Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to plan, implement, manage and monitor the social media strategies for our client and its social media customers.
This role will be the ‘go to’ person for all paid social strategy and recommendations and will work alongside Account Managers, Business Development and Head of Department to make sure clients are delivered high quality, commercially viable solutions. This role needs to have a high level of understanding of the current industry trends. As well as being client facing, the Paid Social Manager is expected to mentor and train other paid social team members and provide constructive peer review on tasks being completed. The quality of the paid social performance lies within this role.
It is important for the person in this role to be organised, accurately logging their time, and being able to effectively distribute workload to more junior team members. This role is expected to advise on the best paid social practices and draw on previous experience to make realistic and commercially viable solutions to problems. The Paid Social Manager needs to have a high level of commercial awareness and excellent communication and project management skills.
Primary Measures
Delivering a high-quality social product to clients from strategy through to implementation and reporting
Deliver proactive and innovative solutions within the platforms
Establish a strong relationship with the social platforms
Liaise with other Biddable Media counterparts for integrated response strategies
Work with Finance department to ensure payments and client billing is done in an efficient manner
Main Activities
Client Support
Preparation and execution of client pitches, including strategy guidance, forecasting, pricing and planning of resources.
Functioning as the active point of communication for clients and leading regular planning and progression meetings.
Proactively approach clients with new opportunities
To develop social media strategies ingrained in insight, and plans that ladder back to client’s business and campaign objectives
To present strategies clearly and effectively
To manage client expectations and agency workflow by establishing efficient processes
Grow current client investment in social platforms through testing and successful results
Initiate conversations with new/non-social clients regarding the opportunities for testing
Social Activation
Strong working knowledge of current and developing social media techniques
Knowledge in planning campaigns that deliver against client’s objectives
Knowledge of technical social implementation (including Ads Manager, Twitter Ads Manager, LinkedIn Ads Manager, understanding of native and organic management of social channels)
Ability to establish ongoing relationships with the social platforms
Knowledge of both first and third party data opportunities with the ability to both collect the data in a secure way and integrate into audience planning
Innate curiosity in social and the willingness to continue learning and applying new developments
Reporting
To build reporting templates and analysis documents that support client requirements
To create regular and insightful reports into the success of social media campaign
Ability to draw out meaningful insight from results and apply this to future planning
Input finances into the system for efficient and accurate billing
The above list of duties is not exclusive or exhaustive, and the role holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the role.
Skills & Capabilities
Demonstrate proficiency in technical and customer-facing situations
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
High analytical problem-solving experience
Highly organised
Advanced understanding (& qualifications) in industry recognised social media tools
Additional skills that are beneficial to this role include:
Experience with other Biddable Media channels
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