Social Media Manager
On-siteSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job Summary
Manage day-to-day social delivery for clients, keeping work on track, on brief, and on time while building trust through consistency and quality. Assist in developing strategies rooted in insight and cultural relevance, coordinating content planning, channel strategy, and trend-led ideation. Support content creators and community managers across production, publishing, and engagement to maintain high standards for everything that goes live. Work closely with clients to identify opportunities, cascade briefs, and provide insightful counsel. Contribute to regular client reporting by pulling data, surfacing insights, and telling the story of what's working. Leverage WPP Open, the proprietary AI platform, to streamline workflows and improve content production. Identify opportunities to add value beyond the brief and contribute to new business efforts. This role sits within the Social@Ogilvy team, where creativity grounded in insight and flawless execution drive game-changing cultural impact for clients.
Required Qualifications
- Mid-weight Social Media Manager
- Strong client and team management experience
- Deep platform knowledge
- Talent for guiding great social content from brief to go live and beyond
- Solid knowledge of the major platforms: the formats, the algorithm shifts, the cultural forces shaping what works
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams without dropping the ball
- Attention to detail and pride in getting things right before they go live
- A creative eye for content and developing strategic instincts to back it up
- A good understanding of social content production processes from reactive and trend-based content to planning and management of shoots and live capture
- Experience managing talent and creator led campaigns and always on activity
- Clear communication and good judgement on when to escalate
- Energy, curiosity and a genuine hunger to learn from experienced strategists and creatives around you
- A team-first mindset. You make the people around you better
- Sydney ONLY
- Melbourne ONLY
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