Junior Paid Social Media Buyer (Hybrid Working London)

London, UK (Hybrid)

£32K/yr – £40K/yrIntern/New Grad2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own hands-on paid social campaign setup, day-to-day management, and reporting across Meta and TikTok, with a clear path to growing budget ownership and optimisation as you develop.

  • Lead end-to-end campaign setup, monitoring, and optimisation across Meta and TikTok
  • Analyze data, build clear reports, and surface opportunities to seniors
  • Support creative briefs and planning sessions as you grow

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • you'll run campaign setup, day-to-day management, and reporting across Meta and TikTok, with senior support and a clear path to growing into budget ownership and optimisation as you develop.
  • Here's an approximate breakdown of how you'll spend your time as you ramp up:
  • 40% on Execution. Hands-on inside Meta Ads Manager and TikTok Ads Manager, setting up, configuring, monitoring, QA-ing, and troubleshooting campaigns, ad sets, ads, and tests under senior guidance
  • 30% on Analysis and Reporting. Diving into campaign and ad-level data across Meta, TikTok, Northbeam, and Data Studio to surface insights, build clear reports, and flag opportunities or issues to seniors
  • 20% on Creative Support. Summarising performance data for the creative team, helping brief in iterations, and learning the craft of building effective creative briefs
  • 10% on Strategy and Learning. Sitting in on planning sessions, supporting tests proposed by senior buyers, and gradually contributing your own ideas as you grow.

Requirements

  • 1 to 2 Years in DTC Paid Social. Hands-on experience setting up and managing campaigns in Meta Ads Manager (Facebook and Instagram) and ideally TikTok Ads Manager
  • Solid Foundations in Performance Marketing. Familiarity with direct response, conversion campaigns, and core paid social KPIs including CPA, ROAS, CAC, MER, eROAS, NC-ROAS, CTR, and CVR
  • Awareness of the Modern Meta Landscape. Familiarity with Advantage+ Sales Campaigns (ASC) and the broader shift toward AI-driven, broad-targeting campaign types is a plus
  • Data Comfortable. Confident in spreadsheets and analytics platforms, able to pull, structure, and interpret campaign data without hand-holding. Exposure to Northbeam, Data Studio, or similar attribution and reporting tools is a plus
  • Shopify Awareness. Working knowledge of how DTC ecommerce operates on Shopify, and how paid social fits into the broader funnel
  • Comfortable with AI Tools. Comfortable using AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude to speed up reporting, analysis, and day-to-day workflows is a strong plus
  • Detail-Oriented and Organised. You build clean, well-structured campaigns, name things consistently, and don't let things slip through the cracks
  • Eager to Learn. Energised by a fast-moving environment, open to feedback, and proactive about asking questions and developing your craft
  • Clear Communicator. Able to explain what you've done, what you're seeing in the data, and what you'd recommend, in writing and verbally
  • Team Player. Happy to roll up your sleeves and support the team in whatever way is most useful, with a strong sense of accountability for your own work

Benefits

  • Private Health Care through Vitality
  • Generous Annual Leave. 28 days plus public and bank holidays
  • Flexible Working Hours. We focus on results and trust people to manage their time, whether working from home, while travelling, or in the office
  • Help@Hand Employee Assistance Programme
  • Royal London Pension Scheme. We offer a workplace pension scheme with one of the UK's leading providers of group pensions, with an employer contribution of 5%
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave, because time with new family members is important
  • Puppy Therapy. Working in partnership with Paws in Work to provide a boost of oxytocin twice a year
  • Generous Learning and Development budget. We always want you to keep learning
  • Free breakfast, fruit, and snacks in the office
  • Working Environment. Dogs are welcome
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Founded in 2018
London, England, GBR
187 employees (42 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$26K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.5%
Direct
53.7%
Referral
4.7%
Social
11.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~188

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
33 (18% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3