Social Media Data Analyst

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Machine_ Full time

Company Description
**About the agency**

Machine_ is a TTL creative solutions agency represented across Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban, and is home to over 150 adventurous minds. At Machine_ we don’t believe that intuition and gut feel are enough. That’s why everything we do starts with an insight. Our team of experts uses these insights to create impactful and accountable solutions that touch consumers at every point in their connected world.

Machine_ is part of Publicis Groupe, one of the fastest-growing global networks.

**Job Description**:
The Role:
Machine is looking for a social media analyst to join their social media team in Johannesburg. The analyst will be responsible for leading the social media analytics and reporting across the agency’s portfolio of clients.

Minimum Criteria & Position details:

- A minimum of 3 years Social Media planning and analytics experience in either an agency or client team.
- Tertiary Marketing and/or Advertising qualification, with social media certifications.
- Proven experience on in the interpretation of data for social media content optimization.

The Social Media Analyst you will be responsible for:
Specific Responsibilities:

- Mine social data for insights that can both show ROI and drive strategy.
- Provide strategists with high quality insights and recommendations to help drive business objectives.
- Upfront strategic guidance using social listening tools and other relevant research data/tools.
- Track performance of various social media outputs and develop/implement changes to improve business results.
- Support SEO strategies, including optimizing keywords in content marketing projects.
- Research how emerging social networks and features can benefit our clients.
- Continuous improvement in terms of reporting and providing insights, this can include data visualisation.
- Strengthen our client’s online presence and brand awareness through effective social media strategies and campaigns.
- Keeping abreast of current events and pop culture to better understand user behaviour.
- Oversee and help to create content for use on social media channels.
- Oversee and create analytical, website and social listening reports to simply visualize actionable insights of social data for content improvement.
- Development and implementation of competitive research/insights.

Business Skills:

- Strong analytical and strategic skills.
- Ability to translate data into practical insights that assist with content optimization.
- Strong understanding of digital and social landscape and platforms, ad formats, performance metrics (owned, earned and paid) and social media best practice.
- Superb inter-personal skills and a passion for creating content for brands on social media channels.
- Ability to engage directly with client, present reports, take and implement feedback.
- Ability to work well as part of a team.
- Have an 'always-on' approach to life.
- Highly organised with an ability to multi-task.
- Proven experience in working with social media tools for scheduling, reporting and gaining insights across all major platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube). Examples of tools:

- Hootsuite
- Falcon
- Crimson Hexagon
- Brandwatch
- Sprinklr
- Sprout Social

**Qualifications**:
Personality
- Strong analytical and strategic skills.
- Ability to work well as part of a team.
- Curious and solution orientated mindset.
- Confident in a high-performance deadline driven environment.

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