About the Role:
The Paid Social Manager is responsible for the planning, execution, and optimisation of Paid Social campaigns across a global automotive client.
The role is focused on delivering best-in-class campaign execution, driving performance against KPIs, and ensuring operational excellence across multiple markets.
The candidate will play a key role in connecting activation, ensuring campaigns are locally relevant while aligned to global priorities and digital media guidelines
Key Responsibilities
Campaign Management & Execution
- Plan, implement, and optimise Paid Social campaigns across major platforms, including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
- Ensure campaigns are delivered in line with SLA, within budget, and aligned to agreed KPIs.
- Drive campaign efficiencies and continuous optimisation across multiple markets.
- Maintain high standards of campaign activation, QA, and reporting.
- Ensure best digital media guidance and practice is consistently applied across all activity.
Performance & Growth
- Monitor and analyse campaign performance, providing clear and actionable insights.
- Identify opportunities to improve ROAS, CTR, CPA, and overall campaign efficiency.
- Contribute to testing frameworks, innovation projects, and learning agendas across markets.
- Stay abreast of platform developments and proactively identify opportunities for clients.
Operational Excellence
- Ensure the smooth day-to-day running of accounts across multiple territories.
- Manage campaign workflows and ensure deadlines and deliverables are consistently met.
- Maintain accurate reporting, budget management, and financial tracking.
- Support process improvements that enhance efficiency and campaign quality.
Collaboration & Integration
- Build strong relationships across local PHD teams.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, training, and best practice across the Paid Social team.
- Foster a collaborative and positive team culture.
Qualifications & Skills
- Strong experience managing Paid Social campaigns in an agency or client-facing environment.
- Proven ability to plan, execute, and optimise campaigns across major social platforms, including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Pinterest.
- Experience working on global or multi-market campaigns.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into action.
- Excellent understanding of Paid Social best practices, platform developments, and emerging trends.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with campaign management tools such as Smartly or Innovid is advantageous but not necessary.
- A proactive mindset with a passion for digital media and social platforms.
About the Agency:
PHD is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity.
Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.
Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.
Over the many years that have followed, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership. And we continue to ensure that our capability and approach evolve in line with changes in media, data, technology, commerce, society, and legislation.
Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.
https://www.phdmedia.com/
Flexible Working
At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG
At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.
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Skills Required
- Strong experience managing Paid Social campaigns in an agency or client-facing environment
- Proven ability to plan, execute, and optimise campaigns across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, and LinkedIn
- Experience working on global or multi-market campaigns
- Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret data and translate insights into action
- Excellent understanding of Paid Social best practices, platform developments, and emerging trends
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with campaign management tools such as Smartly or Innovid
- Proactive mindset with passion for digital media and social platforms
Omnicom Media Group UK Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Omnicom Media Group UK and has not been reviewed or approved by Omnicom Media Group UK.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave allowances include 27 days’ annual leave plus a birthday day and options to trade holiday. Additional “summer Fridays/recharge days” help widen time‑off options.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid working with a typical three‑days‑in/two‑days‑remote pattern and defined core hours supports flexibility. Work‑from‑anywhere allowances and 2–3 WFH days are also referenced in the UK context.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical insurance, life assurance, and an Employee Assistance Programme are part of the core package. Mental wellbeing support, trained Mental Health First Aiders, and a subsidised gym further reinforce health coverage.
Omnicom Media Group UK Insights
What We Do
OMG UK delivers transformational experiences for consumers, clients and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, MG OMD, PHD and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences. We are enormously proud of our Agency and Network of the Year accolades, including most recently, PHD named Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year, MG OMD named Thinkbox TV Planning Agency of the Year, and OMG Unite named Media Agency of the Year at the Leadership and Diversity Awards. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, diverse voices and minority communities are valued, heard and well represented, and where everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and fairness.
