We are seeking a creative and hands-on Social Media Specialist to support our brands in North America. You will be a confident self-starter, able to operate independently on a day-to-day basis, identifying risks and opportunities early, and providing proactive recommendations.
Working as part of the Digital Content & Communications team, you will plan and deliver always-on and campaign content across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, in close collaboration with the North America teams. You will handle multiple brands simultaneously, requiring strong prioritisation, fast and clear context-switching, and the ability to keep several workstreams moving at once.
Paid social ownership, including budget, campaign set-up, and optimisation, sits with the Paid Media team. Your role is to provide strong recommendations, briefs, and content to enable effective organic and paid activity, while owning organic social performance for your brands.
Key responsibilities
Content planning and creation
- Develop and maintain social media content calendars for assigned brands, aligned to commercial priorities, seasonality, and campaign plans.
- Design and produce high-quality, on-brand social assets (static, carousels, simple motion, stories, short-form video) using Canva and/or Adobe Creative Cloud, working confidently with brand templates and creating new layouts when needed.
- Apply strong graphic design fundamentals (layout, hierarchy, typography, spacing, colour, accessibility and brand consistency) to create clear, scroll-stopping creative that performs across platforms and formats.
- Apply modular content principles—thinking in series, themes, and reusable building blocks rather than one-off posts—and identify high-performing formats to scale across brands.
- Write clear, engaging copy tailored to platform, audience, and brand voice, including hooks, post copy, and CTAs.
- Localise/adapt global and North America assets for individual brands, ensuring relevance to local customer needs and regulations.
- Prepare production-ready files (correct sizing, safe areas, compression, naming conventions, versions) and maintain an organised asset library.
Channel management and community
- Schedule, publish, and quality-check posts across key platforms for assigned brands, ensuring consistency and timeliness.
Monitor comments, messages, and reviews, escalating customer issues in line with agreed processes and SLAs. - Ensure consistent use of hashtags, tagging, handles, and UTMs to support tracking and discoverability.
- Stay on top of social trends, formats, and platform updates, recommending tests that could improve engagement or reach.
Campaigns and collaboration
Work closely with the North America team to:
- Provide content, creative concepts and variations, and messaging recommendations for paid social campaigns.
- Translate briefs into strong visual executions, iterating quickly based on feedback while protecting brand quality.
Share audience insights, post-click learnings, and on-channel performance to inform paid strategy. - Support branded and seasonal campaigns (e.g. promotions, product pushes, regional initiatives) with strong organic social activity.
- Collaborate with performance marketing, SEO, CRO, and brand teams to ensure social activity supports broader digital goals (traffic, leads, conversions).
- Brief and collaborate with creative or video partners where needed, providing clear objectives, examples, and feedback.
Performance, optimisation and reporting
- Track performance across brands (reach, impressions, engagement, clicks, conversions) and provide regular dashboards and commentary.
- Identify what’s working/not working by brand, channel, and content type; proactively recommend improvements, escalate risks/issues early, and propose clear next steps.
- Connect social performance to broader digital signals such as traffic quality and conversion intent.
- Feed insights into test-and-learn plans (e.g. creative variants, design treatments, formats, copy angles, posting times).
- Use tools such as native platform analytics, Google Analytics, and social/CRM platforms (e.g. Sprinklr or HubSpot) to understand performance.
Governance and brand consistency
- Ensure all posts and assets follow brand guidelines, tone of voice, and legal/compliance requirements.
- Support the implementation of social media best practices and playbooks.
- Help maintain clear documentation (calendars, asset libraries, naming conventions, UTM structures).
Champion creative quality control, ensuring assets meet agreed standards for legibility, accessibility, and brand consistency across devices.
Requirements:
Essential
- 3+ years’ experience in social media management for B2C and/or B2B brands, ideally across multiple brands or markets.
- Strong track record of managing content calendars and organic social campaigns end-to-end.
- Strong graphic design capability for social: able to create high-quality, on-brand assets quickly using Canva and/or Adobe Creative Cloud (e.g. Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/Express), including carousels, templates, simple motion, and short-form video edits.
- Confident with design fundamentals (typography, layout, hierarchy, spacing, colour, iconography) and able to apply brand systems consistently while improving templates and formats over time.
- Experience using social media management and analytics tools; familiarity with platforms such as Sprinklr and/or HubSpot, plus native insights.
- Comfortable working with performance data, extracting insights, and presenting simple, visual reports.
- Excellent written English with strong attention to detail and ability to adapt tone of voice.
- Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple brands, stakeholders, and deadlines, including confident prioritisation and rapid context-switching between brands and campaigns.
- Proactive, self-starting approach—able to work independently day to day, anticipate risks/blockers, and bring forward clear, data-informed recommendations without waiting to be asked.
Desirable
- Experience working alongside paid media teams, including providing briefs and recommendations for paid social activity (without owning campaign set-up or budgets).
- Experience building and maintaining reusable design systems for social (template suites, component libraries, brand-safe layout rules).
- Experience in service industries (e.g. facilities, food service, logistics) or other complex B2B2C environments.
- Experience working with North American markets/time zones.
- Basic understanding of how social activity links to wider digital journeys.
- Experience working in complex matrix organisations.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
- 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in service benefit
- Healthcare
- Free parking
At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.
We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to (joanna.sharpe@rentokil-initial.com) if you need anything
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