Summary of the Paid Social Senior Executive job at the7stars and Bountiful Cow

Role:  Paid Social Senior Executive

Team:  Digital

ABOUT US

We are a fast-growing team of 34 based in Covent Garden, London, managing £50 million in billings from clients such as Bet Victor Group, The Telegraph, Clearpay, People’s Pension, NFL, and Tequila Rose.

We are an independent challenger business offering clients media, creative, and strategic services to fuel their business growth with Relative Advantage™.

Relative Advantage™ is our agency proposition and how we do things differently. It’s about daring to defy the conventional norms of growth within our clients’ categories and finding the clear space to stand out by outsmarting, rather than simply outspending, the competition. It’s about punching well above our weight and finding opportunity in unconventional places.

Our transparency enables us to do this. We are fully transparent, making money only from our clients, which means freedom for our teams to plan and buy in the interest of our clients while remaining highly competitive in the market.

We provide our clients with all the benefits of a smaller agency combined with those of a larger agency, thanks to our ownership by the7stars group. As part of the7stars group, we have access to shared services, providing our clients with specialist expertise beyond the size of our agency, including Partnerships, Production, Trading, Ad-tech, Data Analysis, and an IPA effectiveness-accredited team.

OUR VALUES: 

No Sacred Cows – Challenge received wisdom. Re-evaluate everything, constantly. Nothing is off the table.

Don’t Follow The Herd – We're here to do things differently to the way everyone else does it. Stand out to succeed or risk the danger of being indifferent.

No Bullshit – Always tell the truth, even if it’s inconvenient. Don’t shy away from complexity (but don’t overcomplicate).

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a passionate Paid Social Senior Executive who will support the planning, activation and delivery of best-in-class paid social campaigns across a range of clients.

You will bring solid hands-on paid social experience, strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to campaign management, helping to deliver work from brief through to analysis.

You will support the Paid Social Account Managers across day-to-day client work, contribute to recommendations, and take ownership of assigned campaign tasks, reporting and optimisation. You will have your own clients you will lead on with the support of an Account Manager. You will be client-facing, meet media owners and partners, attend external and internal training sessions, and continue progressing within a supportive team.

The roll provides the opportunity to work a breadth of different brands, including People’s Pension, Tequila Rose, Hilltop, Collective Diary and Quilter.

Your key responsibilities are:

Client Servicing

• Support the day-to-day management of assigned Paid Social clients and campaigns. 

• Build strong working relationships with client contacts through clear communication, timely updates and dependable delivery. 

• Prepare campaign updates, performance commentary and analysis for client meetings, with guidance from the Paid Social Account Managers

• Contribute ideas and observations that help identify opportunities to improve performance or add value to clients. 

• Confidently present analysis and insights in client meetings.

• Support in keeping clients up to date on relevant industry and platform developments. 

Strategy & Collaboration

• Support the development of Paid Social campaigns across brand and performance. 
• Collaborate with the planning team and wider activation team to help deliver integrated campaigns. 
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies and paid social best practice, sharing useful learnings with the team where relevant. 
• Input into client presentations by contributing platform insight, campaign learnings, performance analysis and optimisation recommendations. 
• Take part in agency initiatives such as knowledge sharing sessions, training and wider team development. 

Delivery

• With the support of a Paid Social Manager. Plan, build, activate and optimise paid social campaigns to meet the requirements of the client brief.
• Check the ad accounts you work across daily to ensure campaigns are pacing against forecasted spend and estimated delivery across agreed KPIs.
• Monitor performance and proactively flag issues, risks or opportunities to the Paid Social Account Manager with clear recommendations.
• Produce accurate reporting, post-campaign analysis and actionable learnings for internal and client review.
• Maintain strong quality control across campaign setup, creative trafficking, naming conventions, budgets, targeting, tracking and reporting.
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail and problem solving, while asking for support where needed.

Industry & Agency Engagement

• Maintain regular contact with relevant media owners and platform partners, in collaboration with the wider team. 
• Keep up to date with media trends and client sector developments.
• Bring curiosity, fresh thinking and a willingness to challenge best practice.

ABOUT YOU

Skills & Experience

• Previous paid social experience, preferably within a media agency environment. 
• Experience planning, activating, optimising and analysing paid social campaigns across the funnel. 
• Hands-on experience with Meta and TikTok is essential. Experience with Reddit, Snap, YouTube and/or a willingness to expand your digital channel experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical ability, with evidence of using performance data to develop recommendations and improve campaign delivery. 
• Strong attention to detail and confidence working across campaign setup, QA, reporting and optimisation. 
• Proven ability to work independently on assigned tasks while collaborating effectively with the wider team. 
• Self-motivated, proactive and organised, with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion. 
• A track record of pushing boundaries and challenging best practices.
• A passion for paid social, innovation and delivering brilliant implementational planning and buying. 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WORK HERE? 

You are here to do the best work of your career by doing things differently, to win awards, and to grow an agency business.

Be part of an inclusive culture that respects work/life balance and brings fun back to the workplace.

Agency benefits

• 27 days holiday (2 used at Christmas, plus 1 additional day each year you work here, up to 30 days).
• Flexible & hybrid working (3 days per week in the office)
• Up to 5 Learning Days each year to support professional growth & development
• Work from anywhere for up to 2 weeks of the year
• Personal finance adviser
• Discretionary summer profit share bonus and Christmas bonus
• Private Medical Insurance (Vitality)& cash back plan (Medicash)
• Choice of 5 gyms
• Season ticket Loan
• Cycle to work scheme & Tech scheme
• Life Assurance, critical Illness cover & income protection
• Enhanced family friendly policies, including Shared Parental & Adoption Leave
• Royal London pension (8% employer contributions up to £35k, 5% thereafter)
• Employee assistance programme & MHFA trained colleagues

Bountiful Cow is committed to creating a diverse environment, where employees feel empowered to share different ideas, perspectives and experiences in a collaborative and creative work environment. Equality and inclusion are at the heart of our culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.