Performance Executive, Social

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Role Summary and Impact

As a Performance Executive, you will oversee the strategy, planning, implementation, and reporting of biddable platform (Social). You will also provide guidance to the team working on those brands and supporting core team to develop the business capabilities across accounts.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Performance Manager/Performance Director.

Skills and Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It's what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media's shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust .
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise .

3 best things about the job:

• Working with an extremely diverse, international group of individuals both at GroupM and with the agencies.
• Exposure to all digital platforms within the Social team.
• Opportunity to expand the learning on Biddable Media, on digital planning and strategy.

Measures of success –

In three months:

• Have a basic understanding about all Social platforms
• Begun to build a rapport with stakeholders, teams and/or clients
• Began looking for growth opportunities within the accounts for paid social
• Begin to support the performance manager in different platforms basic work
• A general idea of the social behaviors of the individual client's audience and targeting

In six months:

• Have a full understanding of each of the client goals
• Have streamlined the efficient processes to make reporting, management, or collaboration easier for internal and external teams.
• Have made some significant strides in optimizations within the accounts for social
• Have a full understanding of the biddable behaviors within the individual clients

In twelve months:

• Be an expert on your dedicated client's social campaigns
• Increased the adoption of other biddable and digital services
• Brought value to biddable team. Worked closely with biddable team to bring the change
• Amplified client knowledge on strategic approach to biddable channels

Responsibilities of the role:

• Oversee the planning, implementation, and reporting of Performance across multiple clients
• Set expectations and deliver on multiple projects at the same time
• Hitting Performance KPIs for clients which works to prove the value of paid social to the clients and internal teams
• Be able to provide meaningful insights and analysis when sending reports to clients/core teams
• Should be responsible for maintaining a forum for continuous learning and knowledge sharing
• To have learned and trained yourself to be able to talk basic digital.

What you will need:

• Basic understanding of all paid social mechanisms and their implications – generally acquired with at least 1-2 years of progressive experience
• Can confidently speak to clients
• Prior experience on multiple client's basic social implementations and optimizations
  Medium to Large budget campaign experience preferred

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we're just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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