Senior Marketing Manager, SocialChain and Engage

Who are we?

A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era.

Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison, Engage and SocialChain. And we’re underpinned by our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok.

We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands and sports rights holders in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.

Our mission

New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them.

That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity for our clients—by crafting dynamic digital solutions that outpace tomorrow’s challenges.

Our values

We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across social media, digital marketing and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values:

• Bold Curiosity. We run at change and challenge convention because we love to push the boundaries of what the world thinks is possible. We champion discovery, go deep into our clients’ worlds and are always hungry to learn more about them, our specialisms and each other.
• Connected Clarity. We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple.
• Positive Encouragement. We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one other up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs.
• Constant Impact. We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data-led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft.

About SocialChain

Our world is social. It’s where we entertain, learn, connect, create, react, and protest. But brands are more disconnected than ever.

At SocialChain we use a people-first approach to help brands bridge the disconnect between how people use social and the outcomes brands need to achieve, building stronger connections between people and brands. With hubs in Manchester, London and New York, we’re a creator collective designed for a modern world. A team of content creators, community builders, platform natives, tech innovators, and trend starters – perfectly balanced with talented and experienced marketing strategists, comms planners, client leaders and data specialists.

We work with the biggest brands at the cutting edge of social, including SharkNinja, Holland & Barrett, Sony and LinkedIn. And we’re part of Brave Bison, an ambitious digital media, marketing and technology company that helps the biggest global organisations capitalise on the complexity of the digital era.

About Engage

The rules of the game have changed. Today’s sports super brands aren’t built on broadcast alone. When it comes to capturing hearts, eyeballs and wallets, constant evolution and optimisation is key.

Engage is a full service sports marketing agency built for now and what’s next.

Since 2003 we’ve helped ambitious governing bodies, sports teams and sponsors become future fit. We combine content, creativity and consultancy to help the likes of the ICC, New Zealand Rugby, Real Madrid and Formula1, scale their fanbases and expand their routes to revenue.

Who are you?

We’re looking for an ambitious, experienced and forward-thinking senior marketing manager to join our marketing team and lead our marketing efforts across our social and influencer practice, SocialChain, and sports marketing practice, Engage.

We’re going through a period of rapid and exciting growth and are looking for someone to help us build on that growth by sharing our story with our clients, our prospects, our people and the industry at large.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be:

• Curious: you’re outgoing, hungry to learn and excited at the prospect of working in a busy, dynamic team. You’ll make it your business to explore our business so that you can be an internal champion of our agency brand and positioning.
• Creative: you’re brimming with ideas with a keen eye for good design and can demonstrate versatile writing ability across a variety channels.
• Organised: You keep your cool under pressure and are committed to delivering the best results possible, irrespective of tight deadlines. You’re experienced in leading multiple projects at once and able to prioritise, multitask and manage your time efficiently.
• Relationship-driven: you’re great at building connections, lifting others up and communicating expectations clearly. Managing multiple stakeholders doesn’t phase you and persuading others to lean into agency marketing activity is second nature to you.
• Adaptable: you don’t believe in the word can’t. You’re ready to hit the ground running, test new approaches and learn new skills. The idea of balancing different projects and priorities is exciting to you, as is keeping up with a rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape.
• Results-focused: You believe in outcomes over outputs and strive to deliver a constant business impact in everything you do.

You’ll have experience in:

• A B2B marketing role or elsewhere in the media, advertising, or technology industries
• Understanding of social media, influencer marketing, sports marketing and/or the wider digital landscape
• Project and event management
• Writing for business
• Creating, measuring and optimising digital content
• Managing CMS systems
• CRM and email marketing tools (bonus points for Hubspot)
• Google Analytics
• Internal communications
• Creative software such as Figma, Canva or Adobe InDesign

Your role

Every day is different in the marketing team (that’s one of the reasons we love it…) but some of your core responsibilities include:

• Working with the CMO to set go to market strategy and annual marketing plan for our SocialChain and Engage agency brands.
• Owning the delivery of all marketing activity across both of these business units—from running events and designing email campaigns to curating whitepapers and producing social-first video content— while managing internal design, copy, editor and developer resources and communicating outcomes to senior stakeholders efficiently.
• Working with the CMO and our freelance podcast producer to scale our SocialMinds thought leadership community through conferences, intimate events, hackathons, podcasts and content, whilst also expanding our network of sponsors and partners.
• Managing our monthly reporting activity to ensure we are always measuring and optimising our output through the lens of the strategic outcome we want to achieve.
• Galvanising the wider business to lean into our marketing activity, and getting more voices from across the business contributing and sharing our successes back into the business at large.
• Managing and elevating our social media presence across Linkedin, Instagram and TikTok.
• Supporting the wider growth team in effectively managing our new business activity within Hubspot our CRM system, working with them to connect all marketing activity back to business growth.
• Managing the SocialChain and Engage websites, ensuring our case studies, insights, and core agency messaging remains up to date and working with our inhouse developers to make iterative improvements to ensure the websites remain operational and future-fit.

What you’ll get:

• Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work
• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.
• Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.
• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!
• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days
• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us!
• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day
• Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
• Online coaching: Unlimited coaching via OpenUp
• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.
• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.

Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.