Media & Social Strategy Lead – Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing

Job title: Media & Social Strategy Lead – Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing

Career level: 4

Location: UK (remote)

Contract: perm

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The Role

The Media and Social Strategy Manager defines and owns all media and social strategies across the AEU Region (Asia, Europe & UKI) within Employer Brand Consulting. Working closely with the Client Relationship Manager and Client Partner, they will develop brand strategies that focus on the use of media and social either as standalone campaigns or as an ‘always on’ strategy.

They will ensure delivery against scope, budget and creative brief, working with Client Service and Delivery teams, plus the AMS Digital Media Hub to oversee effective delivery and accurate reporting.

They effectively execute strategies, problem-solve, and develop solid business relationships both with client stakeholder and internally across the team and wider AMS colleagues.

They have a deep knowledge of media and social media platforms and provide insights to help drive innovation, as well as providing channel and format expertise to help inform creative and content.

They also support the Head of Employer Brand and Senior Managers to where media and social insights are required to help achieve the growth strategy.

Reports to the Senior Manager for Client Service and Growth (Career Level 5).

Client & Growth

• Deliver end-to-end media and social strategies aligned to client objectives, ensuring measurable ROI.
• Provide data-led recommendations, briefs, reporting, and optimisation in partnership with CRMs and project teams.
• Manage relationships with media and social platforms/providers; advise on adoption of best-fit solutions.
• Standardise strategy and reporting approaches to drive scalability and efficiency.
• Lead client meetings, presentations, and contribute to pitches/new business opportunities.

Insights, Strategy & Innovation

• Track and share latest media and social trends, platforms, and providers across the region.
• Drive innovation in attraction strategies, collaborating with Client Service, Creative, and Talent Attraction teams.
• Support team ideation, knowledge-sharing, and Employer Brand Consulting’s own promotion.

Operations & Commercial

• Ensure accurate reporting, data integrity, and compliance with mandatory training.
• Contribute to project financial health through effective time tracking and utilisation targets.
• Onboard and embed processes/tools (e.g., Monday.com), ensuring best practice in delivery.
• Brief and manage external suppliers where required.

Critical Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience in media and social strategy, specifically within the UK, Europe and India, across professional hiring and Early Talent
• Experience of both paid and organic social media strategy and the ability to inform development of effective content strategies
• Data analysis and reporting skills with the ability to analyse, interpret data to measure campaign effectiveness, ROI and make data-driven recommendations for optimization
• Ability to seek out media and social trends and the latest innovations to provide insights both internally and to clients
• Attention to detail with strong desire for accuracy and quality
• Experience in producing and delivering presentations and reports to senior stakeholders both internal and external

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Relevant previous experience within a similar employer brand/ talent, communications, advertising or brand agency environment
• Experience in a client-facing media and social strategy role
• Experience of working with remote teams
• Extensive knowledge of all Microsoft platforms, particularly PowerPoint
• Experience presenting in client and new business meetings
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Driven, open-minded and passionate

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It’s our world but you can do it your way.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world’s leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [email protected] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.