Senior Short Form Manager (Maternity Cover)

We’re looking for an experienced and audience-focused Senior Short Form Manager to join us on a maternity cover basis. You will step into a high-impact role, providing strategic direction across three distinctive brands and ensuring social activity continues to support wider brand, marketing and commercial objectives.

This role combines leadership with hands-on delivery. You will lead campaign planning, oversee content from brief to publication, manage competing priorities and use performance insight to strengthen activity and identify opportunities to grow audiences and engagement.

Working closely with Marketing, Creative, PR, Programming, Editorial and Compliance, you will build trusted relationships and provide clear, confident recommendations. You will also lead and support the Video Editor, guiding them to deliver high-quality content and bring our brands to life across a fast-moving digital landscape.

This is a 14 month fixed-term and part-time position, working 30 hours per week (4 days). This role will be hybrid based, working in the London office Tuesday-Thursday.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver social and short-form strategies across the three brands.
• Lead social planning for programme launches, campaigns and key business priorities.
• Manage campaign timelines, content plans, publishing schedules and competing deadlines.
• Lead, coach and develop the Video Editor through regular feedback, clear priorities and ongoing development opportunities.
• Brief, prioritise and oversee the production of short-form video and social assets, ensuring output supports campaign objectives and brand standards.
• Review and approve copy, creative and video content before publication, ensuring quality, consistency and compliance.
• Build strong relationships with Marketing, Creative, PR, Programming, Editorial and Compliance.
• Represent social in cross-functional meetings and provide clear strategic recommendations.
• Oversee content publishing across social and video platforms, ensuring activity is audience-focused, on-brand and optimised for each platform.
• Monitor campaign and channel performance, using insight to improve future activity.
• Identify opportunities to grow audiences, improve engagement and maximise revenue through data-led insight, platform innovation and new content opportunities.
• Manage resource planning, workflows, purchase orders and operational requirements where needed.
• Identify risks, resolve issues and keep multiple projects moving in a fast-paced environment.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate the following key competencies:

• Leading and supervising
• Formulating strategies and concepts
• Planning and organising
• Persuading and influencing
• Analysing

Essential Knowledge/Skills:

• Significant experience in social media, digital content or campaign management.
• Proven experience developing and delivering social strategies and campaigns.
• Strong people-management and leadership skills.
• Exceptional organisation and project-management ability.
• Experience managing multiple brands, campaigns or workstreams at once.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and influencing skills.
• Strong editorial judgement, copywriting and communication skills.
• Experience briefing creative teams and giving clear, constructive feedback.
• Strong knowledge of major social platforms and short-form content.
• Experience using performance data and audience insight to inform decisions.

Desired Knowledge / Skills:

• Experience in television, broadcasting, entertainment or media.
• Experience working across multiple brands with distinct audiences.
• Understanding of short-form video production and creative workflows.
• Experience working with rights, legal or compliance processes.
• Knowledge of YouTube channel and Community management.

As a person you will be…

• Highly organised and proactive.
• A confident and supportive leader.
• Strategic, but comfortable managing delivery.
• A strong relationship builder.
• Calm under pressure.
• Clear, collaborative and decisive.
• Audience-focused and commercially aware.

About Us

At Hearst Networks, we share stories that matter, inspiring and exciting our audiences with hit US franchises (The Curse of Oak Island, Pawn Stars), must-see docudramas (Royal Kill List and Colosseum), and original commissions (Sex: A Bonkers History with Amanda Holden, Royal Autopsy, Cops Gone Bad with Will Mellor). Over the past few years we’ve championed our own original programming and relished in the successes of recent series’ such as The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd, Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Royal Mob.

We welcome talented candidates with infectious enthusiasm who love what they do, and are ready to learn, develop and thrive. Here you’ll find a community of innovative, creative and inspiring people who aren’t afraid to embrace responsibility and try new things collaboratively, as a team.

We are a certified Great Place to Work® with a can-do, motivated culture that believes in working to live, not just living to work. Every employee has a voice and is encouraged to be themselves and be ambitious. With offices in Rome, Madrid, London, Warsaw, Munich and Johannesburg, we are a truly international organisation that celebrates difference and diversity.

As an inclusive employer, we value the diversity of our teams and want our workforce to reflect our wider society. We encourage and welcome applications from people from under-represented backgrounds and are keen to make sure we are inclusive and accessible to all. Please do let us know if you require any adjustments or assistance for meetings and communications with you when you apply for a role with us.

Hearst Networks Values

Curiosity is what drives us to question, explore, and innovate. We approach challenges with an open mind, ready to grow and evolve as the world changes around us. When we stay curious, we keep learning, discovering fresh opportunities, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Courage is showing up as your true self, with confidence and heart, even when the road ahead feels uncertain. It’s about owning our choices, stepping beyond our comfort zone, and creating new paths and opportunities to explore for both our company and yourself.

Care is part of everything we do - how we treat each other, approach our work, connect with our partners and the world. It’s about creating a culture where everyone feels included, respected, and truly supported. By acting with care, we nurture trust within our teams, building meaningful relationships throughout our company.