Social Media Executive 2025

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Role purpose

Passionate about Health & Beauty? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? As the Social Media Executive for Store Social, you will report to the Social Media Manager with the goal to support & inspire the store teams to grow their presence across localized store social media pages and create highly engageable content.

A typical day in this role includes

• Work with the Social Media Manager and team to plan and implement the social media strategy with the goal to drive growth and engagement across the Superdrug social media channels, including store pages.
• Be the key contact for store & field teams, providing guidance on best-in-class social media activity, latest trends and inspiration for content.
• Build and analyse performance trackers, to report key store social media KPIs to the business.
• Utilise social listening tools and work with agency & social platform contacts to strengthen & streamline store social media reporting.
• Provide store teams with resources and support needed to activate key campaign and brand messages across their social pages.
• Work with brand partners to host social media competitions & incentives to drive awareness of exclusive product launches across store social media pages.
• Build exposure to wider social media tasks, including but not limited to content scheduling, briefing content agencies, supporting with management of social competitions and content creation (shooting, filming and editing content) for main Superdrug social media pages.
• Be the eyes and ears for emerging social media platforms and trends.
• Work closely and collaboratively with wider regional, digital and marketing teams.

This job is a good fit for you if

• You enjoy working in a fast-paced marketing environment
• You have a passion for social media
• You understand how to use a variety of social media platforms
• You are good at spotting the latest trends and new social platform features.
• You are highly creative with experience in content creation
• You have developed good communication and organization skills and have strong attention to detail
• You are motivated to work on own initiative

What you’ll need

• A huge passion to work in social media
• A degree in a creative / business field would be valuable
• An understanding of the core principles of social media & social media platforms

Here's what's in it for you

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
• Company pension matching and bonus
• We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes

Come and be part of something special.

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.