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Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Social Media Associate

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Marketing
Closing date: 26 May 2025
Requisition ID: 305022
Division/Dept.
Digital Marketing
Location
Holborn
Reporting to
Social Media Lead – Nectar and Sainsbury’s
In a nutshell
This role will support the C4 Sainsbury’s Social Media Lead to manage our Nectar and Sainsbury’s organic social media channels and our influencer programme.
What you need to do
- Publish organic, campaign, always on and reactive communications across both Nectar and Sainsbury’s social channels, in line with the brand strategy and customer plan.
- Own the Nectar social media calendar and write engaging captions for Instagram, TikTok and Meta using Nectar or Sainsbury’s tone of voice.
- Working with the Social Media Lead to create the Nectar organic social media strategy.
- Work with our in-house agency Zest to facilitate creating organic social content.
- Maintain the brand’s social presence across platforms, ensuring profile pages, header images, pinned posts etc are up to date.
- Ensure the brand acts in line with our social media governance guidelines, maintaining password security and access to accounts.
- Provide community management on all platforms, as well as for UGC, influencer content and outreach to trending content
- Experience using social media reporting and social listening platforms, like Sprout Social, is a plus.
- Support on aspects of our influencer programme, working with our influencer agency and signing off influencers with support from the campaign team.
- Attend Nectar and Sainsbury’s campaign and colleague content social media shoots.
- Tracking, measurement, competitor activity and reporting of social and influencer activity on a weekly and monthly basis.
What you need to know and show
- Know
- A deep understanding of social and have experience in creating successful content across both Instagram, Meta and Tik Tok.
- Excellent project and cross-functional stakeholder management skills, ideally proven across brands/functions.
- Experience of working with digital media, creative or influencer agencies.
- Knowledge of social media tools and platforms (e.g. Sprout).
- Knowledge of paid-social (desirable)
- Knowledge of Sainsbury’s and Nectar business (desirable)
- Show
- Your love for social! You’re on top of all the latest trends and love thinking about ideas for content.
- Experience in using editing software e.g. Photoshop/Canva/Capcut to produce and edit content.
- Self-motivated problem solver who can operate in a fast-paced environment being comfortable under pressure.
- Strong organisational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects.
What decisions I can make including budget
- How content is planned and delivered across social channels.
- How KPIs, metrics and social listening should be responded to.
Support we will provide
- Support from multiple agencies, range of social media management platforms.
- Support from wider Digital Marketing team.
- Support from the campaign team.
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