Digital Executive – Paid Social

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. This is a unique opportunity to join an SVOD service at a hugely exciting time and play an integral role in the international expansion of a brand that has experienced rapid growth in a short period of time, within an environment that is hard working, fast paced and truly collaborative.

This role is responsible for hands-on campaign creation, management, optimisation, and reporting across a suite of paid social channels to fit into the wider business strategy of customer acquisition & retention as well as brand awareness. The Paid Social Media Executive will join an in-house media buying team in a role that requires a professional who is comfortable with data and insights to deliver efficiently on KPIs and pave the way to ongoing test & learn opportunities. Working closely with the Paid Social Media Planner and Senior Digital Manager, the role will feed into and from all paid digital initiatives inclusive of paid search, programmatic, affiliates and partnerships, seeking a true 360 approach to best utilise a given marketing budget.

The successful candidate will be passionate about working within a heavily data-driven and performance-oriented business with ambitious CPA and revenue-generating targets. Technical and analytical, balanced with a creative mindset and a working style focused on continuously improving and executing best-in-class paid social campaigns.

• Campaign building, maintenance and optimisation across all paid social channels leaning on team’s planner and manager.
• Budget tracking and pacing within monthly and campaign-specific caps at the platform and overall tactic level.
• Follow the automation of account management tools and processes.
• Ensuring account hygiene, tracking and feeding into analytical tools is always followed – narrow attention to naming conventions and reporting templates.
• Work on proactive recommendations and opportunities to gain further insights or profit from last-minute prospects.
• Briefing any creative and copy needs internally in accordance to wider planning needs and following platform’s best practices.
• Responsible for finance accuracy, raising POs for the team’s activity, tracking spend and budgets, ensuring smooth processing invoices from finance.
• Tracking and presenting competitor activity for insights and opportunities leveraging external contracted tools.

• SVOD/OTT experience.
• Enjoyment of reality TV.
• Understanding of marketing to millennial consumers.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.