Director, Social Media and Content

Purpose

Lead and oversee a team of experts in content and social media marketing that advise, enables, and execute strategies and programs to help deliver business objectives. The team includes content marketing, editorial, social media, and social listening, and acts as center of expertise across the Scotiabank footprint.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

• Leads a team of experts in content and social media, with a focus on driving the strategy and growth of over 12 owned social channels (Canadian and global) through engaging always-on/campaign content.

• Act as the Centre of Expertise for 12+ countries, helping drive strategy and best practices across Content and Social, working closely with communications, customer care, and marketing to support business objectives.

• Collaborates with key stakeholders to identify, refine, create and deliver social media plans and insights to help drive our business initiatives

• Works closely with Social and Content Leads globally to design and expand the vision of the Listening and Analytics discipline within the department and organization

• Leads the strategy for content marketing, ensuring data and analytics inform content creation (long form, and video) for the Scotiabank Advice+ Centre and other core content hubs.

• Leads the management of enterprise social tools, including support for the applications in countries, best practices, training, and introduction of new tools.

• Support strategic initiatives in response to evolving LLM/GEO landscape and implications on social, content and influencer marketing across platforms

• Manage Social Boosting strategy & execution across social platforms

• Qualifications: Nice to have paid social media experience

• Responsible for the management of the enterprise employee advocacy program for social media.

• Oversees the enterprise social channel ecosystem, ensuring channels work cohesively across our footprint. (channel management, opening/closing channels, new platforms)

• Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates and models the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams.

• Champions a high-performance environment and demonstrates a commitment to Scotiabank’s values: accountability, passion, integrity and respect. Delivers results in accordance to Scotiabank behavioural competencies. Creates an inclusive team culture and an environment where team members hear, share, and appreciate diverse perspectives.

• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct, and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment. Uses coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vision/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Do you have the skills to enable you to be successful in this role? We would love to work with you if you have: