Paid Social Executive

We are growing our team of experts and are looking for a talented Paid Social Executive to work across LEGO!

Advertising spends through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter rise year-on-year, meaning Paid Social is one of the fastest growing areas of our agency. Reporting to the Paid Social Director and Paid Social Managers, the Paid Social Executive will support the team in delivering high-performance advertising campaigns for our wide range of clients. They should be able to demonstrate a passion for social media, emerging technologies and the digital media space.

The right candidate will have excellent numeracy, written, and oral communication skills and the ability to demonstrate keen attention to detail. General enthusiasm and a can do attitude is a must.

The Paid Social Executive will be responsible for activities including: data gathering for reporting, creating and delivering paid social media campaigns, competitor and market trend analysis, and more.

• Ensure work is completed to a high standard and within deadlines
• Adhere to a professional level of conduct at all times
• Attend internal meetings and regularly demonstrate self-learning
• Produce detailed and accurate client reports and competitor analysis
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of clients’ accounts to identify trends or issues in order to raise them with the wider team
• Be responsible for time keeping and ensuring in-house budgeting and time management software is updated daily
• Monitor clients’ campaigns and ensure performance tracking documents are updated regularly
• Optimise and improve clients’ advertising campaigns using the agency’s market-leading technologies and platform best practice guidelines
• Produce client-facing campaign reports for advertising campaigns
• Demonstrate the ability to self-manage and be efficient at completing a variety of tasks

• Ensure policy and procedure are followed at each stage of the project
• Adhere to quality assurance policies
• Ensure all documentation is sent to the Paid Social Management for review
• Communicate regularly with the Paid Social Management
• Ensure internal time keeping and budget tracking software is updated regularly

Requirements

• Strong listening skills and the ability to be open to new ideas and research from team members, co-workers, industry sources and client
• Ability to analyse data and identify trends, and clearly present data and insights
• Excellent attention to detail
• An enthusiasm for learning
• Degree qualified desirable
• An existing online web presence via either social media or website projects. Evidence of thought leadership such as blog posts is desirable
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Excel and its reporting functions (including basic formulas and pivot tables) desirable
• Excellent familiarity with all the major social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, as well as mobile applications such as Snapchat and Instagram
• Excellent numeracy, written and oral communications skills

What you can expect from us

We guarantee that your career with us will be varied and exciting. Every day in this fast paced environment presents a different challenge and if you work smart and are the best at what you do, your time here will produce endless possibilities for your future.

You will get our support in developing your skills at every step of your career journey with us. Your manager will help you create a tailored career path and through our in-house experts, and online performance management and learning and development tool, you will have access to a wide range of internal and external courses. In addition to this there are always plenty of internal sessions on the latest developments in the industry, e-learning courses, bite-size learning sessions and on the job training and development.

We aim to provide all of our people with a supportive and fun work environment where you can develop your full potential and benefit from the broad range of opportunities within the agency both in the UK and globally. When you join us, we want to make sure you feel valued – and that you are rewarded for your fantastic work. So we also offer a range of benefits: