Location: Holt, North Norfolk (Hybrid)
About Sponge Cakes
Sponge Cakes is a fast-growing, playful British brand delivering handmade cakes straight to doors nationwide. From Baby Sponges to Super Sharers, we pride ourselves on quality, creativity, and creating memorable gifting moments. After 16 years and over 1.4 million customers, we're continuing to grow and we're looking for a dynamic Social and Content lead to help us build our loyal community and spread even more Sponge joy.
The Role
We're looking for a proactive, curious and creatively minded content creator to join the team. This role is instrumental to growing brand awareness of Sponge. We're looking for someone who can lead the social for the brand, not just manage calendars or come up with trending content, we're looking for someone who can bring some 'magic'. You'll help us create content that strengthens our presence and supports campaigns, events and storytelling for our customers and stakeholders.
As our Social and Content Lead, you'll be helping us achieve genuine impact and commercial results from social media and email campaigns. You'll work across a wide range of projects; drafting content, working with our PR team, reaching out to influencers,
We want someone who is comfortable and proven working amongst the weeds, growing social accounts, creating content across platforms (a mix of video and static), but who has also demonstrated strategic thinking to accompany the creative execution.
You should have a strong point of view on how we should be using social media to cut through, and be able to articulate this confidently.
Knowledge across all key social platforms is key, as is a good understanding of how Sponge should be approaching influencer marketing and affiliate marketing.
About you
This could be a great role for you, if you have:
* Experience (3+years) working in social & influencer marketing across consumer-facing brands
* Strong content creation skills across static design and video (Canva, CapCut & Adobe Suite Skills)
* Demonstrable experience of building & executing social strategies that delivered measurable impact on marketing and business goals
* An understanding of how organic intersects with paid, and an understanding of what good looks like when it comes to creative for paid social channels
* An ability to multitask, and work at pace across multiple channels and projects is essential
* Contribute to content plans that support the Sponge brand
* Write and edit a range of content including blogs, articles, case studies, reports, award entries, newsletters and social posts
* Great communicator who can build and maintain strong relationships.
* Creative thinker who isn't afraid to share new ideas.
* Driving licence essential
What we offer
A competitive salary based on experience with a bonus scheme
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Holt NR25 6DG