Role: Paid Social Manager
Sector: SME Media Agency
Permanent:
Hybrid: 3 to 4 days in the office
Salary: £42,000
Location: Farringdon
Ref: LH20251
We are working with a young independent agency, 35 strong and one of the fastest growing agencies in the world.
Mission:
To leave the industry better than they found it. To create famous and impactful work that you want to tell your mum about. To make a living and have fun doing it.
The role of the Paid Social Manager
This role sits in our Activation team, working closely with the Planning and Data teams, and other channel specialists (e.g. audio, TV, programmatic and search). The Paid Social Manager runs campaigns end to end and implements best-in-class strategy and processes.
This is a comprehensive Planner/Buyer position, responsible for the planning and output of social campaigns. Our client strongly encourage and invest in training in other channels (such as influencers, PPC), depending on the successful applicants individual career goals and business needs.
Beyond full service management of client campaigns, this role may also cover strategic projects, audits and temporary support of clients’ in-house social activity.
The Paid Social Manager will work with the Performance Director, Head of Digital, Business Directors, and other Digital Managers to continually evaluate the market and onboard the best technology, data partners and media vendors.
Analytics, attribution and data visualisation are a key part of this role. You’ll be intrinsic in the agency’s evaluation and implementation of measurement, test and learn framework and targeting solutions, in the short and long term.
This role is very client-facing and requires someone who can see 'the bigger picture’ and understand how all channels fit together to deliver our clients’ objectives, not only their specialist disciplines. Your social activity is often part of an integrated media plan featuring both "offline" and "online" channels, and must work cohesively with these touchpoints, as well as owned and earned communications.
The role will always cover a mix of advertisers across different verticals. As a young independent agency, they regularly work with start up and scale up brands, occasionally launching advertisers' very first media activity. Therefore you need to understand onboarding/account set up processes comprehensively.
This role will include line management responsibilities, taking ownership of team members’ growth and development, ensuring they also work towards Bicycle’s key values of Drive, Balance, and Freedom.
This role reports into the Performance Director, who in turn reports to the Head of Digital.
Essential skills & experience of a Paid Social Manager:
VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawful discrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Client’s recruitment needs.
Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.