Paid Social Manager

The purpose of this role is to lead and manage the implementation and execution of Paid Social campaigns and strategies and the day-to-day communication with clients to help achieve their goals.

Job Title:
Paid Social Manager

**Job Description**:
Merkle B2B (owned by Dentsu) is recruiting for a Paid Social Manager looking to propel their career by joining an awesome team of switched-on media professionals, working on Tier 1 business brands with interesting challenges and sophisticated marketers across some of our more exciting APAC accounts. They will be reporting to one of our Social Director.

To qualify for this role, you should
- HAVE a bachelors level degree or relevant tertiary qualification.
- HAVE at least 3-4 years hands on experience with following media technology tools: Facebook Business Manager, LinkedIn Business Manager, Google Campaign Manager
- Strong background of digital media ad units including digital display, video, mobile and social.
- BE detail orientated. You’ll be dealing with big dollars and intricate campaign data, where accuracy is paramount.

To excel in this role, you should
- BE naturally curious. Delivering great media work requires divergent thinking, influenced by a wide variety of sources.
- BE a problem solver. You’ll encounter numerous challenges in the role that will require an entrepreneurial approach. Easy answers to complicated briefs won’t often present themselves. Resources and time may be limited.
- HAVE a strong point of view. You’ll be employed for your media expertise and informed opinion
- LEAD, motivate and mentor your team, driving development growth within it.

Day to day
- Manage Tier 1 clients’ social strategy & execution alongside performance team
- Line management of a small team. Ensure that your team adheres to agency best practice and plays a significant part in developing that best practice.
- Drive agency strategy around social buying through technology platforms
- Maintain relationships with social vendors
- Manage costs incurred and revenue generated from buying platforms
- Oversee implementation of social media campaigns. Analyse, review, and report on effectiveness of campaigns in an effort to continually improve results
- Produce and present engaging campaign analysis for clients, demonstrating the effectiveness of planning, testing and media optimisation and management
- Provide insight and guidance to members of the Integrated Media team
- Maintain and stay current about industry news and research
- Presenting internally on client overviews, industry developments, media channel updates. Presenting externally, leading client WIPs, taking part in post-campaign presentations, and strategy recommendations.

**Benefits**:

- Real flexibility to work when and where we feel the most productive with our ‘Be the Best You’ policy. We love coming into the office and meeting face to face with other team members. We typically do this at least twice a week.
- 5 weeks annual leave after 2 years of service and 3 whole company mental health awareness days off per year
- Merkle B2B offer a 9 day fortnight - a paid day off every 2 weeks on a day that suits you and the team
- Career Development and Learning & Development opportunities, including access to our global online dentsu University
- Save money with great discounts on health insurance, gym membership, buying a car and travel.

About Merkle B2B:
With offices in Sydney, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, London, Munich, Bangalore, Beijing, and Singapore, Merkle B2B is the world’s largest and most respected communications agency focused on B2B Performance Marketing & Paid Media. Merkle B2B is a full service B2B offering with deep expertise and specialism and specialists across; Technology & Data, Media, Creative and Strategy, B2B Research & Insights and Marketing Automation

Part of the larger Dentsu Group, Merkle B2B delivers excellence to global and regional clients on media strategy, planning, activation and performance.

What We’re Looking For:

- Inspirational and passionate
- Has a multidisciplinary skillset
- Is curious, iterative, and collaborative
- Balances factual information with intuition and creativity
- Cares about winning as one team
- Is looking to do things that haven’t been done before
- Can tell stories with data
- Builds strong internal and external relationships

**Location**:
Sydney

Brand:
Merkle

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent