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The Role
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Simply Business is on an exciting brand journey and we are now on the lookout for a creative and innovative Senior Social Media Executive to help us transform our presence across our social media platforms. This exciting new role is perfect for an enthusiastic, social native who is passionate about building brands, inspiring creativity, and thinking strategically.
Reporting to our Social Media Manager, you’ll be passionate about small businesses and the self-employed, possess strong creative skills, and have a proven track record of delivering impactful social media campaigns and growing brand channels.
As our Senior Social Media Executive, you’ll:
- develop and execute comprehensive social media content plans – writing engaging captions and producing compelling content, leveraging the latest trends and social media insight
- collaborate with the wider Brand Team – you'll be responsible for creating and curating standout social content for Simply Business in the UK, supporting our brand campaigns with expert, social-first approaches
- run the day-to-day handling of our social media channels, tailoring content to suit different platforms, audiences and objectives – working with the wider Social Team to build an engaged, social community
- champion creativity by generating new ideas and experimenting with our content to show how our brand supports and celebrates UK SMEs
- measure the success of our social activity – utilising social media tools and analytics platforms. You’ll be enthusiastic about tracking and analysing our channel and content performance, and confident in reporting insights to stakeholders
We’re looking for someone who is:
- a creative, curious and proactive self-starter with excellent written, interpersonal, analytical and organisational skills.
- passionate about social media and an expert in the UK social media landscape, including platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Facebook
- confident and demonstrably accomplished in producing native social media content for a variety of platforms and across a number of formats, particularly short-form video
- experienced in planning and executing paid brand-building social campaigns, with experience in an agency or client-facing role
- comfortable and experienced in working with social influencers / creators, creative agencies, or internal design teams to produce best-in-class social campaigns
- experienced in using social media management tools and analytics platforms, especially for measuring performance and reporting on success to stakeholders
(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)
We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.
Are you exceptionally talented at creating content that captures attention and stops people from scrolling? Do you thrive on building social communities? Do you have great ideas for building and maintaining social accounts? If so, you might be the perfect fit for our new Social Media Executive!
About Simply Business
We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.
We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.
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What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?
We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid.
On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits.
Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.
Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.
And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.
We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.
There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling.
We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme
Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).
And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.
Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.
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The Company
What We Do
Simply Business is dedicated to making small business insurance simple and accessible. Our robust digital marketplace allows small business owners to find and buy the insurance they need online, matching them with coverage from multiple top insurers to offer choice, transparency, and value. We have nearly 20 years of experience supporting small businesses, with over 1 million customers worldwide. Founded in the U.K. in 2005, Simply Business launched its U.S. operations in 2017 and today employs over 1,000 people across offices in London and Northampton in the U.K., and in Boston and Atlanta in the U.S.Simply Business is more than our name. It’s how we approach small business insurance.
Why Work With Us
Here at Simply Business we have five core values that we uphold in everything that we do: Learning, Empowerment, Authenticity, Pioneering, and Simplicity. Utilizing these values and embedding them into our culture makes SB a unique and great place to work, a place where every person is valued, a place where we get things done and have fun doing so.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We offer our SBers more choice and greater flexibility to work in a way that’s best for their particular job, their teams, and their lives.
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