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Senior Paid Social Strategist

🇬🇧 London, GB Hybrid Marketing & Growth Full time Senior Posted Apr 15, 2026
LocationLondon, GB
WorkplaceHybrid
EmploymentFull time
SenioritySenior
CategoryMarketing & Growth
PostedApril 15, 2026
Last verifiedMay 6, 2026

We’re a social and content agency led by talent and fuelled by technology. Since 2008, we’ve been building an integrated, digital-first offering that combines content excellence with channel best practice to drive meaningful performance for our clients. Born in London, we’ve grown into a global agency, partnering with ambitious brands across international markets and delivering work that connects with audiences wherever they are.

As a values-driven agency, our people are our power. We stay ahead of the game by hiring smart thinkers and giving them back what they put in - through rapid progression, industry-leading benefits, and a culture that has been recognised in Campaign’s Best Places to Work for over seven years running.

We are looking for a Senior Paid Social Strategist to play a pivotal role in our growing team – we’re looking for someone to bring paid social expertise and broader channel thinking, as well as oversee and input into innovative and high-performing campaign strategies across multiple platforms.  

The role goes beyond activation as you’ll shape campaign approaches, define KPIs, connect channels, deliver integrated work, bring modern advertising approaches and provide a high level of social consultancy and senior client support. 

The role sits within the Distribution team as part of the media and performance arm.  

Key Responsibilities

  • Create social approaches across teams that feel connected, not silo’d, that contain full funnel planning and ladder up to real business impact. 
  • Collaborate with key teams such as the Account Management teams through owned / organic social, and via Growth and New Business working on pitches and proposals. 
  • Within new business and growth - leading on paid, performance, measurement approaches with tailored responses. 
  • Reviewing current tech stack, tools and licenses to ensure we have the best methods to deliver on client objectives successfully.  
  • Driving commercial success for accounts, understanding targets and pushing growth within retainers. 
  • Own the strategy, structure and success of the Media and Performance department – implementing operational standards across all accounts.  
  • Drive performance across all accounts, inspiring teams, supporting with reporting insight and training sessions.  
  • Setting KPIs in conjunction with teams across paid and owned to ladder up to real business impact. 
  • Showcase fresh paid approaches and measurement tactics, across all clients, working with external teams understand context / challenges.  
  • Testing and innovation – A/B testing, alphas/betas, creative experimentation. 
  • Bring thought leadership and solutions for modern advertising techniques and landscape changes across social. 

 

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