Paid Social Manager

Summary

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

As a Paid Social Manager, you’ll own 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.

About the7stars

the7stars is unlike any other agency. The distinction started the day we launched in 2005 when we named ourselves after a pub, but more importantly when we made a promise that we were going to do things differently.

And this commitment has stuck with us. It guides how we work, how we think and how we treat one another and can be expressed in a single word.

Freedom.

Our Freedom philosophy lives across our entire business from people, product and planning. It means we plan & buy media how we want, develop careers how we want, take holiday when we need it, invent tools when we need them, give people a platform to speak up, question and express themselves freely – but more importantly it has allowed us to create an amazing place to work.

We have a unique working environment and open structure which encourages personal development through client contact, team work, training, exposure to all media and internal teams – and a “sky’s the limit” approach to your growth within the agency.

the7stars is c300 passionate media people that are able to focus purely on creating great work for our clients.

If thinking freely and with integrity is your bag, then the7stars is an agency you should meet.

the7stars has a bespoke and inspiring working culture. We operate a flat structure without job titles and encourage an entrepreneurial attitude where you get out what you put in.

We are looking for people who get excited by the solution, have ideas and are passionate about the ability of media to make a real difference to businesses

Core responsibilities:

Client Servicing & Engagement

• 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.

Campaign Leadership

• 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.

Strategy & Collaboration

• 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

A comprehensive package including:

• Uncounted holiday
• Summer profit-share and Christmas bonus (discretionary)

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.