Senior Social Strategist

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📣 A bit about the role. We are on the lookout for a Senior Social Strategist to join our Marketing Growth Team. As a direct-to-consumer e-commerce business, driving growth through our digital marketing endeavours is crucial. Our goal? To establish ourselves as the leading fresh dog food company in Europe, maintaining a strong growth trajectory over the next 5 years. The Senior Social Strategist will own the strategy, delivery and performance of paid social creative across Meta and TikTok. Sitting within the UK Marketing team, this role is pivotal for scaling creative output while simultaneously improving creative performance and quality. The role acts as the central point of ownership between creative, media and insight, managing multiple work streams (including in-house, agency and UGC resource), enabling creative sharing across international markets, and ensuring paid social creative drives efficient customer acquisition. Here's what this role en-tails: Scaling creative output & quality Build and manage systems, frameworks and processes that increase creative output without sacrificing quality or performance. Ensure concepts, hooks and formats are repeatable, scalable and insight-led. Raise the overall creative bar through strong briefing, feedback and iteration. Channel expertise (Meta & TikTok) Act as the creative expert for Meta and TikTok, with strong understanding of platform best practices and algorithm needs. Ensure creative is optimised for placements, audiences and delivery signals. Continuously evolve creative approaches in line with platform and format changes. Creative strategy, briefing & feedback Develop clear creative strategies, concepts and testing hypotheses grounded in performance insight. Write strong, actionable briefs defining hooks, angles, messaging and formats. Support the development of compelling early-frame hooks. Provide clear, performance-focused feedback across all creative work streams. Performance insight & optimisation Analyse creative performance across key metrics (e.g. CTR, CVR, CPA). Distil performance data into clear, actionable insights. Feed learnings directly into future briefs, test plans and creative iterations. Work closely with Paid Media teams to scale winning creative effectively. Project, stakeholder & work stream management Manage multiple creative work streams, ensuring alignment on concepts, priorities and timelines. Coordinate delivery across internal teams, external agencies and creators. Ensure creative is delivered on time, to brief and against performance goals. Agency & people management Manage a creative agency as a dedicated paid social creative work stream. Line-manage a direct report focused on generating UGC content via creators. Set clear priorities, standards and development goals across teams. International creative sharing Ensure paid social creative assets, frameworks and learnings are shared effectively with international markets. Support local adaptation while maintaining performance intent and quality standards. 👋 A bit about you. You possess deep knowledge of Meta and TikTok creative best practices and algorithm requirements Have strong creative strategy and briefing capability. A proven ability to scale creative content while improving performance outcomes Strong project, stakeholder and agency management skills Experience line-managing creative or content-focused roles You are highly analytical, with the ability to turn performance insight into action 📢 Our interview process: Application review Initial call (45 minutes): Introductory chat with our Talent Partner. Take home task: This will be sent to you via email and will be used to understand more about your technical skills. Technical interview (1 hour): Remote interview where you'll get the opportunity to present your task to the team. You'll then be asked a number of questions relating to it. In person values interview (45 minutes): In person interviews in our office in White City where you will meet with two squad members. You'll be asked a number of scenario and competency based questions regarding leadership experience & to assess if your values align with our company values. ℹ️ Logistics: We work 3 days per week from our West London office (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) and 2 days from home. This is non negotiable, so please only apply if you're within a reasonable commute of London. We reserve the right to close the position if we receive a lot of applications.We're a small recruitment team so do bear with us - we aim to respond to all applicants personally. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are not looking for recruitment agency support for this role. 🐶 A bit about us. At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That's why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at

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