Paid Social Specialist

Paid Social Specialists (Junior, Mid, Senior)

Manchester, London hybrid

This position sits in our Creative & Media craft. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through innovative digital marketing solutions. We plan, create and execute a variety of world class campaigns, from culture lead, social first content to award-winning integrated creative campaigns that have been built from data lead strategies and insights.

Our clients include Just Eat Takeaway, Victoria's Secret, Tik Tok, The White Company, Meta, Pepsico, Easy Jet and many more.

Here at DEPT®, we are proud of the award winning, creative campaigns and content that we produce for a range of exciting and well known brands and we believe that our Media Team is pivotal in the success of those campaigns. Our Media Team is made up of both paid and organic media specialists and we are looking for a new Paid Social Specialists to join the team to service an exciting new client.

Using data & insights, the Media Planner will develop solid paid media strategies and plans across a range of biddable channels, including Tik Tok, Meta, Snapchat, X, You Tube, Reddit, Pinterest & more. The Media Planner will work closely with other departments, such as Creative, Tech and Production to ensure we continue to create award winning content!

You will:

• Plan, buy and optimise paid social media activity
• Respond to client (internal and external) briefs
• Report on activity on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Develop paid media strategies and create key tactical plans to deliver on them
• Deliver media plans to the highest possible standard
• Optimise existing paid social media deliverables
• Ensure delivery of work is to the highest possible standard
• Ensure constant innovation across all deliverables
• Contribute to our creative process by sharing your ideas and experience
• Manage budgets for paid media deliverables
• Present work internally and externally
• Complete work to deadlines

Essential

• Relevant experience within a paid media based role
• Strong understanding of digital paid media, particularly paid social media
• Advanced proficiency with Ads across a number of social media platforms including but not limited to;
  Tik Tok, Meta, Snapchat, and You Tube. Familiarity with Google Ads and Pinterest is advantageous.
• Experience with brand and performance campaigns
• Intermediate or higher proficiency in the use of Excel/Sheets and familiarity with Word/Docs and PowerPoint/Slides
• An inquisitive and numeric mindset
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills with a high attention to detail
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to react quickly within a fast-paced environment

• A flexible, hybrid working policy
• The choice of medical healthcare providers (Bupa or Medicash)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off each year
• Company pension scheme
• EAP scheme
• Ride to work scheme
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Buddy Program:
  You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT®.
• A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
• Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
• The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.

We are pioneers t does that mean? We are always looking forward, thinking of what we can create tomorrow that does not exist today. We were born digital and we are a new model of agency, with a deep skillset in tech and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-driven, talented people who never stop innovating.

Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care.…