Paid Media Manager, Planning and Activation

Paid Media Manager, Planning and Activation

Social Unit · Queen's Park, London · Hybrid, three days in the office · Full time

About us

Social Unit is a media and commercial partnerships agency. We help premium publishers and retailers turn their audiences into revenue. We work with Harrods, The Economist, The Observer and Country & Town House.

We're an agile team that works as a unit. We move quickly and we care about getting the detail right. Clients stay with us because campaigns go live on time, they're set up properly, and the numbers we promise are the numbers we deliver.

Why we're hiring

We're taking on new clients. We need someone who can run accounts on their own from day one, and who wants to grow into building the plans, not just running them.

The role

You'll own your accounts from brief to wrap. You'll be the person who checks a campaign before it goes live, the person the client speaks to, and over time the person who builds and presents the plan.

You'll work most closely with our Strategy and Performance Lead and our Head of Client Delivery. There are no layers here. Good ideas get used, whoever they come from.

What you'll do

Planning

• Build media plans and packages across our publisher portfolio, with support at first, then owning them
• Turn a client brief into a costed plan with numbers you're prepared to stand behind
• Present plans to clients yourself

Clients

• Be the day-to-day contact on your accounts
• Build performance decks and present them, not just contribute to them
• Work with publisher commercial teams who sell our campaigns to their own advertisers

Activation and quality

• Set up, manage and optimise campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Google Ads
• Check every setup before it goes live, on your accounts and on our Performance Executive's
• Watch delivery closely and act quickly when something needs to change
• Report clearly, and spot what isn't working before the client does

Your first 90 days

• 30 days: running live campaigns on your accounts, using our QA process
• 60 days: owning client comms on your accounts, with your first plan built alongside the team
• 90 days: able to cover any account in the business at short notice

What you'll bring

• Strong hands-on experience across paid social and Google Ads: setup, QA, optimisation and reporting
• You keep up with what's changing on the platforms, and test new formats before anyone asks
• You've contributed to media plans and now want to build and present them yourself
• You judge performance by what it did for the client, and you want to know why it worked
• You communicate clearly and stay organised across several campaigns at once
• You spot opportunities, and you notice when something isn't quite right

This probably isn't for you if

• You expect someone else to catch your mistakes
• You enjoy running campaigns but would rather not speak to clients

What we offer

• A team where your work is seen, in a business growing fast enough for the role to grow with it
• Discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension
• Hybrid working: three days a week in our own office in Queen's Park, two from home

How to apply

Send your CV to [email protected].

Put Paid Media Manager in the subject line.

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