Client & Partner Management

• Responsible for delivering on the over-arching paid social strategy across the account(s) and ensuring this ties in with the wider digital and comms strategy.
• Become thought leaders on Paid social for audible the 4 markets, DE, FR, IT, ES. Driving change and advanced.
• Acting as a key social point-of-contact for your client(s) ensuring their continuing confidence in the quality of the team and agency’s social output.
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of the media and technology developments that influence your client’s business.
• Able to identify opportunities to test and innovate in the paid social space, presenting these opportunities to stakeholders and securing client backing.
• Managing internal and external stakeholders to ensure multiple projects can be delivered simultaneously and to the required standard.
• Building and maintaining relationships with the key media partners including Meta, Twitter, Snap, TikTok, Pinterest and others.

People Management

• Ensuring the effective management of both the local team (de, fr, it, es) and Global Hub employees, ensuring workloads are sufficiently monitored & prioritised to ensure deadlines are met.
• Establish and continue to foster relationships with Wavemaker offices across the globe. US, EU, APAC.
• Working your Account Manager and the team leadership to help train and develop entry level team members. Leading by example to motivate and encourage all those with less experience on the team.
• Communicate clearly and in a timely manner with internal and external stakeholders as required across email, chat, video and in-person. Leading presentations where necessary.
• Attend and lead regular internal meetings and training sessions in order to actively contribute to a collaborative and friendly paid social community.
• Leading the recruitment process for your immediate team and working with the head of department to assist with wider team recruitment as needed. This will involve leading interviews, making staffing decisions and acting as an ambassador for the team to potential candidates.

Operational Excellence

• Identify opportunities to test and innovate in the paid social space. Presenting these opportunities to stakeholders and securing client backing. Developing these into initiatives that can be used to further evolve the standard & efficiency of paid social buying across the wider team.
• Developing tailored testing/learning agendas for clients that drive clear and actionable insight on each social platform.
• Working closely with planning team + other channel specialists to ensure paid social activity compliments and enhances the wider marketing mix.
• Collaborating on thought-leadership pieces and POVs for the agency and GMS social community.
• Responsible for the accurate and effective management of agency finance processes. Ensuring the immediate team fulfil the mandatory finance process in a timely and accurate manner to ensure prompt payment/invoicing and minimise finance queries.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in performance media with a good level of expertise across paid social
• Strong understanding of how paid social works within the performance and digital ecosystem.
• Working knowledge of best practices within social.
• Understand of mobile app download campaigns within social platforms.
• Experience in performance social campaigns.
• Experience setting Social brand and performance KPIs for clients.
• Working knowledge of key tracking solutions.
• Proven people management and leadership qualities.
• Ability to manage upwards as well as downwards.
• Possesses initiative and demonstrates resourcefulness.
• All academic backgrounds will be considered – qualifications in maths, data, media of interest.
• Professional digital media/advertising qualifications will be of an advantage.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in planning, buying and optimising across all channels is useful.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment to Be Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We also Lead Optimistically, firmly believing in and Championing Growth and Development for every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees to leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.

We Create an Open environment built on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. Please note that while our philosophy is the same across WPP, benefits may vary by office/country.

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