Social Media Marketing Manager

Location: East Belfast, Head Office
Contract: Permanent, Part-Time
Working Pattern: 3 days per week, with the potential to increase to 4 days
Hours: 8.00am to 4.30pm
Working Arrangement: Office-based
Reporting to: Managing Director
Salary: £35k-£40k FTE, dependent on experience

An Exciting New Opportunity at Argento

Are you passionate about social media, content creation and building brands that customers love?

Do you combine creative thinking with the commercial awareness to turn great content into measurable results?

Argento Contemporary Jewellery is excited to introduce a brand-new Social Media Marketing Manager position within the business.

As a newly created role, this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, creative and commercially minded social media professional to make the role their own, helping to shape and develop Argento's social media presence and bring fresh ideas, creativity and specialist expertise to the business.

Founded in Belfast in 1997, Argento has grown into one of the UK and Ireland's leading fashion jewellers, with more than 25 stores and a thriving online business. Our collections include globally recognised jewellery and watch brands alongside our own home-grown brands.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established retail business while stepping into a new position where you can have a genuine influence on how our social media presence develops.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, you will take ownership of developing and delivering Argento's organic and paid social media strategy, creating engaging content that strengthens our brands, connects with our customers and supports wider commercial objectives.

This is a creative, commercial and hands-on role. You'll develop social strategy, create and edit content, manage campaigns and paid social activity, identify emerging trends and use performance insights to continually develop our approach.

Collaboration will be central to the role. You'll work closely with the E-commerce Manager, Marketing Manager and Creative Director, while liaising with the CEO and wider business to ensure social activity supports marketing campaigns, e-commerce priorities, creative direction, product launches and key retail trading periods.

As this is a newly created position, you'll also have the opportunity to help shape how the social media function develops, identifying new ideas, approaches and opportunities to strengthen Argento's digital presence.

• Develop and deliver Argento's organic and paid social media strategy across key platforms.
• Plan engaging campaigns supporting brand growth, product launches, new collections, promotions and key retail trading periods.
• Manage a structured social content calendar while remaining responsive to emerging trends and opportunities.
• Act as the Company's social media specialist, identifying new platforms, formats and opportunities for growth.

• Create, coordinate and edit high-quality content including photography, graphics, reels, short-form video, stories and copy.
• Develop engaging platform-specific content for channels including Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok and Linked In.
• Bring our products, stores, people and brands to life through engaging social-first storytelling.
• Work closely with the Creative Director to ensure content reflects the Company's creative direction, visual identity and tone of voice.

• Plan, manage and optimise paid social campaigns and agreed budgets.
• Monitor performance against agreed KPIs including reach, engagement, audience growth, website traffic, conversion and return on advertising spend.
• Use campaign results, data and customer insights to continually improve performance.
• Provide regular updates, insights and recommendations to the Managing Director and relevant stakeholders.

• Oversee social communities, ensuring comments, messages and brand mentions are managed appropriately and in line with our customer service standards.
• Build positive customer engagement and identify useful customer feedback and emerging themes.
• Stay ahead of social trends, platform developments, competitor activity and developments across retail, fashion and jewellery.
• Identify relevant influencer, creator and user-generated content opportunities.

• Work closely with the E-commerce Manager to support online trading priorities, customer acquisition, website traffic and…