Social Media & Performance Marketing Executive
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About the Role
Dunkin' UAE is hiring a Social Media & Performance Marketing Executive to own the brand's social media presence end-to-end. The role includes content planning, scripting, paid media coordination, reporting, and community management oversight.
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Responsibilities
- Manage Dunkin's social media platforms end to end, including content calendar planning and execution.
- Develop content ideas, write scripts, and direct content creation for short form videos and posts.
- Coordinate with third party media agencies for paid media campaigns and review performance.
- Track social media performance weekly and monthly, prepare reports with insights and recommendations.
- Oversee community management, ensuring responses are friendly, professional, and timely.
- Support influencer and creator content planning and review content for brand fit.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in social media, content creation, content management, and digital marketing
- Understanding of social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube Shorts)
- Ability to create and direct content, write scripts, and develop content plans
- Working understanding of paid social and performance marketing basics
- Strong analytical skills to track and optimize performance
Full Job Posting
About the Company
- Dunkin’ UAE is looking for a social media superstar to own the brand’s social media presence end to end.
About the Role
- The purpose of this role is to make Dunkin’ UAE more relevant, consistent, creative, and high performing across social media.
Social Media Ownership
- Manage Dunkin’s social media platforms end to end, including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube Shorts, and any other relevant emerging platforms.
- Own the full social media calendar from planning to execution.
- Plan daily, weekly, and monthly content across platforms.
- Ensure all content is aligned with Dunkin’s brand voice, campaign goals, and audience interests.
- Keep the pages active, relevant, engaging, and culturally aware.
- Monitor platform updates, content formats, trends, and competitor activity.
- Identify relevant trends and recommend how Dunkin’ can use them in a smart, brand safe, and timely way.
- Make sure the brand stays fresh, fun, and ahead of competitors.
- Coordinate with internal teams, agencies, creators, influencers, designers, videographers, and production partners when needed.
- Ensure captions, copy, stories, reels, TikToks, and posts are clear, engaging, accurate, and error free.
Content Creation, Direction & Scripting
- Develop content ideas for Reels, TikToks, stories, posts, campaigns, launches, and brand moments.
- Write scripts for short form videos, influencer content, product videos, campaign videos, and trend based content.
- Understand hooks, pacing, retention, storytelling, captions, CTAs, and what makes people watch until the end.
- Prepare creative concepts, shot lists, storyboards, and content directions for shoots.
- Support content shoots and help ensure the final output matches the original idea and objective.
- Guide creators, influencers, videographers, editors, and designers on the required content direction.
- Identify opportunities for behind the scenes content, UGC, reactive content, employee led content, store led content, and community led storytelling.
- Make sure content feels natural, current, engaging, and not generic or overly corporate.
Creative Ideas & Campaign Support
- Bring fresh campaign ideas for product launches, seasonal campaigns, cultural moments, national days, store activations, and brand initiatives.
- Think of new ways to make Dunkin’ more relevant to Gen Z, families, students, office goers, creators, and wider UAE audiences.
- Support campaign brainstorming from concept to execution.
- Suggest creative formats such as content series, challenges, influencer formats, interactive stories, street style content, UGC ideas, community moments, and real time social content.
- Research what other brands are doing locally and globally, then suggest how Dunkin’ can do better or do it differently.
- Help turn Dunkin’ campaigns into memorable social media moments.
- Look for opportunities to connect content with real life events, stores, communities, collaborations, and activations.
- Bring proactive recommendations on what can be improved across content, campaigns, captions, visuals, and platform strategy.
Paid Media Coordination & Performance Marketing Understanding
- Work closely with third party media agencies or partners handling paid ads.
- Prepare clear briefs for paid media campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, and other relevant platforms.
- Understand the basics of campaign objectives such as awareness, engagement, traffic, app installs, conversions, reach, video views, and store visits.
- Review paid media plans and make sure they align with campaign goals, target audiences, budgets, timings, and creative direction.
- Understand key performance metrics such as reach, impressions, engagement rate, CTR, CPC, CPM, video views, watch time, conversions, and ROAS.
- Identify which organic content has strong potential to be boosted or used as paid creative.
- Share creative recommendations based on campaign results and platform performance.
- Work with the agency to test different hooks, captions, creatives, audiences, formats, placements, and CTAs.
- Make sure paid campaigns are not just running, but are being optimized with clear reasoning.
- Connect organic content learnings with paid media strategy.
- Ask the right questions, follow up on performance, and make sure media partners are accountable.
Analytics, Reporting & Optimization
- Track social media performance weekly and monthly.
- Analyze what content is working, what is not working, and why.
- Prepare clear and simple performance reports with insights, observations, and recommended next steps.
- Identify patterns in audience behavior, content formats, posting times, hooks, topics, and campaign results.
- Use data to improve future content quality and campaign effectiveness.
- Recommend next steps based on actual performance, not assumptions.
- Monitor follower growth, engagement, reach, views, saves, shares, comments, link clicks, content retention, and platform specific metrics.
- Create a testing mindset across content by trying different formats, hooks, captions, and creative directions.
Community Management Oversight
- Manage and guide the person responsible for community management.
- Ensure comments, DMs, tags, mentions, and customer conversations are monitored properly.
- Make sure customer responses are friendly, professional, timely, and aligned with Dunkin’s tone of voice.
- Review and improve response guidelines, FAQs, escalation processes, and customer communication standards.
- Ensure complaints, sensitive messages, influencer inquiries, partnership requests, and operational issues are escalated to the right internal teams.
- Monitor the quality of replies to make sure there are no spelling mistakes, tone issues, incorrect information, or unprofessional responses.
- Identify UGC opportunities from tagged posts, customer content, creator posts, and community conversations.
- Track recurring customer comments, complaints, questions, and feedback, then share useful insights with the wider team.
- Make sure Dunkin’ feels human, warm, responsive, and consistent online.
Influencer, Creator & UGC Support
- Support influencer and creator content planning when required.
- Help brief influencers clearly on concepts, scripts, deliverables, messaging, and content direction.
- Review influencer content from a social first and brand fit perspective.
- Identify creators, UGC opportunities, and content collaborations that could help the brand stay relevant.
- Suggest creator led formats that feel authentic and platform native.
- Coordinate with teams or agencies involved in influencer selection, approvals, and content delivery.
Brand Voice, Quality Control & Professional Standards
- Maintain a strong understanding of Dunkin’s tone of voice across all social platforms.
- Ensure content is fun, friendly, professional, accurate, and brand safe.
- Make sure posts, captions, scripts, replies, and campaign copy are free from spelling mistakes and careless errors.
- Ensure all content follows internal brand guidelines and approval processes.
- Protect the brand from content that may feel inappropriate, off brand, insensitive, or poorly timed.
- Keep improving content standards across the brand’s social media output.
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