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NEW ROLE! Social Media Lead Manchester - Hybrid (3 days in office) £45,000 - £55,000 + bonus Forward Role is partnered with a well-established B2B professional services business, as they look for a commercially minded Social Media Lead to turn social into a genuine lead-generation channel. This is a hands-on, strategic role with full autonomy, and it exists to generate sales, not just produce good content.
You'll own the strategy end-to-end across the core business and its growing software product: content, campaigns, paid amplification and social selling, all built to turn social into a genuine pipeline of leads for the sales team. Day to day, you'll be: ☀️ Creating engaging, social-first content across the business ☀️ Developing social campaigns specifically designed to generate leads ☀️ Turning subject-matter expertise and product updates into compelling content ☀️ Building employee advocacy and social selling among the sales team ☀️ Testing paid-social campaigns to amplify successful organic content ☀️ Developing audiences for retargeting and future campaigns ☀️ Tracking leads and opportunities generated through social What you'll bring: ☀️ Strong hands-on social media experience, ready for greater ownership and commercial impact ☀️ B2B experience essential - SaaS, software or professional services a strong advantage ☀️ A track record in organic growth, lead generation and paid social ☀️ Comfortable with analytics, attribution and measuring commercial performance ☀️ Creative, curious and commercially minded - full subject-matter training provided This isn't a role where you'll inherit a rigid playbook - you'll help build one, with access to subject-matter experts, a sizeable sales team and a large existing customer base.
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