Digital and Social Media Senior Executive

At Rathbones, we help people invest their money well, so they can live well. That means more than financial returns – it’s about helping people feel confident in their decisions and supported in their future. We don’t just manage money, we guide people through life’s big moments, helping them stay on track and focus on what matters most.

We’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading wealth managers, with over £109bn* in assets under management and 20+ offices across the UK and Channel Islands. We’re a FTSE 250 company with national reach and a local feel – and we’re growing.
*As of June 2025

Role Title: Digital and Social Media Senior Executive

Division: Chief Client Office

Location: Liverpool or London

Contract: 12-month secondment / fixed term contract

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

This role is primarily focused on leading Rathbones’ social media activity and building an engaged audience. You’ll own our social channels and ensure we continually innovate in our use of them, while also advising colleagues on how to create great social content. You’ll also work across other digital marketing and marketing technology, including supporting colleagues to build excellent user experiences on digital channels.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Management and governance of all our social media accounts, and our relationships with the social media platforms.
• Ownership of our social media management technology and ensuring our colleagues can use it to the best of its capability.
• Creation of an overarching social media strategy based on input from audience owners.
• Driving how our brand narrative is told on social media.
• Helping colleagues create great content tailored to social media through the creation of a social media playbook and templates, and then ensuring best practices are followed.
• Ensuring content shared across social media channels is consistent in tone, aligned with brand guidelines, and coherent to audiences across platforms.
• Maintaining a strategic, audience-led content calendar across all platforms to ensure coherence, timeliness, and alignment with business priorities.
• Steering all social listening by monitoring social media engagements and ensuring relevant colleagues are engaged on matters requiring their attention.
• Community management by way of triaging of responses required to social media activity into the organisation.
• Management of our review platforms – primarily Google Reviews and Trustpilot – and response coordination to ensure positive outcomes for users.
• Fostering of a community of engaged social media stakeholders. 
• Social media reporting by platform and collectively across all social channels that includes interpretation of performance data to provide actionable insights that improve social media performance and inform broader marketing activity.
• Innovating with social media, including fostering the introduction of new platform features, new content types, new ways of telling stories and new channels to enter.
• Supporting reputational risk management by flagging and escalating potentially sensitive or non-compliant content and engagements.
• Collaborating with our employee advocacy team in helping our colleagues make the most of social media.
• Management and optimisation of our presence on Google Maps, Apple Maps and Bing Maps.
• Be the primary go-to-person for colleagues who need help with editing the website.
• Supporting search engine and large language model visibility by applying basic SEO principles to social media posts and website updates.
• Assisting with updates to the company website using the CMS (e.g. publishing content, correcting issues, maintaining brand consistency), and supporting on larger changes.
• Support peaks of demand and provide cover for MarTech services managers.

About you

• Significant experience in a social media/digital marketing role – either client-side or agency-side
• Degree educated and marketing qualifications preferred
• Financial services experience preferred
• A modern, digital marketer with an in-depth understanding of social media.
• Continually pushing for improvement in the performance and presence of our social media activity.
• An eye for creative but also total comfort in analysing performance data and drawing out insights and next steps from it.
• Strong native social media channel and business manager experience including across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, SnapChat, YouTube.
• Social media channel management software experience such as Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Sprinklr.
• Experience with best practice in managing Google reviews and Trustpilot reviews.
• Website Content Management System operating experience, with the ability to code in HTML and CSS a plus.
• Ability to coordinate a wide range of stakeholders and deliveries.

Our offer to you

We want everyone at Rathbones to fulfil their potential, in an environment where you are proud to work and feel like you belong.

We offer a comprehensive remuneration package, which we review regularly, and benefits include:

• A company pension - 9% non-contributory or 10% if you contribute 5%
• Private medical insurance – Individual on joining, family after 1 year’s service
• Life assurance  - 8 x salary
• Income protection – 75 % salary
• Company share scheme
• Discretionary bonus
• Flexible holidays – purchase up to 5 additional days
• Green Car Scheme
• Family friendly policies – enhanced family leave for parents & carers
• Study support – study days and funding for courses and qualifications
• Season travel ticket loans
• Volunteering days
• Gym discounts
• Other voluntary benefits you can choose to suit you 

Our employees can choose to take part in various social groups and communities to support their wellbeing, growth, development and sense of community. These include:

• Sports & Social Committees, such as cricket, football, netball, running, yoga, quiz nights, charity bake sales and much more.
• Inclusion Networks that help us drive change within the organisation such as Gender Balance, Multicultural, Abilities Count, Pride, Social Mobility, Generations, Menopause Matters@Rathbones’ and Armed Forces. 
• The NextGen IM Network, which brings together a community of trainees from across the UK, who are all at the early stages of their careers and offers development opportunities, exposure across the business as well as peer support and connection.

Life at Rathbones

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all.

We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer (level 2) under the UK Government scheme. This means we’ve signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities. Find out more about the Government Scheme online, click here. If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones, please contact us via recruit@rathbones.com to let us know what adjustments you may need.

Mission

We believe in playing the long game. That means building consistent results, earning trust and doing the right thing — for our clients, our colleagues and the communities we’re part of.

Our values shape how we work:
- We aim high
- We get it done
- We show we care
- We do the right thing

These aren’t just words on a wall. They guide how we treat each other, how we make decisions and how we build relationships that last.

We will close this advert once we have received enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss out.