Job Description

Prodigious is an award-winning global production studio, part of the connected Publicis Groupe, providing production services across all channels both agencies and directly to clients.

We have offices in over 30 cities worldwide and a 3,000 strong team of dedicated production professionals. We are proud makers, and we make amazing stuff – from CG animation to DOOH, to digital and live action TVCs.  We work closely and collaboratively with our agency partners (Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Digitas, Publicis Media and Performics Mercerbell) and our direct clients.

Our mission is to deliver best-in-class production, with excellence in craft, innovation, and problem-solving at our core.

Role Description

We’re looking for a creative & strategic minded Senior Social Media Manager to help deliver best in class strategic social thinking and innovation for our client’s businesses and brands. This role is responsible for supporting the Social Director in leading a social team, and ensuring all strategy, creative thinking and output is fully integrated with all other efforts across the company’s portfolio of brands. The Senior Social Media Manager will lead and develop the team, to provide best in class social media content, campaigns and strategies.

• Drive, within the team and with clients, an elevated and longer-term vision around the state of social media and wider content implications for the industry, with a focus on our clients.
• Drive the awareness and implementation of new platform developments and content opportunities within the team, to the benefit of our client brands.
• To create, concept, and present social media strategies (across creative content, organic and paid media) and integrated marketing campaigns aligned to our clients’ media or communications strategy.
• Understand and be capable in using analytics, performance, trends, competitor behaviour and best practice to optimise and fuel new strategies where relevant.
• Monitor and analyse social media trends and their impact on clients’ brands, consumers and paid strategies.
• Interpret and execute the direction of strategy/planning, into ongoing content plans (including concepting, creating and reporting), aligned to the broader social media strategy.
• Maintain monthly reporting that includes overall client performance, category learnings, brands learnings and suggested optimisations moving forward
• Develop monthly posting calendars (ahead of time) in line with social approach and campaign/partnership requirements
• Develop new and productive relationships with appropriate media partners i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc, to have access to best in class ways of working and new format innovations.
• Develop the social team, ensuring growth and development and leading & mentoring fellow team members

What we are looking for:

• Someone with a passion for creativity and craft.
• Experience working on social media campaigns, across a wide variety of social channels
• Able to think creatively and pitch innovative ideas to clients while adhering to their brand values
• Passionate about digital & social and proactive in keeping up with new trends & insights
• Able to work independently but also a great collaborator & team player
• Strong problem solving skills with strong communication skills

What we can offer you!

Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses enjoying all the perks that come with our network offering:

• Publicis Liberté – Flexible working to suit your lifestyle. Within the bounds of the role, Prodigious will work with you to achieve maximum flexibility around your life. As this is an onsite role, this can include limited work from home
• Access to equipment – our facilities are state of the art, and we love to see people making stuff! We have a recording studio, photo studio, edit suites, CGI workstations, camera gear, film equipment… you name it, we have it and we want to see you making stuff with it.
• With global reach and offices all over the world, Prodigious will give you access to a network of people all around the world to help progress your career.
• Work with a diverse team where we value all the benefits of harnessing differences for our people, our clients and our business. 
• A committed Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité and First Peoples RAP (reconciliation action plan) programs 
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year
• Access to employee benefits including –wellness programmes, learning and development opportunities, network events, retail discounts
• Confidential 24-hour support via our employee assistance programme

Prodigious, a part of Publicis Groupe believes that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people.