Spotlight Sports Group

Social Media Executive

Spotlight Sports Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Manage and grow The Racing Post’s social media presence across all key platforms, ensuring content is timely, accurate, and engaging
  • Work across multiple digital media - creating content, graphics and video across different social media channels including X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
  • Plan, create, and publish social content that supports editorial priorities, major racing events, and the wider racing calendar
  • Liaise with editorial production teams to help promote key content and breaking news on our social channels
  • Deliver live social coverage of race days, breaking news, and key industry moments, reacting quickly and confidently in real time
  • Work closely with editorial, video, and data teams to translate Racing Post journalism into compelling social-first formats
  • Write clear, engaging, and platform-appropriate copy that reflects The Racing Post’s authoritative yet accessible tone of voice
  • Monitor social media performance, track key metrics, and provide regular insights and recommendations to improve reach, engagement, and audience growth
  • Identify trends, conversations, and opportunities
  • Ensure impactful delivery of commercial messages through social content,
  • Drive Horse Racing conversation online by promoting and reacting to key sporting moments including big races such as the Grand National and Cheltenham Gold Cup
  • Ensure all Horse Racing content is on brand with the correct tone of voice at all times
  • Monitor and document competitor activity (bookmakers / publishers / affiliates)
  • Work on live events, including clipping of our live shows on Grabyo such as The Morning Post, working with the production team to optimise these for our Social Media channels
  • Ensure all content meets compliance and responsible gambling best practise at all times

Requirements

  • Experience managing social media channels for a brand, publisher, or media organisation, ideally within sports, racing, betting, or a fast-paced digital environment
  • Strong understanding of major platforms including X (Twitter), Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube, with a clear sense of what content works where and why
  • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to craft sharp, engaging copy aligned to The Racing Post’s tone of voice
  • Genuine interest in horse racing and/or sports journalism, with a solid understanding of racing audiences and key moments in the racing calendar
  • Experience using social media management and analytics tools (e.g. Hootsuite,, native platform insights) to track performance and inform content decisions
  • Strong news sense and the ability to react quickly to breaking stories, live events, and trending topics
  • Availability for shift work that works crossmatches the sporting and racing calendar, including weekend work
  • Copywriting: Comfortable writing engaging and concise content for social media
  • Organisational strength: Having the ability to manage multiple workstreams effectively and efficiently, whilst being able to clearly communicate performance issues, deadlines, timescales and such like is extremely important.
  • Ability to take initiative and develop your role: Take on constructive feedback during regular meetings with your manager and consistently take initiative to develop your role and contribute to your team’s success by taking on ‘non-bau’ projects where needed.
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects at once
  • Image/video editing skills (e.g. Adobe, Canva, or platform-native tools) desirable
Benefits
  • We offer a range of well-being initiatives, including private medical insurance, excellent parental leave, a working globally policy, mental health support, assistance programs, and social gatherings. We also provide a pension scheme and various other benefit schemes. Plus, we all get our birthdays off work and enjoy 25 days of holiday per year.
  • We’ve also got you covered with life assurance and exclusive perks like the Star card and our Step Further Awards (our employee recognition program) to recognise your dedication. For those working via the hybrid model (in the office and at home) we’ve made commuting easier with our Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • You can also take advantage of complimentary access to our Racing Post Members Club, complete with an Ultimate Membership. We believe in making a positive impact beyond the workplace, and you'll have the chance to volunteer two days per year with our charity partner.
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Soft Skills
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