
Senior Social Media Specialist
Vodafone
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Midrand • South Africa
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About the role
- Take full end-to-end responsibility of paid media performance advertising, with a clear focus on performance-based, sales-driving reach and targeting activities via digital media advertising platforms
- Lead paid biddable media advertising activities, including campaign and targeting strategies, KPIs and targets
- Continuously monitor performance and identify and analyse deviating patterns to generate insights for optimisation
- Constantly improve paid media technology stack; connect to Vodafone CRM, DMP and other data pools, ensure stable tracking
- Drive breakthrough digital marketing innovation
Requirements
- Matric and a 3 year Business related Degree or National Diploma essential
- Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
- Practical experience in implementing campaigns across platforms
- Google, Meta and TikTok qualifications beneficial
- Minimum of 5 to 8 years relevant experience essential in:
- Digital media and channels
- Paid biddable media platforms including product feeds and account automation tools
- Driving commercial & operational targets for the digital media domain – sales, revenue, profitability, adoption of the products and services
- Detailed understanding of paid advertising based on hands-on experience of managing campaigns through paid media platforms
- Experience in managing digital media for large consumer facing brands
- Creating strategic plans to win market share from competitors
- Capable of working in a complex matrix organisation and able to build strong relationships and credibility with multiple levels both internally and externally
- Established industry relationships with media partners – Google, Meta, TikTok, Adform etc.
Benefits
- Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
- Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
- Cell phone and data benefits
- Advantages fibre connection discounts
- Exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies
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Hard Skills & Tools
paid media performance advertisingcampaign strategiesKPI managementperformance optimisationdigital marketing innovationaccount automation toolspaid advertising managementstrategic planningdata analysissales-driving reach
Soft Skills
relationship buildingcredibilityleadershipcommunicationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitystrategic thinkingorganizational skills
Certifications
Google qualificationsMeta qualificationsTikTok qualifications