Executive Director, Paid Social

<p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p> <p>You will lead a team of Paid Social specialists focussing on driving quality awareness and leads through account based marketing for a</p> <p>significant global B2B brand. You will have a depth of specialism and hands on planning & buying experience across Paid Social, with expertise in LinkedIn.</p> <p>This is a highly client-facing role, where you will use your depth and breadth of experience to effectively and efficiently solve client challenges. </p> <p>Your role will be to lead various workstreams across Paid Social, including innovation, measurement, annual planning, partner</p> <p>negotiations and management, and to lead those performance client relationships. You will also be responsible for line managing the</p> <p>channel managers; and coaching them through managing their teams. You will be accountable for the end to end delivery and</p> <p>performance of Paid Social, as such you will be adept at managing efficient SLAs, instilling and ensuring QA processes, and using your</p> <p>client and internal relationships to ensure excellency across Paid Social. You will report into the Managing Partner; and will be</p> <p>responsible for deploying and realizing their workstreams, with their support.</p> <p>You will be responsible for managing, developing and upskilling a regional team of Paid Social specialists and beyond the client, you will be a leader within the Performance Community, and will have the opportunity to support in new business pitches, team training, and to mentor and support more junior colleagues. </p> <p>This role will appeal to someone who is passionate about the future of our industry, and loves working with big, exciting cultural brands,</p> <p>and has knowledge across the breadth of digital channels to create data informed & strategic plans, alongside leading the team in</p> <p>activating and optimising those plans in the best possible way, across a range of objectives spanning brand and eCommerce.</p> <p>Specific areas of responsibilities involve:</p> <ul> <li>Key stakeholder management across the team</li> <li>Direct management of the Paid Social Director and support in management of their team of Paid Social specialists</li> <li>Connection and collaboration across the local countries</li> <li>Translating the key priorities and workstreams for the client into Paid Social workstreams and deliverables</li> <li>Collaborating with broader stakeholders to ensure a cohesive and connecting omnichannel strategy and deployment for the client</li> <li>Additionally, you will be a part of the OMD EMEA Performance Community leadership, helping define our key priorities as an agency, contributing t