Social Media Manager, Linkedin

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

About the Company


This company engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Corporate. The Upstream segment includes crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration, field development, and production. The Downstream segment focuses on refining, logistics, power generation, and the marketing of crude oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and related services to international and domestic customers. The Corporate segment offers supporting services including human resources, finance, and information technology. The company was founded on May 29, 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

This Company is seeking a well-organized, self-motivated, and creative digital communications professional to manage our growing LinkedIn account. The successful candidate will take an ownership role on LinkedIn, with the potential to manage other channels longer-term as our team grows and evolves. This individual will plan and guide engaging, informative, innovative and entertaining campaigns and content for the platform to strengthen our corporate reputation and support communication with internal and external audiences. They will work closely with our corporate communication and business partners across the company – on topics as diverse as leadership, workplace, performance, technology, sustainability, citizenship and many more – to grow our audience and optimize the channel through targeted analytics and benchmarks. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of overseeing top-notch social campaigns and strategies with measurable results in both reputational and commercial metrics. They should have a strong understanding of the current digital/social media landscape, be a strategic thinker, goal-oriented, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, start-up culture. This role is on the North America social team, working as part of a larger global team.

Responsibilities:

• Analytics: Gathering regular analytics and synthesizing them into regular reports, advising on strategies to leverage data for audience growth, and continuously improving content.
• Campaigns: Guiding and overseeing LinkedIn campaigns across teams.
• Advice and Learning: Utilizing knowledge of best practices in social content to help other teams and partners develop creative ideas proactively and reactively.
• Content Strategy: Positioning LinkedIn as part of the global social media strategy aligned with reputational, brand, and business goals.
• Channels/Platforms: Staying on top of the latest trends and developments across all social media platforms, particularly LinkedIn, and tailoring the developed content to specific audiences and platform particularities.
• Content Ownership: Overseeing and developing user-generated content, thought leadership, and other storytelling content for impactful, audience-first, channel-sensitive, and socially-native campaigns.
• Measurement and Evaluation: Driving continual improvement of social content backed by analytics on social listening, monitoring, measurement of ROI, and evaluation of the link between content quality and performance.

Requirements:

• Experience supporting leaders and supervising/mentoring more junior staff
• Experience using design and video editing software such as the Adobe Creative Suite
• Willing to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• Proficient with legacy, current, and emerging features within LinkedIn, with a strong understanding of the feature-set on other platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube
• Bachelor's degree
• Proficient with social media content management and scheduling software such as Hootsuite or Sprinklr
• 5+ years of digital communications and social media experience, ideally a mix of agency and corporate/government/regulatory

Preferred Qualifications:

• Thinks strategically and big, ensuring that content delivers against core business objectives and articulates key messages
• Is self-driven and proactive - enjoys taking responsibility and ownership while making things happen – often to a tight deadline
• Is highly organized - able to juggle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while managing essential admin and reporting work.
• Innovates and comes up with new, peculiar, and effective ideas
• Is tactically aware – knowledgeable about what's going on in social media and digital communications, as well as the wider retail/tech industry and digital ecosystem, to deliver maximum benefit for the brand
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Has a track record of successfully managing complex, fast-moving, and unexpected communications challenges in a team environment and is able to deal with ambiguity
• Proven track record of working on and delivering major social media/digital comms campaigns with reputational, brand, and business goals
• Has good judgment, particularly in narrow timeframes and under pressure
• Experience working in a complex environment with multiple teams and business lines
• Is highly analytical and structured; pays extreme attention to details
• Takes pride in storytelling and creating engaging, fresh content that is relevant, interesting and entertaining to audiences
• Experience using data/insights to inform content development and campaign strategy, using the latest social media monitoring and analysis tools