Paid Social Senior Executive - Global Media Agency

• A global data and measurement-driven media agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world.
• The agency is more than 1,800 people strong, manages $4B in annualized media spend and deploys campaigns in 106 markets via 20 offices in APAC, EMEA and North America.
• The team is responsible for providing thoughtful and exciting recommendations for Search, Social, Display, and Video, owning supplier relationships, and then executing those recommendations expertly.
• The Media Activation team leverages their mastery of each channel to make sure its recommendations are consistently excellent and innovative, and that in-channel performance and data integrity is maximized.

The Role

• Management of designated campaigns & accounts, including campaign pacing & campaign hygiene, as well as recommending and executing on improvements via optimisation
• Contribute to the testing plans of your clients, suggest new ideas for testing and own this for your channel, including planning, executing & evaluating tests with methodical accuracy
• Responsible for producing campaign reports, including data inputting and providing insightful commentary and strategic recommendations for clients
• Ensuring platform accounts align to all channel best practices, and also contributing to the ongoing evolution of best practice for your primary channel
• Managing campaign launches across all relevant channels
• Responsible for In-flight campaign optimisation
• Providing assistance and mentoring for new starters
• Interact effectively within your client team, and with the client & suppliers for your account (and taking some level of client comms ownership within your account)
• Assist with internal data maintenance, issue identification and solution development that your team conducts
• Responsible for sending external RFPs to publishers

You

• Proven experience (1-2 years) at Account Executive level in a Digital Media or Advertising role, specifically within Paid Social
• Experience in managing biddable media accounts across multiple markets
• Experience with planning and running paid social activity on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, either directly or via third-party platforms (e.g. 4C)
• Detail-oriented and responsive, with strong quantitative reasoning skills; you must be able to analyse data, draw conclusions and develop actionable recommendations as needed
• Adaptable and able to flex with changes in prioritisation to meet new or changed goals (including re. developing new skills)
• Strong communication skills
• Strong organisational skills; ability to implement and adhere to and meet deadlines, and project-manage multiple campaigns
• Good general knowledge of (and passion for) all areas of digital marketing and media
• Proven problem-solving skills and ability to think outside of the box for creative solutions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is desirable
• Ability to assist and support other team members

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