Job Title:
Paid Social Executive
Job Description:
iProspect is a global, award-winning marketing agency that drives digital performance for many of the world’s largest brands. We pride ourselves on the loud drumbeat of innovation that sounds through the company.
It drives the way we help solve clients’ problems, the way we build teams and product as well as the way through which we train and develop our people. We strive to create an environment that fosters collaboration, celebrates creativity, and encourages our employees to champion superior work and for us to develop superior working lives
Role Overview
The Paid Social Executive is a great opportunity for an individual with a passion for being at the cutting edge of social media and a desire to work at one of the World’s leading media agencies. Initially the expectation will be to support the Paid Social Manager with the management of client campaigns, but over time taking ownership of independently planning and delivering campaigns.
At its core, the role of the Paid Social Executive is to strategise, plan and implement bought media campaigns on social channels to achieve the aims of dentsu international's group clients. The role is also a client-facing one - both externally, to the client teams, and internally, to comms teams, ATL planners, other digital specialists and client servicing.
Key Responsibilities
Client – facing responsibility
- Be a point of contact for clients within the iProspect Paid Social team
- Attend regular catch ups with internal client teams in iProspect and Carat to ensure you are aware of all upcoming campaigns and report on campaign performance across the lines of business you are across.
- Attend and represent the team at regular external and internal client meetings, including status meetings, briefing sessions, campaign reviews, QBRs etc.
- Develop and foster an effective working relationship with our partners at Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and emerging social/content amplification platforms.
Team & Workload management
- Mentor Paid Social Junior Executives in the team and help develop their craft-specific and general client handling skills.
- Ensure the timely and accurate delivery of work within your team. This may require you to undertake the responsibilities of more junior members of the team during periods of high workload.
Client profitability and finance
- Be responsible for the timely and accurate billing and reconciliation of campaign spend / income by your team to ensure suppliers are paid on time, and clients are invoiced on time
Biddable Activation media campaign planning, creation management, optimisation, and analysis
- Take the initial campaign brief and be responsible for the creation of best in class, practical, accountable plans for delivering the business value our clients want from social platforms.
- Oversee the monitoring of daily delivery and perform ensure regular optimisation of all campaign elements (segments, creative, landing pages, etc) based on agreed campaign KPIs
Product Development & New Business
- Drive the adoption of the latest platform features through the effective selling of new products
- Create case studies and award entries based on campaign results as appropriate
Professional Skills
Passionate about Social Media and digital media and committed to building a career in performance marketing
- Strongly numerate and comfortable manipulating data sets, showing what results mean and how we can take action from them
- Highly literate with a good ability to articulate complex ideas (about technology, data, efficiency, performance etc) in an accessible way
- Excellent planning, analytical and organisational skills alongside diligence and attention to detail in optimisation and reporting
- A proactive and creative attitude with strong problem-solving skills.
- Highly ambitious individual with proven examples of success and target achievement in previous roles / university
Working with us
Joining dentsu international, you’ll join a team of 48,000 people. It’s an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.
Inclusion and Diversity
We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.
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.
How we’ll reward you
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs
A bit more about Dentsu
Dentsu is a modern marketing solutions company. Our mission is to help clients navigate, progress, and thrive in a world of change. Businesses rely on our integrated network of agencies and specialized practices to champion meaningful progress through creative, media, commerce, data, and technology. Part of Dentsu Group, our global network comprises 66,000 diverse people in 143 countries, who are dedicated to teaming for growth and good. Some of our award-winning agencies include Carat, dentsumcgarrybowen, dentsuX, iProspect, Isobar and Merkle.
We are champions for meaningful progress, and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry, and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all
Location:
London
Brand:
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent