Careers at Sofas & Stuff
Sofas & Stuff is a fast-growing premium bespoke furniture & fabric brand based in the heart of West Sussex. The business was founded in 2009 & has expanded to have 23 national showrooms and its own logistics company, growing significantly in the last three years and recently opening their own factory. Looking ahead, the business has exciting ambitions over the next five years.
All of our current vacancies are listed below, however, if you would like to send a speculative enquiry then do send us your CV at [email protected]
Social Media Manager (Maternity Cover)
A strong social media strategy is at the heart of the business' success in the coming years & we’re looking for an experienced Social Media Manager for maternity cover. A key member of the Marketing team & reporting directly to the Marketing Director, the Social Media Manager will be responsible for implementing bespoke social media strategies, identifying target audiences, increasing the volume of engaged website traffic, boosting conversions & promoting Sofas & Stuff to online communities.
Responsibilities:
- Managing, coaching & developing your Digital Marketing Executive direct report.
- Implement social media strategies that drive engagement, increase brand awareness & prospect customer acquisition across organic & paid Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn & Twitter channels.
- Conceptualise paid social media campaigns, ensuring delivery to agreed KPIs.
- Deliver the Sofas & Stuff Influencer strategy, increasing our share of voice against competitors.
- Implement the gamification strategy using a multi-channel approach.
- Lead the delivery of the UGC strategy.
- Deliver the localised Facebook training plan, ensuring showroom teams can manage their Facebook pages.
- Using social listening tools, surface valuable industry insights & report to the department & wider business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the Marketing Department to ensure social ‘buzz’ is delivered at new product & showroom launches.
- Define, track & report on KPIs, ensure insights are fed back to the department & wider business stakeholders.
- Be a leader in the latest social media trends & digital opportunities, identifying opportunities for the team & the business.
- Manage budgets for paid social, in-house social & software subscriptions.
Key Skills:
- Strategic social media planning including influencer and blogger strategies.
- Demonstrable paid social experience.
- Social listening skills and knowledge of best-in-class tools.
- Photography / videography including editing images and video creation.
- Exceptional storytelling and copy writing.
- Analytical and data driven approach.
- Budget management.
- Excellent project management and organisational skills.
- Writing business cases and reports.
- Able to excel whilst working across multi projects and tasks at the same time.
- Ability to prioritise, work both independently and collaboratively with multiple teams.
- Stakeholder & agency management.
- A creative person who is culturally aware and generates innovative content, campaigns, ideas and strategies.
- Positive approach, good communicator and a team player.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the same or a similar role.
- Paid social advertising experience across all channels.
- Understanding of Google Analytics.
- People management.
- Agency and budgetary management.
- CIM / IDM qualifications would be an advantage.
- Comfortable with Google sheets and data.
- Retail, furniture and/or home sector experience would be an advantage.
- Experience with blogging, content management systems and email marketing a bonus.
- Interest in arts and culture.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: Highly competitive
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- On-site parking
Schedule:
Please send your CV to [email protected] to apply.
