Paid Social Manager (Gaming and Beauty)

As a Paid Social Manager, you’ll take senior ownership of paid social across large, performance-driven accounts, including complex, high-volume clients spanning a globally recognised gaming brand and a premium heritage beauty brand. Sitting within a newly merged activation function, the role offers genuine autonomy, early exposure to paid search, and the opportunity to help shape how paid social operates within a more integrated performance model.

You’ll be trusted to stabilise and grow inherited accounts quickly, act as a senior voice within your patch, and support junior team members and offshore delivery where needed – all while delivering against ambitious commercial and performance outcomes at the UK’s largest independent media agency.

The role involves owning the day-to-day delivery of best-in-class paid social campaigns, bringing strong full-funnel performance experience to every stage - from brief through activation to optimisation and analysis. Working closely with a Paid Social Account Director, PPC leadership and the wider activation team, you’ll independently develop smart, data-driven strategies that deliver against client objectives while pushing paid social maturity forward.

You’ll build confident client relationships, present clear POVs, and operate comfortably beyond channel silos - particularly as paid social and paid search continue to integrate. This is a role for someone who enjoys ownership, variety and responsibility, and who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery and account leadership.

Core responsibilities

• Act as the main point of contact for assigned clients, building strong, trusted relationships and responding effectively to both planned and ad-hoc needs.
• Independently manage day-to-day account delivery, drawing on wider team expertise where appropriate and mentoring junior team members.
• Present performance updates, insights and recommendations with confidence, demonstrating strong industry and platform knowledge.
• Support the development and delivery of paid social roadmaps, with a clear focus on performance and maturity.
• Identify opportunities to add value through specialist paid social expertise.
• Maintain a high level of attention to detail, ensuring accurate, error-free documentation and outputs.
• Develop and deliver effective media plans aligned to client objectives, budgets, audiences and platforms.
• Activate and optimise campaigns across platforms such as Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest and others, using advanced features, tools and partners to maximise performance and ROI.
• Monitor and optimise campaigns against agreed KPIs, producing accurate reporting to inform decision-making.
• Identify and leverage new opportunities, including platform updates, betas and testing opportunities.
• Design and run tests with clear hypotheses, robust measurement frameworks and documented learnings.
• Use agency reporting solutions to create clear, customised outputs aligned to client and agency standards.
• Demonstrate an understanding of paid social within the broader performance and digital strategy, selecting appropriate KPIs to drive business outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with media partners and stay close to industry trends and emerging opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with paid search, planning and specialist teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
• Support team delivery by managing workload effectively and delegating where appropriate, including working with offshore resource.
• Share knowledge on paid social best practice, emerging technologies and industry developments.
• Contribute to wider agency initiatives including performance excellence, process improvement, training and continuous learning.

A bit about you

We’d love to talk to you if you bring strong, hands-on paid social experience across major platforms, with a proven ability to manage performance-driven accounts and deliver results through thoughtful strategy and detail-driven execution. If you enjoy autonomy, responsibility and the freedom to test, learn and grow, we think you’d thrive at the7stars.

Benefits

• Uncounted holiday
• Summer profit-share and Christmas bonus (discretionary)
• Hybrid working and flexibility
• Personalised training plan & coaching
• Optional private medical insurance & cashback plan
• Life Assurance, Critical Illness and Income Protection
• Enhanced family policies
• “Work from anywhere” allowance
• Season ticket loans and expensed Railcard
• Company bar
• New Business Bonus eligibility in year one

the7stars 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.