Paid Social Manager (Activation & Performance) in Bath

Salary: £35,000–£39,000 DOE

Location: Bristol / Hybrid

Contract: Full-time

About The Content Emporium

The Content Emporium is a specialist social media agency helping brands connect with their audiences through creative, effective social content. As our client portfolio continues to grow, we're looking for a Paid Social Manager (Activation & Performance) to help us build and develop our paid social capability alongside our established organic social offering.

This is a hands-on role for someone who understands both content and performance. You'll play a key role in helping our clients get more value from their social content through smart, agile paid social activation, while also supporting broader paid social campaigns and helping shape the future of our paid offering.

The Role

This role is primarily focused on managing the paid amplification of organic social content across Meta and TikTok. Working closely with our organic social, content and client services teams, you'll identify opportunities to amplify content through paid social, recommend budgets and audiences, launch campaigns, monitor performance and optimise activity.

Alongside amplified content activity, you'll also manage paid social campaigns across Meta and TikTok for agency clients, helping to deliver objectives including awareness, engagement, event promotion and footfall. You'll take ownership of The Content Emporium's own paid social activity, helping us grow our profile, generate leads and support business development through channels including LinkedIn, Meta and other relevant platforms.

A key part of the role will involve managing paid social activity for a major shopping centre portfolio, ensuring amplified content is timely, locally relevant and aligned with wider content strategies. This is a role for someone who enjoys being in platform, analysing performance, spotting opportunities and turning strong organic content into even stronger results. While you'll have ownership of paid social delivery and performance, this is a hands-on implementation role rather than a people-management position.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage amplification strategies for organic social content across Meta and TikTok.
• Identify high-performing and strategically important content suitable for amplification.
• Recommend budgets, audiences, objectives and timings for amplified activity.
• Launch, monitor and optimise amplified content campaigns.
• Ensure paid amplification is aligned with content calendars and wider campaign objectives.
• Manage paid activation across multiple locations, campaigns and priorities.
• React quickly to emerging opportunities, events and content performance trends.

Paid Social Campaign Management

• Plan, build and manage paid social campaigns across Meta and TikTok.
• Develop audience targeting strategies and campaign structures.
• Manage budgets and campaign performance across multiple client accounts.
• Test creative, audiences and campaign approaches to improve results.
• Ensure campaigns are delivered efficiently and in line with platform best practice.
• Support wider paid social planning and recommendations for clients where required.

The Content Emporium Marketing

• Own and manage The Content Emporium's paid social activity.
• Develop and deliver paid campaigns that support brand awareness, lead generation and business growth.
• Manage LinkedIn advertising for The Content Emporium's marketing activity.
• Work with the leadership and marketing teams to identify opportunities to support agency growth through paid social.
• Measure and report on campaign performance and lead generation activity.

Reporting & Insight

• Track and analyse performance across amplified content and paid campaigns.
• Produce meaningful reports and recommendations for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Translate campaign data into practical actions and content recommendations.
• Share insights with content and social teams to help improve future performance.
• Help clients and colleagues understand what content is working, why it's working and how performance can be improved.

Collaboration & Development

• Work closely with social media managers, content creators and account managers.
• Support client meetings and performance discussions where required.
• Act as the agency's paid social specialist, providing guidance and recommendations to colleagues and clients.
• Help shape the agency's paid social offering as it continues to grow.
• Stay up to date with platform developments, industry trends and emerging opportunities.
• Contribute to internal processes, best practice and innovation.

About You

You'll be confident in platform, comfortable with data and excited by the relationship between organic content and paid performance. You don't need to be a pure strategist, but you should be able to think strategically about what content to amplify, why, when and to whom. You'll enjoy being hands-on with campaign delivery while taking ownership of performance and results.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 2–5 years' experience managing paid social activity.
• Strong experience using Meta Ads Manager.
• Experience running TikTok paid social campaigns.
• Experience amplifying organic social content and managing paid social campaigns.
• Good understanding of audience targeting, campaign objectives, optimisation and performance measurement.
• Experience managing budgets across multiple campaigns and accounts.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills and confidence explaining recommendations and results.

Desirable

• Experience managing LinkedIn advertising.
• Agency experience.
• Experience working with retail, destination, leisure or hospitality brands.
• Experience supporting footfall, events or local awareness campaigns.
• Experience delivering lead generation campaigns.
• Familiarity with GA4 and wider performance reporting tools.

What You'll Get

• Salary of £35,000–£39,000 DOE.
• Hybrid working.
• Opportunity to help shape and grow a new service area within the agency.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• A collaborative and supportive team environment.
• The chance to work with leading retail, leisure and destination brands.
• Genuine ownership and autonomy within a growing agency.

Why Join Us?

You'll play a key role in developing our paid social capability, working closely with talented content and social specialists while having genuine influence over how the service evolves. If you're looking for a role where you can take ownership, stay hands-on and make a visible impact, we'd love to hear from you.

The Application Process

Please submit a CV and cover letter to with the subject line: 'Paid Social Manager application'. We do not accept any Easy Apply applications, so all applications must be submitted via email.

Deadline: Tuesday 14th June 2026 (11.59pm)

First online interviews: Mid to late July 2026 – we can arrange a mutually convenient time

In-person interviews: late July 2026 – we can arrange a mutually convenient time

Job start date: Mid to late-August 2026

Our Commitment

We are actively trying to create an inclusive and diverse environment. All applicants will be considered for employment based on suitability for the role alone and without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, neurodiversity or disability status. Please let us know if there's anything specific we can do to make your application process easier for you.