# Social Media Manager, Lipsy (12 month FTC)

**Company**: NEXT
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: fixed-term contract
**Salary**: competitive
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As Social Media Manager for Lipsy, a wholly owned brand of NEXT, you will lead the day-to-day execution of brand and campaign activity, ensuring storytelling, content, and influencer strategies are aligned, dynamic, and distinctly on-brand.

The salary for this position is competitive.

### Brand Strategy & Campaign Delivery

- Lead integrated marketing campaigns across social, email, and influencer channels.

- Maintain the voice and visual identity across all marketing channels as a brand guardian.

- Support and optimise paid and organic social media performance, understanding key drivers of engagement and results.

- Brief and direct social shoots, managing the process from initial briefing to on-set direction.

- Create engaging, audience-first social content to bring product stories to life.

- Stay ahead of cultural and social trends, identifying relevant creators, moments, and content opportunities.

### Leadership & Collaboration

- Manage and support two direct reports: the Marketing & Social Media Executive and the Content Creator.

- Collaborate closely with PR, ecommerce, creative, buying, and design teams to ensure total brand consistency.

- Evolve the influencer strategy by cultivating relationships with new talent and ensuring meaningful partnerships.

- Report on campaign performance using creative insight and data analysis to provide recommendations for future improvement.

### Technical Requirements

- Proven experience in a similar marketing or brand role, ideally within the fashion, beauty, or retail sectors.

- Strong passion for content, culture, and storytelling with a focus on digital platforms.

- Proven ability to brief and direct content creation specifically across TikTok and Instagram.

- Experience in managing and mentoring junior team members.

- Keen trend-spotter with a sharp eye for new influencers, platforms, and visual directions.

- Excellent copywriting skills and clear understanding of brand tone of voice.

- Confident using performance insights to guide content and strategy decisions.

- Highly organised, proactive, and comfortable working at pace with cross-functional teams.

### Benefits

- 25% off most NEXT, MADE, Lipsy, Gap, and Victoria's Secret products.

- 10% off most partner brands and up to 15% off Branded Beauty.

- Hot deals and exclusive offers from over 3,500 retailers through the online benefits platform.

- Company performance-based bonus.

- Early VIP access to sale stock via Direct to Desk.

- Life assurance.

- Sharesave scheme.

- Annual Travel Card Loan.

- Sample Sales.

- Fantastic L&D opportunities.

- Flexi-Hour Scheme.

- Direct to Work - Discount online and in-store, collect items the next day for free.

- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups.

- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships.

## Skills

### Required
- content creation
- social media management
- influencer marketing
- campaign delivery
- brand strategy
- team leadership
- performance analysis
- copywriting
- trend spotting

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