Senior Paid Media Manager United Kingdom Paid Media
The role
Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence.
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Our 1,300-strong global team is passionate about all things social. We were born from an understanding of how socially-led ideas can connect people. This is still at the core of everything we do. Collaboration is key to our achievements. We share our ideas and knowledge across our whole network, so we learn and improve together.
This is an opportunity to shape music culture, by tapping into the unstoppable collective power of music fans. We are building a pan-European team of music and podcast obsessives, to make our client, a loved, respected and authentic presence in the lives and feeds of music fans.
Our shared task is to deliver creative excellence and brand love with a young adult audience. That means balancing big-brand consistency with hyper-relevant, hyper-local nuance. We need social natives and audio enthusiasts; people who operate on the fringes of platforms. The funniest meme makers, the fastest workers, self-starters, self-shooters and social media managers.
About You
We are looking for a Senior Paid Media Manager who has experience developing full-funnel paid media strategies & media plans, managing paid social campaigns, and buying/optimising social ads across multiple DSPs (Demand Side Platforms). They must also be comfortable in leading client accounts, managing their own work-streams across accounts, and are effective in collaborating with various teams to deliver quality client work.
Requirements
This role is ideal for someone who is qualified to:
- Directly impact the business potential of paid media at WAS UK
- Help win new business for the agency
- Independently manage paid social campaigns – from briefing to post-reporting
- Strengthen client relationships – by achieving results & delivering quality service
What does the role involve?
- Leading paid strategic direction & conducting media buys on multiple accounts, working closely with all teams across the agency
- Dealing directly with senior marketing clients on a daily basis, helping to build strong relationships and being a source of knowledge
- Telling stories through paid data – helping clients make the most of their media investments
- Investigate campaign and market trends, conduct competitor analysis, and provide campaign insight
- Provide support on new business pitches and proposals
What are we looking for?
- Paid social experience – strategizing, planning & executing multi-tiered, multi-channels campaigns – with a demonstrable track record in achieving and exceeding KPI’s
- Experience in DSPs of at least 3 social platforms: Meta, TikTok, Youtube (Google Ads), LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat, and/or Pinterest
- Experience in pitching (and winning) new business
- Able to lead & manage client relationships
- Strong management skills – in both project planning and delegation
- Proactively identify actionable optimisations and insights that maximise business impact and fuel future investments
- Proven competency in digital measurement and analytics
- Ability to train others and encourage knowledge sharing
- The knowledge and expertise to manage digital campaign execution and oversee/guide team members on day-to-day responsibilities
Benefits
- 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 day for each year of service (capped at 30 days)
- Hybrid office and home working (minimum of 2 days a week in the London office)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company Pension scheme
- Group Income Protection
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Comprehensive internal and external staff training programme
- Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan scheme
- Optional sabbaticals after 3 & 5 years
- Employee Long Service Awards at 5 & 10 years
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Social clubs and regular agency events
- Free office breakfast and snacks