Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world's most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands' legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future.
Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands' uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we're celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you'll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.
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About the role:
We're a young company born from an incredible entrepreneurial legacy. The success of Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Tanqueray and many more, over hundreds of years, led to the formation of our company in 1997. Today our team stands on the shoulder of these giants and acts with the same entrepreneurial spirit and determination!
Reporting to the Director of Media, we are looking for a Digital Activation Associate - focused primarily on paid social media platforms - to join our agile, creative and resourceful team, merging the art and science of paid media and creative content to optimize campaigns and drive tangible business results across US and Canada Diageo brands.
Based in our New York Offices and working hand in hand with the Central Media Team (CMT), the role will be wide and varied which means you will be liaising with a large number of both internal (brand) and external (e.g. media and creative agency) partners, therefore exceptional communication skills and project management will be key.
Role Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Media, Creative and Account Management
- Plan, implement and manage paid social media channels, with an emphasis of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest
- Support innovation against new platforms or partners as social and digital space continues to evolve
- Includes buying, tagging, optimization, and reporting for brands and responsibility of multi-million-dollar budgets
- Collaborate with media agency planning teams to incorporate tactical media plans and insights into well-rounded media deliverables (i.e. plans, reports, etc.) that are regularly presented to brand and creative agency teams
- Lead and manage daily media optimizations, collaborating with creative agencies to lead creative optimization process
- Help manage the administration and billing operations of Diageo North America infrastructure across social media accounts
- Measurement, Data and Analytics:
- Identify, develop and advocate for relevant pilots to support the brand and business strategies and learning agendas
- Lead testing and analysis of social media campaign performance metrics, using internal social analytics and return on investment measurement tools to optimize performance and meet business objectives
- Organize, analyze multiple datasets into regular reports that deliver actionable insights and presentations to inform planning and optimization for future media and content strategies
Experience / skills required:
Required:
- At least 1 year of experience in digital or social; preferably directly managing and buying paid social for a major consumer packaged goods or luxury brand
- BA or equivalent experience
- Expert Excel skills
- Experience in using social media analytics platforms such as Sprinklr or native channel analytics such as Facebook Insights/Business Manager
Preferred:
- Knowledge, love and curiosity for social data and the impact it can have on the business
- Work with large data sets
- Demonstrated critical thinking ability
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects at a time while paying attention to detail
- Deep understanding of social media data caveats by channel and how these caveats can affect reporting
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confidently lead debrief sessions, often to a senior audience
- Self-starter who is comfortable with a rapidly changing environment
- Agile, energetic, relentless drive to succeed, great teammate
- Used to working with a variety of partners and building relationships
- Deal with a large volume of requests and know how to prioritize workload
- Bonus:
- Experience with social listening platforms
- Knowledge in SQL, Salesforce, statistical tools and/or programming
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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