Role: Senior Account Executive - Paid Media

Location: Remote, Flexible

Full time (Mon - Fri, 35 hours pw)

Hours must be compatible with UK working day

OUR MISSION

Pepper is an award-winning creator-first social media agency, with a human approach at its core

You will take a key role within our growing Paid Media team, delivering every element of paid social and digital media marketing campaigns, with a huge scope for creative and strategic input. The team which you will be a part of is a supportive and collaborative environment, designed to equip you with the confidence to deliver outstanding work.

You will be provided with strategic direction and vision to deliver work for clients with your own expertise and personality. You are expected to push your own learning and ability: we will work towards agreed goals and milestones to push your professional development forward.

The role is full time remote, however on occasion your attendance may be required at in-person client meetings and events. Depending on your location there also are opportunities to work collaboratively in person with other members of the team.

OUTCOMES

To be successful in this role will require a keen interest in influencer culture, social media and digital marketing, with an appetite to keep up to date in a fast-changing industry. This role is suited to someone with a problem-solving, can-do attitude, who is confident that they can accomplish any task they set their mind to with the right support in place.

Your key skills, objectives and responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to and supporting with leading creative and strategic ideas sessions
• Planning and implementing paid social campaigns across META, TikTok, Twitch, Snap, Pinterest, YouTube and X
• Building strategic audience profiles across paid digital channels
• Create copy for adverts across multiple different paid channels
• Ability to spot optimisations and trends throughout the campaign lifetime
• Preparation, completion, and maintenance of internal and client-facing Media Plans and Proposals on Google Slides.
• Preparation of client and supplier-facing documents
• Building proposal slides
• Hosting outreach sessions to influencers
• Superb data management skills, from entry to evaluation and analysis
• Booking and attending client meetings, building and maintaining relationships
• Excellent knowledge of paid social trends, building relationships, exploring emerging trends and verticals, that continues to grow
• Fluency in social platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Twitch, Facebook, Pinterest etc)
• Ability to work efficiently and adaptively
• Confident to contribute comfortably and independently to client pitches, presentations, and calls
• Confident to host post-campaign analysis and reporting sessions independently with clients
• Ability to identify gaps in our processes and contribute to our service offering development
• Ability to guide new members of the team and give support to your peers
• You will continuously evaluate performance, optimise your campaigns and keep clients up to date with results as necessary, taking a proactive approach.
• You will be able to compile, maintain, and analyse accurate, transparent, and insightful campaign reports.
• You will understand what ROI looks like for a client’s different objectives.
• You will meet demanding internal & client targets in a proactive, positive and can-do manner, formulating solutions.
• You will be expected to manage your work independently with a manager overseeing and lightly supporting where necessary.
• You will be a responsible and leading figure for executives at Junior and Intermediate level, providing them with peer support, sharing tools, skills, and knowledge.
• Able to build rapport and feel confident speaking about the subject in an informal setting - i.e. client meet up
• We encourage you to challenge the status quo of how Pepper runs campaigns.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• 1 to 2 years previous experience working in an agency environment.
• Previous Paid Media experience (social, PPC, etc)
• A solid understanding of how social platforms and their algorithms work.
• Excellent client-facing skills.

WHO ARE YOU?

• You’re ambitious, creative and analytical. You go above and beyond and take pride in your work.
• You have a proven track record of success.
• You have excellent communication skills - strong written and spoken English is essential.
• You have a strong attention to detail with the ability to check your work and learn from mistakes
• You have an ability to work under pressure and to prioritise conflicting demands. You’re organised.
• You have strong client handling experience, motivated by improving client happiness and have a natural ability to build rapport with people quickly.
• You have a genuine passion for learning & development - we want to see your ambition!

COMPETENCIES

Our business is successful because we maintain a human approach at the heart of what we do. We must ensure that all team members can demonstrate that they are:

• Proactive
• Problem Solving
• Supportive
• Take ownership
• Take pride in their work
• Salary: £30,000 per anum - depending on experience

BENEFITS

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and additional days for tenure accrual
• Sabbatical opportunities
• Contribution towards your remote working setup
• Work From Anywhere incentive
• Active Lunch: work flexibly and take a longer lunch to stay active
• Early finish Fridays all year round
• Seasonal all-team in-person socials
• Training credits
• Vision support
• OTE
• Pet-friendly policies

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