Social Executive (Entertainment) - #1735174

Job Description

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as Social Executive (Entertainment) to start the next chapter in your career.

We’re the UK’s leading premium publisher, and the people behind iconic media brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Country Living. We’ve created a working environment that encourages everyone to pull together. We never stop looking for brave new ideas. We’ll always try to develop and improve, we trust each other to do our best, and we have fun as we build on our heritage to make history.

About The Role

The Social Executive (Entertainment) will work across Digital Spy, best and Inside Soap to produce, publish and analyse social content on all social media platforms, including (but not limited to) Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. You’ll work with the brand and editorial teams to deliver on agreed social strategies, create high-quality content, help grow new audiences and accelerate digital revenues. Reporting on key metrics and insights will form part of the role.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging social content for Hearst’s Entertainment brands across all major social platforms, including Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok
• Publish and schedule social content for Hearst’s Entertainment brands across all major social platforms
• Use data and insight tools to feed into brand social strategies
• Deliver regular insights reports on brands and platforms
• Help create engaging video to drive audience engagement and increase watch time
• Suggest and deliver on new and innovative ways to grow new audiences
• To be an ambassador of Hearst UK and its values.
• You may be required to undertake such further duties as your skills, qualifications and experience allow and/or as may be assigned to you from time to time.
  
  

About You

• Experience directly creating, posting and optimising content across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
• Experience using platform-specific analytics dashboards, as well as other tools such as Dash Hudson, Google Analytics and TrueAnthem, to interpret data and build reports, is essential
• A passion for social media and the opportunities and challenges of its platforms essential
• Strong communication and collaboration skills essential
• Experience working with social data and insights platforms e.g. Meta Business Suite, Dash Hudson, True Anthem essential
• A passion for entertainment, including showbiz, TV, movies and soaps highly desirable
• Experience using data to guide decision making highly desirable
• Experience using Google Analytics highly desirable
• Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects or other image/video editing software experience is desirable
  
  

What We Offer

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days)
• Hybrid working – Four days per week in the office
• Discounted gym membership
• Healthcare cash plan
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Regular socials and more!
  
  

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.

Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people. As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams. Not only is diversifying the voices in our organization the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make powerful and exciting content that can be enjoyed by many more people. This is why we’re working to build a sense of true belonging within our business and foster a culture in which everyone feels heard.