Social Media Manager

Creative Circle

Our client in the CPG space is looking for a Social Media to cover a maternity leave.

High-level details:
- Start date: mid to late February 2026
- End date: Mid-August 2026, with potential of extension
- Hours/week: 40 hours
- Hybrid details: 3 days onsite mandatory - Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
- Equipment: client to provide

Role overview:
Our client is seeking a Social Media Manager to backfill coverage during a parental leave. This role is ideal for a hands-on social expert who excels in both day-to-day execution and guiding social strategy for multiple brands.

This contractor will ensure seamless continuity of the existing 2026 social media plan, maintain smooth operations, and provide people leadership for 2 Community Managers. This role is approximately 80% execution, 10% strategy, and 10% people management.

Key Responsibilities:

SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTION (80%)
- Manage daily publishing, content reviews, approvals, and optimization across multiple brands.
- Maintain the existing annual social media plan and ensure flawless operational execution.
- Partner closely with Community Managers to guide content recommendations, ensure accuracy, and support weekly tasks and KPI tracking.
- Refine insights from Community Managers' data dives, synthesize findings, and translate into actionable recommendations
- Support planning cycles, including campaign testing, annual planning inputs, and cross-functional collaboration with PR, Brand, and Earned Media teams.

SOCIAL STRATEGY (10%)
- Activate existing brand strategies; ensure alignment to social best practices
- Identify real-time opportunities, trends, and optimizations in partnership with brand teams.
- Review reporting deliverables and share insights with cross-functional stakeholders.

PEOPLE LEADERSHIP (10%):
- Mentor/manage 2 direct reports - both Community Managers
- Conduct weekly 1:1s as well as a weekly social team portfolio meeting
- Conduct a bi-weekly earned media meeting
- Support goal tracking and ensure accurate, complete reporting and task management.
- Partner with your Manager on performance alignment

The ideal candidate:
- Proficient in social media tools such as Sprout Social and Wrike. The client utilizes PowerPoint and Sharepoint for content calendar organization.
- 5+ years of social media experience, ideally in both strategy and community management
- Proven understanding of social best practices, content performance, and analytics
- Experience executing multi-brand social portfolios
- Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally
- Demonstrated people leadership (former supervisor experience helpful, not required)
- CPG experience preferred but not required

Nice to Have
- Experience supporting parental leave backfills or stepping into fast moving portfolios.
- Trend-spotting or real-time social activation skills.
- High energy, proactive style; someone who loves social and can operate independently.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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Hilary Gable - Sr. Recruiter

For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.



This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 01/27/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

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