Social Media Editor

The home of great ideas for more than 100 years, Ideal Home is your one-stop-shop for all things home. We’re here to make the best home design accessible to everyone, and our unique formula of home decorating ideas and inspiration plus practical expert advice and solutions is on hand to help you enjoy a happier, healthier, better designed home.

We’re looking for a Social Media Editor to help us drive social engagement and referrals on Ideal Home. You’ll be comfortable producing stills, reels and editing short videos for use across our social platforms, and equally passionate about tracking results of your posts to help us drive forward our social strategy.

What you’ll be doing

As Social Media Editor at Ideal Home, you'll create shareable content (images, reels and video) for use across all social platforms for Ideal Home. You'll manage and implement social strategies across platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Flipboard and TikTok and manage team editorial calendar to ensure all key calendar dates are covered

You'll work alongside key stakeholders in the company, including marketing, ecomm and commercial, to deliver successful editorial and commercial social campaigns, represent the social media team in brand meetings, analyse referral traffic and deliver weekly reports and work alongside the Content Director and brand editors to give social support and share knowledge to wider Future brands when required

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve

A passion for social media with a thorough understanding of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and Flipboard
A finger on the pulse for knowing what works on social media and the latest platform features and trends
A positive, creative and enthusiastic attitude
Superb written skills
Ability to work brilliantly independently and as a team
Photoshop and video experience desirable
Experience with Canva desirable

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year.

* Internal job family level E5.

Please note, the salary for this role is up to £33,000.