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Social and Content Marketing Recruitment

Ashdown Group specialises in finding social media and content marketing recruitment who help organisations grow their visibility, connect with audiences, and support business goals through creative campaigns. We work with companies across London and the UK to match them with candidates who have strong communication skills and sound marketing judgement, from Content Executives and Social Media Coordinators to Content Managers and Heads of Social.

Whether you want to boost your brand, engage your audience, or make your digital activity more consistent, we help you find professionals who create purposeful content and deliver it effectively across all channels. Ashdown Group is a specialist in digital, creative, communications, and marketing recruitment.

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Social and Content Marketing Roles we Recruit

We recruit across a broad range of social media, content, and audience engagement roles, including:

These roles are increasingly important for organisations that want to stay visible, relevant, and consistent on fast-changing digital channels.

Social and Content Marketing Expertise

Strong social and content professionals understand how to turn ideas into material that is useful, engaging, and right for the audience. They know how to shape content for different platforms, maintain a clear brand voice, and support wider commercial goals rather than simply publishing for the sake of activity.
We regularly recruit candidates with experience in:

  • Content marketing strategy
  • Social media management
  • Community engagement
  • Influencer marketing
  • Video and multimedia content
  • Brand storytelling
  • Audience growth strategies
  • Campaign reporting and performance analysis

We recruit professionals who have experience with major platforms and tools like LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube, WordPress, HubSpot, Canva, Hootsuite, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Interim Recruitment

We support interim and contract recruitment for:

  • Social media campaign delivery
  • Content production projects
  • Brand awareness campaigns
  • Product launches
  • Community management support
  • Short-term digital marketing initiatives
  • Maternity cover
  • Seasonal campaign activity

This gives businesses access to experienced specialists who can step in quickly during busy times, periods of growth, or when there are temporary gaps in the team.

Why Social and Content Recruitment Matters

With more competition for attention online, content and social media are now key to building awareness, trust, and customer interest. Businesses rely more on experienced specialists to help generate leads, boost engagement, and keep their messaging clear across different audiences and channels.

There is growing demand for professionals who blend creativity with business sense and understand how to measure results. The best candidates are those who can handle ideas, execution, and analysis with ease.

Why Choose Ashdown?

Our specialist marketing recruitment consultants understand the evolving brand and communications landscape and maintain strong networks across both agency and in-house environments.

Clients choose Ashdown Group because of our:

  • Specialist recruitment expertise
  • Access to high-quality passive candidates
  • Fast and effective delivery
  • Competitive recruitment fees
  • Proven track record across marketing and digital recruitment

Since 1999, Ashdown Group has supported organisations across the UK with specialist recruitment solutions across marketing, IT, HR, finance, and business support disciplines.

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If you want to hire experienced social media or content marketing professionals, or if you are looking for your next digital marketing role, get in touch with Ashdown Group today.

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Delivering the perfect campaign

If you are an employer looking for marketing talent your role will be presented to the widest reach of candidates in the market place. We will promote your vacancy to people with the skills and experience you require, delivering on a full search and selection campaign. Our aim is to represent your employer brand like we are part of your team.

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Permanent & freelance marketing recruitment

Whether you are looking for a Marketing Director to build an entire marketing team, or a freelancer to focus on urgent marketing projects, we ensure you have access to the right talented professionals, when you need them. In a fast paced industry we have instant access to a network of marketing talent to secure your next hire.

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Great clients & valued candidates

We are proud to be one of the highest rated recruitment agencies in the UK, 85% of the vacancies we work on are from repeat business. Our aim is to become a true partner to you and your business; meeting you, taking time to understand your values, conducting salary research, learning goals for the team, and the new role you are looking to fill.

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“Ashdown are a dream to work with, they are passionate and care, which results in the best candidates being placed. Communication, rapport, quality of service, quality of candidates, everything! A dream to work with, definitely not your 'typical' recruitment agency. The level and quality of service - strong candidates put forward, good rapport, easy to deal with. Fab!"

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We offer some of the most competitive fees amongst specialist marketing agencies, with exclusive rates and transparent terms available and fees starting at only 15% if given a 10 day head start. We also have a network of experienced interim, freelance marketing resources available via our contractor recruitment service.

It costs nothing to register your role and we are so confident in our ability to match the perfect candidate to the best role that we also offer a 13 week replacement guarantee.

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