Senior Account Executive, Social & Digital -Global Communications Agency in England

Are you a strategic media expert with a passion for driving results? We are seeking a talented individual to execute sophisticated paid media campaigns, develop content and winning strategies, and deliver measurable impact for our clients across multiple digital platforms.

Why FleishmanHillard? We have been named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year and Best Places to Work; a “Standout Agency” on Advertising Age’s A-List; NAFE’s “Top 50 Companies for Executive Women” for six years running; and among our firm’s award‑winning work we’ve taken home 5 Lions in the past two years at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. We are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable working environment for everyone.

The Team: Social and Digital at Fleishman isn’t just about content calendars and “amplification”. It’s integral to everything we do as part of our integrated approach to communications. Across all sectors, social and digital strategies, content and channels are fundamental to brand and business promotion, reputation building, and safeguarding. Our clients look to us for expertise on the opportunities and creative solutions to challenges across social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn, as well as paid promotion across search, programmatic and display, social, and beyond. We combine specialists across strategy, paid media, social, content, influencer marketing and design. Together, we bring ideas to life with smart, audience‑led thinking and bold creativity. Working closely with client teams across the business, we develop communications that are insight‑driven, strategically sound, and creatively led.

The Work: We work with high‑profile brands and organisations to develop and amplify content, promote earned stories, enhance visibility, and engage the right audiences at the right time. From executive‑profiling campaigns and brand launches to advocacy and stakeholder programmes, paid media is a critical part of how we deliver measurable impact for our clients. Whether it’s paid social, search, display or programmatic, our approach is always integrated, innovative, and grounded in real outcomes.

The Role: With a focus on paid media, you’ll work with leading brands to execute, optimise, and report on high‑impact paid media campaigns. You’ll collaborate with creative thinkers, strategic planners, and client partners to deliver exceptional results across search, social, and programmatic channels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Executing paid media plans for clients and teams in search and social channels, and occasionally programmatic.
• Contributing to paid media strategies and campaign tactics to achieve client goals.
• Collaborating with account teams, planners, creatives and clients to develop integrated marketing and communications strategies and tactics that include earned media, paid advertising, social, digital, influencer, brand partnerships and brand activation ideas.
• Creating paid social and search campaign work‑back schedules and managing project timelines and schedules.
• Contributing to client communication, including project updates, optimisation recommendations, performance reports and deliverable approvals.
• Collecting, analysing and interpreting audience, competitor and other research data to deliver insights and ideas to clients.
• Collecting, analysing and interpreting paid social and search performance metrics to demonstrate campaign impact and make recommendations for future campaigns.
• Developing campaign performance reports and summaries.
• Consistently meeting administrative requirements such as timesheets, expenses, and performance reviews.
• Fostering a culture of inclusivity.

About You:

• Proven experience executing and optimising paid search and social media campaigns (including experience with Meta and LinkedIn ad buying).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret performance data and derive actionable insights.
• Excellent project management and organisational abilities.
• Experience with marketing analytics tools and platforms (Google Ads, Meta Business Manager, or similar).
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across teams and with client stakeholders.
• Detail‑oriented mindset with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
• Familiarity with paid media strategy and integrated marketing campaigns.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
• Confident Microsoft Excel user with strong research and analytical skills.
• Experience with paid search advertising and Google Ad Search certification (this role actively includes search buying).
• Experience with digital and social media management and measurement platforms including at least some of the following: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Google Analytics.
• Experience in programmatic display or video is a bonus, but not a requirement, with platforms such as StackAdapt, The Trade Desk, Adobe Ad Cloud.

Eligibility: You must have the right to work in the UK and be able to work in our London Bankside office at least 3 days per week.

Application: If this sounds like you we’d love to hear from you. Please attach your CV and cover letter (highlighting your paid media experience), and examples of campaigns you’ve led that had real impact.

What We Offer You:

• A warm and friendly team with a fantastic portfolio of global and UK clients.
• A truly global network, the opportunity to be part of multi‑market campaigns, regularly working with colleagues across the globe.
• A strengths‑based learning and development framework with an in‑house coach and development opportunities for career‑defining work.
• We’ve fully embraced hybrid and flexible working. We have a great office and human contact remains an important element of our culture.
• Work‑life balance, we all work hard but having a life outside work matters to all of us, and we support each other to achieve it.
• Culture Club – from office activities to nutrition, in‑house massage and acupressure sessions, to yoga on the roof terrace, quizzes, boot camps, exhibits and summer and Christmas get‑togethers.
• Opportunities to join our Employee Resource Groups (global and local), the Shadow Board or DEI Steering committee.

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