HEAD OF SOCIAL

London, England, United Kingdom

10/21/2024

The Opportunity

Medialab has seen consistent and significant digital capability and revenue growth in the last three years and Digital, across PPC, Paid Social and Display has tripled in size and diversified significantly in the same period.

We are now building plans to deliver the next stage of our ambitious agency growth plans, with digital as a natural driver of growth and we need the very best talent to inspire clients, develop talent, accelerate existing operations and build new products to accelerate growth and deliver brilliant outcomes for our client partners. so that Medialab develops a brilliant reputation for its digital activation.

This role presents the opportunity to be the voice of Social within Medialab. Ensure that the agency appreciates the value the social media can bring to clients, understands what needs to be done to deliver the service, and to guide to ensure best-in-class execution that naturally drives growth.

Deliver channel growth in the core business by being brilliant at what we currently do, how we engage with partners, how we operate collaboratively and efficiently internally through quality of product, consistency of process and talent distribution.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and inspire people within the agency to excel in the execution of the paid social, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Develop a consistent, accountable and effective approach to executing best in class campaigns across our client teams
• Lead the development of the social to ensure we are taking advantage of market, partner and product developments to create a distinctive proposition
• Consistently report, communicate, and educate around the growth & development of social media and how it relates to wider business goals
• Collaborate with channel and department leads to ensure social is seamlessly integrated into marketing strategy
• Proactively drive growth for our clients and foster relationships with key client stakeholders
• Build transparent, collaborative, outcomes based and innovate media partner relationships.
  
  

The Skills You Will Bring

• Proven experience delivering and teaching others best-in-class activation in search
• Unsurpassed skills in managing and optimising Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, TikTok Ads, and LinkedIn Ads.
• Strong knowledge of integrating paid social strategies with organic and ability to support clients with content planning.
• Ability to translate complex social media metrics and concepts into clear, actionable strategies for clients and team members.
• Inquisitive mind with a constant drive to optimise
• Must be commercially and business minded and be able to demonstrate this across the role requirements with a proven track record in driving growth and identifying new business opportunities across all social platforms.
• Strong data analysis skills and proficiency with all standard reporting tools.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience leading and mentoring a team of 5+paid media specialists
• Personable with a strong desire to help people flourish
  
  

What To Expect From Us

Working at Medialab comes with lots of perks including all the usual things you would expect, such as a competitive salary package, pension, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, weekly social events and big summer / end of year parties.

On top of that, we offer extra incentives which make life at Medialab even more rewarding:

• 25 days holiday, (including office closure between Christmas and New Year)
• Birthday day off
• Mental Health Awareness Day off
• Holiday buying scheme
• Hybrid working between office and home.
• Flexi-hours
• Work abroad scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Retail discounts
• Quarterly reviews to enhance career progression.
• Continuous professional development and training - CPD Platinum accreditation by the IPA
• Internal mentoring programme
• Membership to Bloom and bespoke mentorship for female talent
• A long weekend/week away at Medialab’s expense for long service
• Charity volunteering days fully paid.
• Free access to Health and Wellbeing Apps.
• Free professional counselling.Access to Mental Health Allies (1 in 15 employees are trained in Mental Health First Aid).
• Enhanced parental leave pay for new parents
• Virtual Dentist
  
  

Who We Are

Medialab is the UK’s leading independent media agency, and one of the fastest growing in the industry. We’re a media agency that’s made differently: purpose-led, data-driven, founder-run and proudly independent.

Our independence means we can focus 100% on doing the right thing to secure success for our clients and our brilliant people. We work with a wide variety of clients including Sharps Bedrooms, SunLife, Standard Life, Laithwaites Wine, EMMA, Save the Children, Mind, Guide Dogs, Hovis, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI and Clearscore.

Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is rewarded and there are no limits to what you can achieve, which our employees agree with, evidenced by being a Campaign ‘Best Place to work’ for the last 4 years in a row. We are IPA Effectiveness accredited, an IPA People-First agency and widely awarded including a double-gold at the 2024 IPA Effectiveness Awards for our work with Laithwaites.