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Are you a social media enthusiast who can’t resist the allure of the latest video and digital trends? Do you have an insatiable passion for food, drink, and travel? If so, keep reading!
50 Best celebrates the best restaurants, bars and hotels across the world and we’re actively seeking someone to help manage the brand’s social media landscape. This is the ideal opportunity for someone who loves the gastronomy and travel sectors to work with a dedicated and passionate team on a successful, global brand.
50 Best is part of William Reed, we have offices in Gatwick and London, UK; Montpellier, France; Singapore and Chicago, US. In line with the Company’s current Agile Working Policy, the successful candidate would be eligible to work part of the week from our Crawley office and to work remotely for the rest of the week.
We are William Reed, the leading expert in the global food and drink industry.
What you’ll be doing as our Social Media Executive
Post and Content Creation
- Copywriting and creation of engaging posts in 50 Best style with different tones of voice for each brand
- Creation of social friendly visuals, designs and video
- Small video editing jobs (for example Instagram Stories or Reels)
Community Management
- Monitor all social channels including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn; flagging and escalating anything significant
- Respond in a timely fashion to all questions, comments and messages
- Proactively seek out hospitality conversations and injecting or following conversations
Scheduling/Publishing
- Uploading and scheduling posts using Sprout Social and Meta/Facebook Creator Studio
- Publishing posts across social media (this may involve some evenings and weekends)
Events/Travel:
- Live coverage and content creation at international events
- Assist in management of on the ground, external photography and videography teams
- On-site event support where required
Stat gathering and analysis:
- Weekly gathering of social media statistics
- Assist with pulling statistics from events and campaigns for post report
Influencer program
- Assist with management of our influencer programme – 50 Best TasteHunters
Admin/Other:
- Assist with general day-to-day administration tasks for social and multimedia team
- Assist with gathering content from restaurants, bars, chefs and bartenders
- Come up with ideas to increase social media audience figures and engagement
- Contribute to creative ideation sessions as part of wider Content Team
- Assisting with trends research for new concepts
Requirements
What you’ll need:
- Professional experience or studied similar area at degree level
- Strong team player
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Solid written skills
- Good grasp of grammar and spelling
- Creative, with an eye for detail
- Ability to multi-task and manage various deadlines efficiently.
- Excited for travel and exploring new cultures
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Experience using social media scheduling and analytic tools (we use Sprout Social)
- Experience using Canva or Adobe programs
Company Benefits Include
- A competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays- increasing by one additional day after 6 years, up to a maximum of 30 days.
- An additional day of leave for you to take on a cultural celebration day or on your birthday if you like. A day for you! At William Reed, we call this our “MeDay”.
- A volunteer day to take for supporting a chosen charity and giving back to the community.
- Opportunity for hybrid working
- Contributory Pension
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Group Income Protection
- Enhanced family-friendly leave pay entitlements
- Wellbeing benefits, including: A health care cash plan, Employee assistance programme and a 12-month wellness calendar for company-wide health, wellbeing, diversity & inclusion awareness dates.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
We provide a supportive work environment and are committed to maintaining a healthy work/life balance for all of our employees. Working for William Reed means that you will be joining a stable organisation that is committed to developing its employees and brands.
We warmly welcome and encourage applications from talented individuals of all backgrounds and characteristics.
If you need any support in accessing this opportunity, please do not hesitate to discuss this with us.
We look forward to receiving your application!
