Established more than 90 years ago, this business is one of the largest suppliers to schools, nurseries, public sector organisations and businesses in the UK, with thousands of customers nationwide.

A key part of the new Digital team, the Social Media Executive is responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the social media strategy, helping to drive brand awareness and growth

Energetic and proactive, with excellent attention to detail and impeccable spelling and grammar skills, the Social Media Executive will create, find and share exciting, engaging content across all social channels, using creative writing, video, animation and more to bring their brand to life and build engagement with their audience(s). You'll work closely with the Product Marketing experts to deliver the right message to the right people at the right time, using paid campaigns to target specific demographics as part of our wider marketing plans.

Confidence and good communication will be important, as a core part of the role will be to identify and build relationships with customers and industry experts to develop an exciting network of brand ambassadors and influencer partners to generate positive messaging on our behalf. You will be comfortable with analysis and reporting tools, allowing you to demonstrate the impact your work is having on our objectives.

This is a wonderful opportunity to help build a long-term social and community roadmap, identifying opportunities to make more out of our existing platforms whilst keeping abreast of new trends and technologies to suggest new ways to engage and delight potential customers.

Essential Criteria:

Experience of working with and managing core social media channels (including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat & TikTok).

Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers and brand ambassadors, external influencers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Creation of rich engaging content, adhering to tone of voice and brand standards as applicable.

Experience building, executing and analysing paid social campaigns to specific demographic audiences

Accuracy and attention to detail - we need someone who cares about getting it right.

This role comes with excellent career progression and benefits including:

* 4% employer pension contributions
* 25 days annual leave rising to 27 after 4 years' service
* Birthday off
* Employee Assistance Programme available to employee and family members, where counselling, financial and legal advice can be provided
* Employee benefits portal - a range of offers ad discounts available to employee
* Flexible working - Working from home and in the office is available
* A range of employee effectiveness and well-being sessions are run and available for all employees to attend internally
* Life cover based on 3 times basic salary.

Connect2Staff/Connect2Kent, part of Commercial Services Trading/Kent Ltd, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.