Social Media Manager jobs in United Kingdom

With a trusted portfolio of world‑class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality that listens, learns, and is entrepreneurial, agile, and action‑oriented. With high‑quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, creating truly unique learning and career opportunities for all.

The Digital Activation Hub Team at Essential Home is a dynamic and highly skilled group dedicated to bridging the gap between marketing strategy and platform execution in digital media activations. This team is at the forefront of digital innovation, leveraging their extensive knowledge across various digital activation platforms to drive excellence in planning, execution and performance. Reporting to the Digital Trading Lead you will be responsible for ensuring our digital media is planned strategically and executed with precision across key programmatic platforms, harnessing platform capabilities and following all media best practices.

The Programmatic Media Manager plays a pivotal role in leading Essential Home’s category media activations, focusing on delivering impactful campaigns across BVOD, YouTube, and Online Display channels. This role involves providing critical support to the local and global media teams, ensuring alignment with Essential Home’s overarching media objectives. You will translate audience insights from our Connexions process, define digital platform roles, and develop success models around key performance indicators such as reach, frequency, and placement strategy. You will oversee daily media performance across BVOD/SVOD, YouTube, and Online Display & Video channels, ensuring campaign optimisations are implemented. You will act as the senior digital expert for key programmatic platforms, responsible for developing and updating digital channel playbooks, advising on campaign set‑up, and leading a team of in‑house traders to support campaign execution.

• Strategic (30%)
  • Lead the development and execution of category media activation plans, ensuring they align with Essential Home’s marketing goals.
  • Provide strategic support to the internal CE team and global teams, focusing on audience translations, platform roles and capability, critical KPIs and inputs into global strategic frameworks.
  • Develop and update digital channel playbooks, championing best practices and new platform capabilities.
  • Input into the Global Media Success model by testing and finalising the key Digital KPIs for each brand across reach, frequency, phasing and placement strategy.
  • Present key recommendations during full‑year brand planning, advising on digital media channels and in‑platform tactics that align with media communications objectives.
  • Showcase planning rigor by utilising key platform planning tools to provide the best recommendations, ensuring campaigns are strategically sound and optimised for success.
• Execution and Optimisation (70%)
  • Manage end‑to‑end campaign execution on BVOD, YouTube, and Online Display & Video channels, ensuring timely launches and accurate set‑up.
  • Monitor daily campaign performance, making real‑time optimisations to improve efficiency and meet KPIs.
  • Implement platform‑specific best practices for targeting, bidding and creative formats to maximise impact.
  • Leverage platform tools and betas to enhance campaign effectiveness and stay ahead of digital media innovations.
  • Coordinate with internal teams (e.g., brand, analytics, finance) to align execution with broader marketing goals.
  • Conduct A/B testing and test‑and‑learn pilots to identify scalable tactics and improve media productivity.
  • Track and report on key metrics such as Reach and Frequency, and efficient Media Cost KPIs (Cost per completed View, Cost per click, etc.) providing actionable insights.
  • Ensure accurate budget pacing and delivery, adjusting spend based on performance trends and seasonal shifts.
  • Collaborate with external partners and platform reps to troubleshoot issues and unlock new opportunities.
  • Document and share campaign learnings and case studies to inform future activations and team knowledge.
  • Make budget/campaign adjustments in a timely manner in response to changes in‑flight to media plan updates.
  • Generate and share regular performance reports with internal stakeholders.
  • Handle finance reconciliations, ensuring accurate tracking and reporting of campaign budgets and expenditures.

• 3–5 years of hands‑on experience managing programmatic media campaigns across BVOD, YouTube, and Online Display channels.
• Proven track record of executing and optimising performance‑driven campaigns, with a strong understanding of digital media KPIs.
• Experience working with programmatic media tools and dashboards, including campaign set‑up, budget pacing and performance reporting.
• Familiarity with digital media strategy and planning, including seasonal activation calendars, promotional alignment and audience targeting.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams (e.g., brand, sales, analytics) and external partners (e.g., agencies, platform reps) to drive campaign success.
• Exposure to test‑and‑learn methodologies and experience scaling successful tactics across markets.

Brand Strategy, Category Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Creativity, Marketing optimisation, Digital Marketing, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, P&L management, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience, Brand Management, Media Planning, Media Strategy, Negotiation.

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt’s potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short‑term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt’s pay‑for‑performance philosophy.

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Marketing and Sales