Company Overview
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
Fanatics Collectibles is looking for a Social Media Manager to be responsible for the management & posting of content daily across Topps’ social media channels (inclusive of TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitch) as well as identify new and emerging platforms in which to participate in the UK. This role will also lead all marketing and PR activities across social media. As Social Media Manager you will work cross-functionally to ensure Brand, Marketing and Sales initiatives are communicated and promoted accordingly from Topps channels. You will oversee the Topps content calendar, identifying key dates across the various properties to plan and create relevant, engaging content.
Responsibilities:
- Creation and execution of the long-term social media strategy for the UK
- Manage influencers relation (micro and macro) organizing with them all kind of activations, sending them the latest collections, briefing them on our collections and monitoring their content
- Support development of social content calendars and handle daily publishing across a suite of social media platforms (Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram)
- Create social media account from scratch in platforms where we are not present (i.e., TikTok)
- Create content and content briefs for social media content and update throughout the month as needed
- Partner with creative teams to execute video and still image content
- QA posts to make sure they have been tagged, published, and linked properly
- Comfortable working nights/weekends when necessary
- Contribute to community management across social channels and follow guidelines. and tone-of-voice to actively engage and respond to followers
- Develop post copy in brand voice(s)
- Monitor social media trends and make recommendations for quick-turn creative and ongoing strategy or opportunities
- Assist with strategy for product launches, events, and big sports moments
- Provide competitive and industry-wide research and reporting
- Analyse performance and share learnings to improve performance against KPIs
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree and 3+ years of experience working in social media and influencer management
- Proficiency in best practices and publishing tools for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube
- Comfortable working with social media publishing and monitoring tools
- Experience/enthusiasm around working in a Sports related field is strongly preferred, with priority given to collectors
- Experience managing a base of influencers of all kinds
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and extremely organized
- Flexible and independent, with the ability to work effectively both autonomously and within a team
- Works well under pressure, in a fast-paced international environment
- Passion for social media, sports, and the pop culture entertainment landscape
- Selected candidate must be fully fluent in English
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Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.
Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.
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