HEAD OF SOCIAL

Medialab Group

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Medialab has seen consistent and significant digital capability and revenue growth in the last three years, with Digital, across PPC, Paid Social and Display, tripling in size and diversifying 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. We need the very best talent to inspire clients, develop talent, accelerate existing operations, and build new products to deliver brilliant outcomes for our client partners, ensuring Medialab develops a brilliant reputation for its digital activation.

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

Deliver channel growth in the core business by excelling in our current operations, engaging with partners, and operating collaboratively and efficiently 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 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 social to ensure we leverage 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 innovative 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 optimizing Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, TikTok Ads, and LinkedIn Ads.
• Strong knowledge of integrating paid social strategies with organic and supporting 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 optimize.
• Must be commercially and business-minded, demonstrating a proven track record in driving growth and identifying new business opportunities across all social platforms.
• Strong data analysis skills and proficiency with 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 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. 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 SunLife, Standard Life, Laithwaites Wine, EMMA, Save the Children, Mind, Guide Dogs, Alzheimer’s Society, RNLI, and Clearscore.

We’re a diverse team of 150 people (and growing), based near Oxford Circus. Our people-first, purpose-driven culture has been key to our success. We commit to creating a more sustainable future through our partnership with FuturePlus and foster a diverse and inclusive culture through a number of DEI Communities to drive real change. We offer a supportive environment for working parents, carers, those who are (peri)menopausal, and anyone else who needs it, along with flexible working opportunities from day one.

Our entrepreneurial spirit means success is rewarded and there are no limits to what you can achieve, which our employees agree with, supporting our place in Campaign’s ‘Best Places to work’ for four years in a row. We recently won Silver in Campaign’s Agency of the Year Awards.