Paid Social Manager (FTC)
Ocado Retail
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Hatfield
Contract type: Contractor

Paid Social Manager
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Location: Hatfield (Blended working – 3 days in the office)
Working hours per week: 40 hours
Application closing date: Tuesday 18th February
About Us
Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivalled service, and reassuringly good value.
We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service.
The Role
Ocado is looking for a Paid Social Manager to join our wonderful Paid Social team as a maternity cover.
As the Manager of the Paid Social stream, you will work closely with the Paid Social Executive and the Senior Paid Social Executive to help create award winning, highly innovative marketing campaigns to achieve our performance led goals. You are a team player who relishes a challenge and enjoys a fast-paced environment. You are able to juggle multiple tasks whilst demonstrating a passion for data, performance excellence, creative best practice and embody cross-team collaboration. You are constantly monitoring industry updates so that you are up to speed with the latest and greatest which you bring to work with you every day.
You’ll be able to work with our Martech Lead, our agency and our platform/s to further the Paid Social learning agenda for the year, ensuring we are challenging the art of the possible at all times so that we are always one step ahead.
It is an extremely exciting time to join Ocado where innovation, a start-up mentality and personal drive is highly championed.
What You'll Do
By joining Ocado Retail you’ll have the chance to experience life at the world’s largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what’s possible each day, and grow your skills and career in online retail.
If that’s not enough to tempt you, you’ll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal. Here’s a taste of what we offer:
Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with the option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market-leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance, and more.
Spend & Save: Recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast every day in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.
Never miss the moments that matter: Blended/Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy an extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.
Our Hiring Process
Lucky for us, we get loads of great applications and we really appreciate that so many people put the time and effort in to apply. To recognise that, we treat all applications respectfully and fairly. So, if yours stands out, you’ll follow our standard hiring process – one of our Talent Partners will talk you through this in an initial call.
Everyone’s welcome
We’re an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
Location: Hatfield (Blended working – 3 days in the office)
Working hours per week: 40 hours
Application closing date: Tuesday 18th February
About Us
Our mission is to deliver joy in every shop, through unbeatable choice, unrivalled service, and reassuringly good value.
We’re Ocado Retail, a market-leading, joint venture between Ocado Group and M&S and the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket ocado.com. Not only is Ocado.com the only place to shop a full range of M&S food online, but it’s also the home to the widest online supermarket range in the UK and champion of small, independent brands. We’re also the brains behind Zoom by Ocado, our same-day grocery delivery service.
The Role
Ocado is looking for a Paid Social Manager to join our wonderful Paid Social team as a maternity cover.
As the Manager of the Paid Social stream, you will work closely with the Paid Social Executive and the Senior Paid Social Executive to help create award winning, highly innovative marketing campaigns to achieve our performance led goals. You are a team player who relishes a challenge and enjoys a fast-paced environment. You are able to juggle multiple tasks whilst demonstrating a passion for data, performance excellence, creative best practice and embody cross-team collaboration. You are constantly monitoring industry updates so that you are up to speed with the latest and greatest which you bring to work with you every day.
You’ll be able to work with our Martech Lead, our agency and our platform/s to further the Paid Social learning agenda for the year, ensuring we are challenging the art of the possible at all times so that we are always one step ahead.
It is an extremely exciting time to join Ocado where innovation, a start-up mentality and personal drive is highly championed.
What You'll Do
- Analyses and reporting – weekly, monthly and longer term performance insights
- Creative – prioritisation, best practice, organisation and co-ordination between Ocado and our agency
- Cross-channel and team creative strategy
- Establish a robust test & learn agenda
- Agency relationship and task management
- Platform partner ownership
- Platform scaling
- Ownership of channel econometrics performance
- Regular budget reforecasting
- QBRs & monthly performance reviews
- Performance improvement and scaling
- An understanding of profit bidding
- Audience management
- Line management and training of junior team members
- An autonomous, capable leader who is pro-active and possesses a start-up mentality
- Experience in managing and getting the best out of a team
- An interest in data and analytics
- Problem solver with a can-do attitude
- Strong levels of attention-to-detail
- An in depth, hands-on knowledge of platforms, namely: Meta (including Instagram), Pinterest, Snapchat and TikTok
- Experience with creative excellence and working with a creative team to help bring best practice to life
By joining Ocado Retail you’ll have the chance to experience life at the world’s largest online retailer, work with an amazing bunch of people who challenge what’s possible each day, and grow your skills and career in online retail.
If that’s not enough to tempt you, you’ll also get access to loads of great benefits to sweeten the deal. Here’s a taste of what we offer:
Health & Wellbeing: Private medical insurance with the option to add your family, Digital GP appointments, market-leading family policies, mental health support, discounted gym memberships, dental insurance, and more.
Spend & Save: Recognition with reward platform, up to 7% matched pension contributions, 15% Ocado discount, 20% M&S discount, free breakfast every day in the office, electric vehicle leasing scheme and free shuttle bus from Hatfield station to the office.
Never miss the moments that matter: Blended/Hybrid working, 26 days holiday plus 8 flexible bank holidays, options to buy an extra holiday, 2 weeks work from anywhere, and lifestyle break opportunities.
Our Hiring Process
Lucky for us, we get loads of great applications and we really appreciate that so many people put the time and effort in to apply. To recognise that, we treat all applications respectfully and fairly. So, if yours stands out, you’ll follow our standard hiring process – one of our Talent Partners will talk you through this in an initial call.
Everyone’s welcome
We’re an equal opportunities employer. That means that we make sure all potential colleagues are treated fairly and equally. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form.
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