The Role
Join our dynamic team as a Director specialising in Paid Social and embark on a journey of innovation and impact across leading platforms like Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and more! We're not just looking for team members; we're seeking passionate individuals ready to redefine the landscape of social media marketing within our Paid Social specialism.
As a Paid Social Director, you'll play a pivotal role as a channel lead, collaborating seamlessly with the client's projects and guiding a team of managers, executives, and assistants to deliver business outcomes through paid social activations. Beyond managing client accounts, you'll be a driving force in the growth and innovation of our Paid Social specialism. Building and leading a high-performing team will be at the heart of your responsibilities, fostering career development, personal growth, and a shared culture of connection, experience, and growth.
This client-facing role extends both externally and internally, engaging with client teams, planners, digital specialists, and client servicing. You'll work closely with the Paid Social Partner to develop a cutting-edge strategy that not only meets, but exceeds, our client's business objectives. As a positive disruptor, you'll be instrumental in delivering best-practice social activation at scale and contributing to new business pitches, shaping the future of our Total Social proposition. Join us in pushing the boundaries and making a mark in the ever-evolving world of social media marketing!
Life as a Paid Social Director
Paid Social Campaign Delivery & Oversight
Lead the development of Paid Social strategies, media plans and response to briefs. Defining KPIs, measurement solutions, and shaping the overall strategy to meet client business objectives.
Responsible for creating a sophisticated Test & Learn roadmap, which expands across multiple social platforms and outlines clear frameworks for the effective measurement of paid social, aligned to client business objectives.
Client Engagement Responsibilities
Act as the connective tissue between the paid social team, client servicing team, other stakeholders (as needed), and the client - ensuring seamless collaboration.
Represent the team in various client meetings, including status updates, briefings, campaign reviews, and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs).
Partner Relationship Management
Develop and nurture effective working relationships with partners such as Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, and emerging social/content amplification platforms.
Team Leadership and Excellence
Ensure the timely and precise delivery of work within your team, championing effective work practices embraced by all team members. Including the effective implementation of our Quality Assurance processes, to meet the goal of 100% error-free activations within your client remit.
Commercial Success and Financial Mastery
Take charge of the punctual and accurate billing and reconciliation of campaign media investment and income, guaranteeing suppliers are paid promptly. This extends to ensuring accurate forecasting of income, to support the Partner in fulfilling their fiscal responsibilities to the business.
Product Development & New Business
Professional Skills
What we are looking for in you
A few of the benefits
In addition to the 25 days annual leave (full time employees), you are also able to take an additional day’s leave for your birthday, up to three to focus on your wellbeing and two days to volunteer in your community.
Access to lifestyle benefits and schemes such as Cycle to work, Season Ticket loan, GymFlex, Tastecard, Retail discounts and many more.
Diversity and Inclusion
Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.
