Social Media Production Manager

Department: Digital Engagement & Marketing Department

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Contract Type: Open-ended

Activity Level: 100%

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the guardian of the Olympic Games and the leader of the Olympic Movement. A truly global organisation, it acts as a catalyst for collaboration between all Olympic stakeholders, including athletes, National Olympic Committees (NOCs), International Sports Federations (IFs), Organising Committees for the Olympic Games (OCOGs), Worldwide Olympic Partners, and Media Rights-Holders. It also works with public and private authorities, including the United Nations and other international organisations.

If you are Social Media Production Marketing and the vision to build a better world through sports inspires you, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to the Olympic Movement within the IOC.

We are seeking a Social Media Production Manager to ensure the seamless creation and alignment of content across our digital ecosystem. This leadership role is responsible for managing the end-to-end production of social media content, ensuring seamless integration across channels, and driving high-performing campaigns that support brand objectives and positioning: Sport and More than Sport.

The ideal candidate will have experience in coordinating content production teams, managing internal and external stakeholders, and maintaining creative consistency across a large-scale, multilingual, and multi-platform digital presence. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills to ensure that content production efforts effectively support the IOC’s storytelling and engagement strategy.

Main responsibilities

Content Production & Execution

• Lead the production of high-quality content across plaforms: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms, ensuring alignment with social strategy and campaign objectives.
• Manage content production timelines, resource allocation, and workflows, ensuring timely and efficient content delivery.
• Oversee content shoots, asset creation, and creative development, working with internal teams and external partners to deliver best-in-class content.
• Maintain a strong connection between creative direction and brand positioning, ensuring all content reflects the ‘Sport. And More than Sport’ brand positioning.
• Support the creation of content for the Olympic Museum handles.

Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as liaison between social media, creative, brand, marketing, and external production teams to ensure seamless collaboration.
• Work closely with marketing, PR, paid media, digital data, and analytics teams to ensure content production aligns with broader strategies.
• Coordinate across multiple teams to ensure brand storytelling remains consistent across organic, paid, and partner content.
• Manage relationships with external production teams, agencies, and freelancers, ensuring all content meets brand standards.

Content Integration Across Channels & Languages

• Ensure content production is optimized for all relevant platforms and tailored for diverse global audiences across languages.
• Work closely with language teams to ensure localization is executed effectively, maintaining cultural relevance while preserving brand consistency.
• Maintain creative and storytelling alignment across owned, earned, and paid media, ensuring seamless integration within the wider content ecosystem.

Quality Control & Brand Consistency

• Ensure all content adheres to brand guidelines, creative quality standards, and storytelling best practices.
• Act as a brand guardian by reviewing and approving creative assets to ensure alignment with the brand and social strategies.
• Implement quality control measures to maintain a consistent tone, visual identity, and messaging across platforms.

Innovation & Trend Integration

• Stay at the forefront of social media trends, new formats, and creative innovations, particularly within sports and digital storytelling.
• Identify opportunities to elevate storytelling through emerging content formats such as short-form video, interactive media, and user-generated content.
• Work with creative teams to test and implement cutting-edge content strategies that drive engagement and resonance with younger audiences.

Performance Monitoring & Content Optimization

• Collaborate with the digital data and analytics team to assess content performance and derive insights for continuous improvement.
• Use data-driven insights to refine content strategies, ensuring optimal audience engagement, reach, and impact.
• Provide recommendations for content format adjustments, creative enhancements, and platform-specific optimizations.

Project & Resource Management

• Oversee multiple content production projects simultaneously, ensuring they are executed on time and within budget.
• Manage internal and external resources, including agencies, freelancers, and content creators, to maximize production efficiency.
• Develop and maintain content calendars and production workflows to ensure alignment with campaign timelines.

Elegibility criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, or a related field (Master’s preferred).

• English fluency, with excellent writing and speaking of other languages is a plus.

• Several years of experience in social media content production and campaign management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

• Ability to coordinate multilingual and multiplatform content production, ensuring consistency across global markets

• Proven ability to manage end-to-end content production, ensuring creative quality, efficiency, and consistency.

• Strong expertise in social media storytelling, content formats, and audience engagement strategies.

• Excellent project management skills, with experience overseeing large-scale content creation efforts across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Familiarity with sports and entertainment content production, with a strong understanding of brand storytelling in the digital space.

• Experience working with external agencies, freelancers, and production partners to scale content efforts.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align and manage cross-functional teams.

Come and join an organisation where the spirit of inclusion, gender equality and diversity is embedded in its DNA and which focuses on what unites us – a passion for sport and its values. Work in a flexible and rewarding environment which offers competitive employee benefits and numerous incentives to live a sustainable, healthy and active life. By joining us, you become part of the Olympic Movement and help to build a better world through sport. You will have the opportunity to work with people of more than 70 nationalities.