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Global Social Media Lead

Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join as our new Social Media Lead and thrive in a team that values mutual responsibility and creating a meaningful legacy.



Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.  

Your next role

As a key member of our global marketing and communications team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive social media plan to enhance the company's global presence and drive client engagement.

Working closely with senior management , you'll provide training and guidance on social media best practices, as well as collaborating with regional marketing leads to ensure consistent messaging and branding across all platforms as channel owner. You will be responsible for ensuring a content pipeline and producing/posting content with support from the broader team. 

Ultimately, you will ensure our social media feeds contain high quality, professional, and engaging social media output, ensuring that we bring the story of our work, and our people, to life. You’ll set the social media strategy for the business and become the key point of contact within the global marketing team, building relationships with regional counterparts to ensure a consistent tone of voice and compliance to our brand guidelines. Crucially, you'll provide an innovative voice rooted in knowledge of the business to ensure we are making the most of the technologies and channels available. 

Key duties:

  • Develop plans aligned to our broader campaigns and themes, and provide direction to the wider team in terms of social media approach and best practice.
  • Provide training and support to senior management and Partners to enhance their understanding of social media best practices and aid the delivery of the social media strategy.
  • Collaborate with regional marketing leads to align social media activities and ensure consistent messaging and branding. Pushing back and remediating content when necessary.
  • Ability to work with members of the marketing and wider leadership to react to crisis situations occurring on social media.
  • Develop and execute a global social media strategy aligned with the company's overall objectives and target audiences.
  • Collaborate with our engineers, consultants, advisers to create engaging digital marketing materials.
  • Monitor and analyse social media performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of campaigns and make recommendations for improvement.
  • Act as the key point of contact for digital marketing requests coming into the team working with the leadership team to prioritise requests.
  • Develop a plan to use LinkedIn advertising to increase our audience and improve reach for key content such as thought leadership articles.
  • Oversee the creation of our digital content, such as LinkedIn newsletters.
  • Ensure the marketing tools we use – PlayPlay, Canva, etc. – are delivering for our needs and have the branding and templates available to ensure consistent output. 
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest social media trends, tools, and best practices to continuously improve the company's social media presence.

 

Your skills and experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or related field. Or equivalent industry training such as CIM or CAM.
  • Proven experience in developing and implementing successful social media strategies for global organisations, preferably within the engineering or professional services industry.
  • Proven understanding of social media platforms, marketing technologies, and best practices.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to train and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with regional marketing teams and adapt strategies to meet specific regional needs.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make strategic recommendations.

 

What we offer:

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.  

  • Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, car allowance, life assurance and income protection.
  • Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.     
  • Generous company pension scheme.
  • Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts. 
  • Enhanced parenthood leave policies. 
  • 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
  • A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.  
  • Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions   
  • A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.


At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.  

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.   

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.   
  
 
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. 

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. 

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