Media Buyer

Welcome to this job posting.

We are Heavy Head Social, an eCommerce Marketing Agency specialising in fashion and we are currently hiring someone for our Media Buyer Role to join our international remote team.

The right fit will/will be:

* A fantastic communicator, a team player, and enjoy working in a group/team to achieve a common goal.
* Have a real passion for ads, fashion eCommerce and building individual client strategies.
* Creatively inclined and able to execute their vision with the help of our creative partners.
* Resilient enough to push through boundaries/bottlenecks and confident enough to bring ideas to the table.
* Willing and open to learn new things as well as new advertising platforms
* Continually strive to upskill/ improve their own knowledge (of the platforms and current strategies/techniques etc.) in order to perform their job to the best standard/meet their KPIs
* Result-driven and motivated to grow clients brands/meet client expectations through analysis, collaboration, strategy building and continual testing/optimisation.
* Have excellent organisation and time management skills and be able to work on their own initiative.
* Take pride in their work and have a high level of attention to detail and quality control.
* Someone with bags of energy who thrives working in a collaborative, dynamic environment.
* Able to work towards KPIs, targets and deadlines.

Responsibilities/Expectations:

* Be familiar with (and know the difference between) lookalikes, custom audiences, CPM’s, manual bidding, cost caps, and all different creative variants in Facebook.
* Work towards and achieve your individual set KPI.
* Being fully aware of the client’s business, objectives and KPIs for success and using this knowledge in the thought and decision-making process.
* Being able to fully understand, analyse and link advertising metrics on the platforms we manage for a client.
* Analyse the impact of multiple advertising platforms and how these tie together and use this in your decision making and optimisation process.
* Carry out thorough brand, avatar and competitor research and understand the importance of this when building out and implementing individual client strategies..
* Creative research and analysis and understanding the importance of this when building out individual client content on each individual platform. (i.e. luxury brand, feature/benefit heavy etc. and what works format of content worlds best on each platform)
* Copywriting specifically tailored to brands and their avatars
* Know how to turn creative ideas into fully finished products with our creative team.
* Managing and implementing strategies, angles, sales moments, content, campaigns etc. across multiple accounts/platforms to meet the clients individual KPI’s/goals and expectations.
* Continual analysis of ad performance metrcis (including creative metrics) across all platforms, with the aim to use the data to test, improve and optimise their accounts performance for growth.
* Continual analysis and optimisation of budget spend split across all advertising platforms.
* Being proactive on any underperforming account against KPI’s and taking the appropriate measures to help get the performance back in line with the required metrics.
* Giving feedback and advice to clients based on experience, research, and knowledge of the platforms.
* Ensuring the attention to detail/quality control is of HHS standards and the clients’ branding and individual expectations are met.
* Keeping up to date in their knowledge of the platforms (including any new techniques/strategies) as well as upskilling themselves to deliver their best and meet their KPIs.
* Understanding how to prioritise, knowing what’s urgent and what will make the biggest impact for the client and the agency and acting upon that first.
* Understanding the implications any action/decision made has on the performance of the client’s account and on the rest of the team.
* Take full ownership of accounts and hold themselves accountable for the client’s performance.
* Keeping the team fully informed of all changes and updates happening on the clients’ accounts all times.
* Assist in the training and progression of the junior or new members on our team when and if needed.
* Work with, manage and effectively delegate to the assistant media buyer allocated to their accounts. (while maintaining a full overview and ownership)
* Follow all company processes and live and breathe our Culture Manual.
* Understanding that we are an international agency and we work with clients from all over the world in different time-zones.
* Understand that Media Buying is not a 9 to 5 job and Facebook never sleeps. And that we are an international agency working with clients from all over the world
* Report to the Account Managers (& Leadership Team where relevant) on all the above as and when required.

Requirements

* Have a minimum of 1 year of experience running eCommerce Facebook/Instagram Ads.
* Experienced in managing $10k+ budgets per month on Facebook (single ad account), with a strong track record of proven results within the eCommerce space – preferably fashion.
* Have worked in a team environment before and enjoyed it.
* Be fluent in English (spoken and written).
* Google, Pinterest and TikTok ad experience would be beneficial but not essential (and training can be provided)
* Some knowledge of the following platforms would be a plus – Asana, Slack & Google Workspace.

Why work at Heavy Head Social?

* Passion is at the heart of our company. We are continuously moving forward, innovating, and improving our services with our clients in mind.
* We like to support one another, grow together and have some fun along the way. Work with a modern, innovative, and light-hearted team that believes in working hard and playing hard.
* Perfect if you enjoy working remotely and being location independent. This is a remote full-time contractor role.
* Incentives for scaling accounts past performance based threshold.
* Holiday entitlement based on Irish Holidays with extra bank holidays.
* Incentives to gain extra holiday days and rewards.
* Upskilling time out.

Our team members are key at Heavy Head Social. We like to support one another, grow together and have some fun along the way. If you believe you are a great addition to our team submit your application, let us know why and make sure COFFEE is the first word to your application, or we won’t be checking it.

Best of luck!