.
 - Lead client comms confidently presenting ideas, managing feedback and ensuring clients are informed, engaged and impressed.
 - Work with internal specialists (Creative, Paid Media, Influencer, and PR) to integrate social thinking across campaigns.
 - Identify opportunities for innovation, trend adoption, and creative testing within each account.
 - Support the Head of Social & Influencers in evolving how we deliver best-in-class social work across C3.
 
About You
- Proven experience running social and influencer accounts within an agency environment.
 - Excellent project management and communication skills — able to keep multiple campaigns moving efficiently while maintaining quality and creativity.
 - Strong understanding of social strategy, content creation, influencer marketing and platform best practice.
 - Comfortable turning insight and data into clear creative direction.
 - Solid grasp of social SEO and how content discovery is evolving across platforms.
 - Confident collaborating with PR, SEO, Creative and Media teams to deliver connected, multi-channel campaigns.
 - A detail-driven problem-solver who ensures projects stay on track and deliver tangible results.
 - Passionate about social culture, creativity, and innovation.
 
What Success Looks Like
- Seamless account management. Projects consistently delivered on time, on budget and exceeding expectations.
 - High-performing social campaigns with measurable impact across brand and performance metrics.
 - Strong collaboration between social, SEO, PR, and creative teams driving connected thinking.
 - Clients confident in Connective3’s ability to deliver insight-led, creative social strategies that perform.
 - Continuous innovation through data driven social strategies
 
Why Join Connective3?
At Connective3, we’re redefining what social performance means — blending creativity, data and precision to deliver creative at scale, performance without compromise.
You’ll work across some of the UK’s most ambitious brands, leading campaigns that shape conversations, drive results and push what social can do. If you’re ready to lead with creativity and deliver with rigour — we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits
Connective3 is a creative, fast-paced, and rewarding environment. We offer much more than just the normal ‘agency perks’. We offer you a commitment to help nurture and develop your career aspirations. From industry-leading training, conference attendance, and collaboration with different digital teams and skillsets, we ensure you always learn and grow. We also offer:
- Hybrid and flexible working
 - Weekly fresh fruit
 - Yearly volunteering programme
 - Regular company socials
 - Birthday holiday
 - Private medical insurance
 - Company-funded wellness access and counselling
 - Access to Perkbox rewards
 - Wellness days off
 - Work from anywhere in the world for 6 months in the year
 - Early finish Fridays
 
…And much more!
Connective3 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion or belief, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, illness or any other protected characteristic.
We are not partnered with any recruiters for this role. If you would like to be considered, please apply directly with us.
- Department
 - Social Media
 - Locations
 - Leeds (Hybrid), London (Hybrid), Manchester (Hybrid)
 - Remote status
 - Hybrid
 
About Connective3
Connective3 is a specialist performance marketing agency, and we deliver unrivalled performance for our clients on a global scale. Through the application of SEO, Content Strategy, Digital PR, Paid Media, Strategy, Social Media and CRO we deliver transformational results to help our clients dominate in their sectors, taking market share from competitors and achieving true ROI from their digital channels.
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