Specialist, Paid Social
Social. Data. Magic.
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What you will do
- Oversee end-to-end management of campaigns, ensuring alignment with client objectives and performance
- Manage campaigns across multiple platforms (e.g., Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat) and understand their unique features
- Optimise budgets, bids, and audience targeting based on performance data to improve efficiency and ROI
- Prepare and deliver detailed actionable reports, highlighting key metrics, successes, and areas for improvement
- Collaborate on cross-channel marketing efforts, ensuring paid social strategies complement broader campaigns
- Analyse performance data and apply findings to enhance campaign strategies
- Manage client relationships confidently, presenting reports and addressing queries with professionalism
- Design and execute A/B tests for ad creatives, placements, or audience segments to refine performance
- Identify opportunities for campaign growth, such as exploring new audiences or testing additional platforms
- Draft ad copy and coordinate with creative teams to ensure visuals align with campaign objectives
- Make creative recommendations and give creative insight to further enhance campaigns
- Live and breathe our company values: open, decisive, pioneering and together
Requirements
- You have at least three years of experience in Paid Social
- You have hands-on experience on platforms, including Meta and TikTok
- You have a passion for data and all things social
- You have proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets
- You understand the role Paid Social and creator content play in the wider social strategy
- You love building a rapport with people and have experience building productive relationships
- You have a natural eye for analysis
- You understand how to utilise new industry developments and technology
- You’re a confident communicator, always striving to surprise and delight your clients
- You’re self-motivated and ambitious with a positive "can-do" attitude
- You love staying on top of relevant news and trends, using this data to bring exciting creative concepts to life
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Department
- Social
- Locations
- Leeds
- Yearly salary
- £30,000 - £34,000
- Employment type
- Full-time

Leeds
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups, including Virgin, Sky and Oddbox.
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts (Vitality and Chakra Corporate) that our people can turn to.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us. Recent initiatives we are proud of include our cycling challenge for Breast Cancer Now, our donation to PhysCap and Jon’s campaign to support local food banks.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 25 days paid time off plus all federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year
- Unlimited unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation to create the performance brands of tomorrow.
Specialist, Paid Social
Social. Data. Magic.
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