Paid Social Manager

time left to apply End Date: August 31, 2025 (24 days left to apply)

job requisition id JR0086703

Agency :

Havas Media

Agency :

Havas Media

Job Description :

PAID SOCIAL MANAGER

BASED IN MANCHESTER

Havas Media Network

At Havas Media, we are passionate about helping our clients create Meaningful Brands by reimagining valuable experiences. Our smart thinking around enhancing consumer experiences means we deliver more measurable, meaningful moments between brands and people. We call this Mx (Meaningful Media Experiences); thinking about how we connect consumers to the right content in the right context.

Based in Manchester, with Headquarters in London’s King’s Cross – one of 24 agencies which make up the Havas Village. As others attempt – and struggle – to integrate and simplify their offer, we continue to pioneer the UK’s only truly integrated model within our King’s Cross Village. We are the only UK Media Agency to share a single building with every other specialist business in our network, all under a single P&L.We maximise collaboration and offer our clients a powerful combination of creative, content and media excellence, scale, agility and innovation. This means we can field our very best people and change our shape according to the needs of each client and brief we work with.

Our commitment to making a meaningful difference to our people.

At Havas, our mission is to make a meaningful difference to the brands, the businesses and the lives of the people we work with. This guiding purpose is central to everything we do at Havas as we strive to create a great place to work through an environment and culture that makes a meaningful difference to our people.

At Havas Media we strive to be “meaningfully daring”.

This is our guiding philosophy – it’s about taking more informed risks in the pursuit of more meaningful outcomes for our clients, boldly pursuing ingenuity at all times, and always measuring the impact of everything we do.

How we behave

– We positively disrupt

– We’re relentlessly curious

– We make sh*t happen

– We’re ourselves, we’re a team

This is our guiding philosophy – it’s about taking more informed risks in the pursuit of more meaningful outcomes for our clients, boldly pursuing ingenuity at all times, and always measuring the impact of everything we do.

About Paid Social

Our paid social media team consists of over 45 experts – a team of executives, managers, directors and business directors – led by a head of paid social.

We’re a highly motivated, energetic team with a passion for all things social. We like great ideas combined with smart planning and a relentless commitment to results. We’re constantly innovating for our clients, working with all the key platforms in the latest formats to reach audiences in interesting ways.

The Role

This is an exciting position within Paid Social for an Account Manager, working on a diverse range of clients.

You’ll be expected to manage key pieces of business, providing a superior service to our clients and delivering innovative communications planning solutions. You will apply your knowledge of paid social communications platforms to identify the most appropriate mediums and solutions to overcome the challenges clients are facing. Furthermore, you will be responsible in driving performance through an unrivalled understanding of social channels and how consumers use them.

Key Responsibilities

• Client account management and ability to communicate with and manage multiple stakeholders, providing first class service to our clients as well as delivering quality and innovative solutions.
• Support the Social Director and Business Director with the day-to-day running of client accounts as well as addressing strategic business challenges.
• Campaign/ project management and the ability to take ownership and delivery of client projects from brief to campaign report.
• Own the finance process and month end reconciliations process.
• Effective time management for all responsibilities from both internal and external stakeholders
• Knowledge of all tools available to support brand and performance
• Understanding campaign optimisation across brand and performance
• Understands the options and applications to improve performance. Adopt an outside the box thinking with an agile, proactive approach.
• Manage teams to ensure delivery to deadline and budget. Management of campaign pacing in delivering budget to forecast.
• Ensure that results are reported with accuracy and that actionable insights are shared for continuous campaign improvement.
• Confident and competent in presenting to large and small groups, reporting back on campaigns
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key partners (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) to keep abreast of platform developments
• Ensure you are up to date with social trends

Team & People Management

• Leads by example, maintains a positive attitude, embracing opportunities, resolving issues collaboratively and swiftly, and making sure that the Social Directors are kept informed of any issues/concerns.
• Encourages independent working and demonstrates effective delegation skills whilst supporting and providing continuous coaching to junior team members.
• Takes ownership of personal and team skills development with full commitment and attendance to all training and development sessions.
• Identify any developmental training needs and communicate them accordingly. Supporting development of AEs and continuous knowledge sharing
• Act as an ambassador for the business, inspiring others and demonstrating our agency values.
• Monitor own workload in addition to any direct reports, ensuring a high-quality output collectively

Who we’re looking for

• Someone with a passion for social media – using it, continuing to learn about it, innovating on it
• Proven knowledge of and expertise in creating social media plans, paid activation, optimisation and reporting
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience of client management and clear communication skills with a strong ability to present ideas with conviction and gravitas
• Experience with line management and assisting in individual development plans
• Self-starter with proactive, can-do attitude
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Solutions focused
• Approachable

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Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.

Introduce Yourself

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Founded in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups, with more than 23,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model covering all communications activities. The teams of the three business units, Creative, Media and Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer clients tailor-made, meaningful, innovative and entertainment-oriented solutions that support them in their positive transformation.

Life at Havas

We take great pride in our Havas family. They bring many unique personalities, perspectives and passions to their work. Collaboration is at the core of how we operate, and Havas Villages are the homes we work in. We encourage our people to take advantage of our many opportunities to learn and grow. Through local agency training sessions, our unique global and development programs, we offer our people endless opportunities to explore.

Havas Media Network

We create the best media experience, capitalizing on the most meaningful media to build more meaningful brands. We know how to connect a client with their target audience – in the context of where they are, through the content they pay attention to. We deliver this expertise through the Mx System, our global operating methodology and strategic planning process, that creates value for our clients by turning consumer intelligence into clear growth targets, aligning stakeholders and KPIs, and measuring the impact of media experiences.

Havas Creative Network

At Havas, we believe creativity isn’t just a description of our business, it is part of our agencies’ DNA. We bring together some of the industry’s most creative and accomplished agencies. By combining creative expertise with the strategic and innovative power of our Villages, we can build seamless teams around the individual needs of each of our clients.

Havas Health

Driven by human purpose and focused on the betterment of humanity through health, Havas Health & You leverages a global collection of experts and individuals to help people everywhere live healthier lives. With a spirit rooted in innovation, creativity, and education, we are dedicated to delivering consistent excellence and groundbreaking work.

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