Senior Paid Social Manager

London/Manchester Based As Senior Paid Social Manager at Rise at Seven, you'll be the driving force behind our paid performance across platforms, turning insight, creativity, and precision targeting into campaigns that deliver real business impact. You'll lead paid social strategy and execution, ensuring every penny spent ladders up to brand and commercial goals. Reporting into the Social & Campaign Director, you'll translate brand and performance objectives into sharp, data-driven media strategies, overseeing planning, buying, optimisation, and reporting across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms - paid search experience is not a requirement but preferential. You'll own client relationships on paid campaigns, ensuring we hit KPIs with consistency while pushing creative and media innovation. Internally, you'll collaborate with strategists and craft teams, primarily the social team to bring fully integrated campaigns to life, while building and developing the paid social function with our Social & Campaigns Director. This is a hands-on role for someone who's as comfortable in Ads Manager as they are presenting results to clients. Key Objectives Lead the paid social strategy and execution, ensuring campaigns meet or exceed agreed KPIs (ROAS, CPA, CTR, reach). Manage campaign planning, media buying, and optimisation across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other paid platforms including paid search. Act as the primary paid social contact for clients, ensuring delivery aligns with business goals and budgets. Deliver consistent, insight-driven reporting with clear recommendations and optimisations. Build the paid social function at Rise At Seven with the Social & Campaign Director. Collaborate across creative, strategy, influencer, and PR to deliver integrated campaigns. Ensure paid social campaigns drive measurable performance, while maintaining Rise's standards for creativity and cultural relevance. Day-To-Day Responsibilities Paid Social Leadership Own media planning and buying across multiple paid social channels. Lead optimisations, A/B testing, and budget allocation to maximise ROI. Review campaign builds, creative, and targeting to ensure quality and performance. Client Partnership Act as the day-to-day lead on paid social for client accounts. Present media strategies, campaign plans, and performance reports with clarity and confidence. Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, ensuring client NPS scores of 8+. Commercial Delivery Deliver campaigns within agreed scopes, timelines, and budgets. Flag risks, performance issues, or upsell opportunities early and effectively. Contribute to growth opportunities by identifying where paid social can scale impact. You will be accountable for meeting Rise At Seven's paid social commercial targets Creative & Strategic Collaboration Partner with brand strategists to ensure campaigns are rooted in audience insight. Work closely with creatives to develop thumb-stopping paid-first assets. Feed platform insights and learnings back into broader campaign planning. Measurement & Reporting Track campaign performance against platform and client KPIs. Produce regular reports with actionable insights - building and shaping how we report on paid social with the support of our internal reporting and data team. Lead at least one major optimisation pivot per quarter to drive improved performance. Team Development Provide coaching and support to the wider social team and paid social team as it grows Give feedback on campaign builds, reporting, and execution. Help junior team members grow in confidence and technical skill. About You You're a paid social expert who knows how to balance creativity with performance. You live inside Ads Manager, but you're equally excited about how platform trends and creativity can supercharge results. You're hands-on, detail-driven, and commercially sharp, able to manage campaigns, people, and clients with confidence. 3–5+ years' experience in paid social, ideally agency-side. Proven track record delivering performance campaigns across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Strong understanding of audience targeting, attribution, and optimisation. Confident communicator with experience presenting strategies and reports to clients. Experience managing budgets from £50k–£500k+ monthly spend. Comfortable mentoring juniors and working in fast-paced, integrated campaign teams. Up to £40k based on experience