Sarah Stephenson

Product Manager

Oxford, England, United Kingdom12 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in social media.
  • Expert in LinkedIn paid strategy and thought leadership.
  • Proven track record in B2B and B2C environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Social Media Marketing expert with extensive experience in B2B and B2C sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Social Media StrategyTeam LeadershipProject ManagementAdvertising

Other Skills

Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media MarketingDigital StrategyPhotographyPublic RelationsBrand DevelopmentGraphicsTime ManagementDigital Project ManagementPaid Social Media AdvertisingPaid Social MediaLinkedInLinkedin MarketingTwitterTwitter Marketing

About

Director, Social Media with over 10 years+ of experience in B2B and B2C Social Media, having worked both in-house and agency side. Currently at tmp, I lead the global Social Media team, shaping the vision, strategy, and operational excellence of our social offering. My priority is the growth and well-being of my high-performing team, ensuring they have the support, guidance, and clarity they need to deliver exceptional work. I specialise in LinkedIn paid strategy and thought leadership programmes for global tech clients, advising senior stakeholders on best practice and long-term brand growth. I oversee the end-to-end strategy and execution of all global organic and paid social activity, ensuring we deliver consistently against KPIs and drive meaningful impact across complex B2B environments.

Experience

12 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs
Average Tenure
9 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Tmp

7 roles

Director, Social Media

Promoted

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos

  • My key focus is the growth, development, and well-being of my high-performing team, ensuring they have the support, guidance, and clarity they need to deliver exceptional work.
  • I am a passionate leader and always aim to provide support and guidance to help my team excel within their own social media career paths.
  • Within my role I am responsible for all client's social activity at a global scale. From growing paid social channels, providing social consultancy, running workshops, and guiding brands through an ever-changing landscape. I build strong relationships with clients and platform partners, champion best practice, and ensure our social work is grounded in creativity, insight, and real business impact.
Social Media Best PracticesTeam LeadershipSocial Media StrategyAdvertisingSocial Media MarketingDigital Strategy+1

Head of Social Media

Promoted

Jan 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • I lead social programmes end-to-end, from audience strategy and creative direction to full-funnel paid activation across platforms. With a deep understanding of how organic and paid work together, I focus on building scalable social programmes, improving performance through data-led testing, and helping brands show up with clarity and impact. I am passionate about developing teams, elevating social within organisations, and turning insights into results.
  • I work hard to provide excellent operational, project management, and communications skills to build and maintain strong client relationships both internally and externally.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertisingProject Management

Associate Director, Social Media

Mar 2022Dec 2022 · 9 mos

  • Having doubled the size of the Social Media team within the space of a year I take on a consultancy approach to social media. Working with global B2B Tech leaders I ensure everything that the social media team work on is completed with operational excellence and delivering against KPIs and targets for all organic and paid social media work.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Senior Social Media Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I lead a team that is responsible for the strategy and delivery of all organic and paid social media client work at The Marketing Practice, ensuring that the projects and KPIs align to the plan and targets set.
  • My role sees the ownership of the planning and execution of all global social media campaigns across multiple platforms, including responsibility for budget management and meeting or exceeding KPIs.
  • Working closely with the Head of Outbound, we deliver Social Selling Best Practice workshops to help our clients excel with their Social Selling efforts. My involvement with the workshops teaches Social Profile best practice and how organic social can drive sales efforts.
  • I am also responsible for the TMP Business Brain programme, an influencer programme, creating social media strategies, content, and engagement opportunities for CXO decision-makers.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertisingProject Management

Senior Social Media Lead

Jun 2020Dec 2020 · 6 mos

  • As Senior Social Media Lead, I work closely with the Social Media Executive in the team and other departments within The Marketing Practice to take both a creative and commercial approach to campaigns, projects, and accountability to achieve deadlines and results.
  • To help deliver the above, I stay on top of current trends, technology, and best practice to help develop and communicate innovative and commercially successful new and updated propositions.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Social Media Manager

Promoted

Oct 2017May 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Promoted to Social Media Manager, I run the TMP Business Brains programme, a programme where I manage CXO global social profiles. This allows me to work with external agencies, build relationships and report to various senior stakeholders – both internally and externally.
  • A large proportion of my role involves creating and running paid social campaigns at TMP (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Xing) which includes upfront campaign planning, project management, writing social copy, daily budget management, optimisation and reporting.
  • Most recently, I had the opportunity to provide the O2 sales team with weekly social listening emails, helping to form part of the ABM 100 campaign for O2 Business. The campaign won the 2017 B2B award for Most Commercially Successful Campaign and was runner up for Best Sales And Marketing Integration.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Social Media Executive

May 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Created monthly social listening reports that shared insight into what was being spoken about in the market. Alongside monthly reporting, was responsible for creating social innovation reports, sharing the latest updates and changes to social channels and sharing with clients
  • Predominantly working across Twitter and LinkedIn, was responsible for creating social content for O2 Business.
  • Worked on LinkedIn Demand Generation InMail campaigns, which include full profile audits before and continuous reporting and client contact throughout.
  • Clients worked on: O2, Aruba, HPE, Microsoft, Xerox, Salesforce and Capgemini.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Zest digital

Social Media Executive

Apr 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Oxford, England, United Kingdom

  • Working agency side, was asked to manage, create, and look after the social media channels for clients and also for Zest.
  • Was held responsible to make sure all channels were kept active and engaged. In total, was accountable for over twenty client’s social media channels.
  • To manage time cost efficiently, used scheduling and reporting tools such as: Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Sprout Social, Bit.ly, UTM code trackers and Buffer.
  • Along organic social posts, also worked confidently, and regularly, on paid social campaigns across: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
  • As an added extra to the role, wrote monthly about social media on the Zest Digital blog.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Ridge and partners llp

Social Media Coordinator

Oct 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Oxford, England, United Kingdom

  • Responsible for producing the social strategy and social content for all of the Ridge social media channels: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube and Instagram.
  • Alongside social media, responsible for the business blog and internal a monthly internal newsletter.
  • When starting the job, the social media channels had only just been created. Was asked to create a tone of voice for the channels, build up a following from day one, create new digital exposure for the business and design guidelines and give training to help other members of staff use and update their own social media (LinkedIn and Twitter) for business use.
  • Regularly used platforms such as: Hootsuite, Bit.ly, and Google Analytics for reporting and tracking of how popular the social content was.
  • Was an active member of the Ridge Social Committee. Within this committee helped plan, create and organise events that the business hosted. Alongside this, incorporated the events with content for the social media channels making sure the events got as much exposure and media attention as possible.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Splendid communications group

Digital Account Assistant

Aug 2013Oct 2013 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Working closely with the digital and social media team, the opportunity was given to work across a broad range of accounts, creating live social content for clients:
  • Marmite: Facebook and Twitter content. Created both the copy and the images. Created a mini campaign called 'Marmite Muddles'. The campaign promoted the best recipes to mix Marmite with and encouraged users to send in their favourite 'muddles'.
  • Blossom Hill: Facebook content. Created both the copy and the images.
  • Pot Noodle: Twitter content. Created the copy and filmed Vine videos.
  • Smirnoff Vodka: Facebook content. Created both the copy and the images.
  • Stork: Held a live Q&A Twitter session.
  • Also given the opportunity to work within PR, creating exciting pieces of copy and participating in creative brainstorms to help win pitches for new business.
Social Media Best PracticesSocial Media StrategyAdvertising

Ais london

Creative Intern

Mar 2013Mar 2013 · 0 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Advertising placement working with student Alex Phipps. Working alongside the creative teams within AIS.
  • Learning how the advertising industry works, and given many opportunities to produce work that went straight to the clients: KIA and Vodafone.
  • Worked on pitches for various other campaigns - with the biggest success of having one piece of work sent out to over five-hundred clients.

Lean mean fighting machine ltd

Creative Intern

Mar 2012Mar 2012 · 0 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Placement opportunity with fellow student Kristiane Buckett. Given first-hand experience to work within in a digital team.
  • Responsibilities were to produce creative banners, game ideas, and to create work for new business across different areas within social media.
  • The company also shared an office with 'Hoot Comedy'. Asked to work on copy for clients to help expand their business. The work that was produced was sent to the client.

Lewis design studio

Creative Intern

Jan 2012Jan 2012 · 0 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

  • An internship opportunity, gaining first-hand experience into what it was like to work within a design studio.
  • Responsible for working on a broad range of clients and given the opportunity to work on the rebranding of the Lewis Design website
  • The work carried out involved using skills such as: copywriting, art direction, graphics design, Adobe Photoshop and gaining first-hand knowledge from Martin.

Education

Buckinghamshire New University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — Advertising

Jan 2010Jan 2013

Activate Learning

National Diploma — Graphic Design

Jan 2008Jan 2010

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