Social Media Manager

The Veloce Group is looking to hire a Social Media Manager to join a fast paced and hugely exciting content and social team. Veloce Group includes Veloce Racing, a competitive racing team which competes in the first all-electric off-road motorsport championship. In which our goal is to win races and win minds, championing the progress of gender equality, electrification, and environmental sustainability. Veloce Esports, an elite esports brand, operator, and platform, as well as joint venture esports business Quadrant (McLaren F1 Driver Lando Norris’ esports and content team). Beyond its own competitive teams, Veloce Esports operates teams & esports ventures for Mercedes, Alfa Romeo, McLaren and the Abu Dhabi government. We are pioneers through creating competitive teams, exciting events, and exciting content – leveraging our world-class in-house talent.

As the Social Media Manager at Veloce, you will help the social and content team grow and engage a growing audience through creative content. Your core focus will be working on the Veloce Esports social channels, so the ability to manage multiple accounts is important. Social accounts that we operate are Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Discord, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, and video platforms such as YouTube and Twitch.

You will work closely with the Content Team on content creation, email marketing campaigns, partnership deliverables, brand campaigns, media reports, event support and much, much more.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Working closely with the content, social and marketing departments.
  • Grow and manage Veloce and clients' social channels through engaging and on-
  • brand content creation and execution
  • Build and manage the content calendar, working closely with all internal teams and
  • stakeholders to develop a clear workflow and guidelines for all channels
  • Work with the Team Manager's to manage a global and growing team of content creators and team members to promote their activity and create exciting content
  • Work closely with the in-house Content team, and remote creators to create quality content
  • Be a social expert for the Veloce team and our list of clients and brands, collating and understanding data and reports that help us craft key decisions

 

SKILLS REQUIRED

  • Someone with a passion for motorsports

  • Excellent attention to detail.

  • Experience in putting together a structured content calendar.

  • Obsession with all things social. Ability to stay up-to-date with the tight-knit motorsports community.

  • Knowledge of the social performance metrics that count and how to measure them.

  • Exceptional written and oral English

  • Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, and social scheduling platforms (Sprout)

  • Ability to edit video content & create social graphics

  • A previous track record of building engaged social audiences

 

WHAT WE OFFER

  • 25 days annual leave and shut down period around Christmas.

  • Birthdays off & days in lieu if required to work a weekend.

  • Office Bar open all week with our own Veloce Beer, by 1936 Biere.

  • Office competitions such as Sim Racing, Darts and Table Tennis.

  • Veloce & Quadrant Apparel and discounted new drops.

  • Laptop, IT equipment and 24/7 IT support.

  • 50% towards corporate gym membership.

  • Bike 2 Work scheme with Evans Cycles.

  • Mental Health Support with 24/7 365 therapist access.

  • Quarterly team night outs and activities.

  • A work hard - play hard mentality, with a great office culture.

 

You must be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role.