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Paid Social Media Account Manager, Manchester

Employment Type

Full Time

Application Start Date

15-09-2025

Application End Date

14-10-2025

Location

Manchester

Description

About Citypress

We are a leading PR, social and creative communications agency that works with clients to promote and protect their brands and reputations.

Our team of over 100 people across the UK have diverse backgrounds and work together to deliver award-winning communications advice and campaigns.

Citypress is independently run, employee-owned and one of the top employers in the PR sector. We have featured in The Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies list for four years are the most-awarded agency in the PRWeek Best Places to Work awards over the last six years and have been named as a PRWeek Agency of the Decade. 

We are an entrepreneurial agency with a great culture that backs people to develop their careers and deliver their best work.

Our culture is inclusive, and we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We welcome people with different life experiences to bring valuable insight and perspectives to our agency and clients.

About this role

We are growing our team and would love to hear from people that have as much passion for social media as we do. 

We’re looking for someone with 3-5 years’ previous experience within a paid social media role.

This role is ideal for a highly organised, passionate individual looking to deepen their experience, work with leading brands and benefit from our comprehensive learning and development programme. 

You’ll work with a brilliant team of social media specialists who all share an enthusiasm for new ideas and innovation, supported by a dedicated line manager. 

Role responsibilities

Building ads in social media channels with core focus on Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok

Leading on high quality paid strategies and media plans

Managing budgets and ensuring team are completing daily spend checks and making recommendations on optimisations

Reporting and analysing paid social media performance, and presenting results and insight back to clients

Helping lead the delivery of social media client programmes, joining meetings as a specialist when expert paid social consultancy is needed

Building client relationships and contributing to new business activity and proposals

Role requirements

Essential

Expert paid knowledge in Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok

Organisational skills and ability to independently prioritise workload

Strong focus on accuracy and precision, and proficient in Microsoft Excel

Confident with analysing data and reporting

Eagerness to share paid knowledge and lead upskilling initiatives across other members of the social team 

Comfortable presenting to stakeholders and clients, and strong ability to translate results into client-friendly, digestible insight

A passion for paid social and measurement 

Proactive, solution-focused approach

A good work ethic, flexibility and enthusiasm to delivery work and results of a consistently high standard

Strong team player and ability to communicate effectively within internal teams

Critical thinking skills

Desirable

Experience with paid activity on YouTube and Reddit

Experience in other digital marketing channels e.g. SEO, PPC, GEO

Ecommerce experience (pixel implantation and management, catalogue management, attribution tracking)

Proactivity with learning and trialling emerging AI technologies

Familiarity with reporting tools and dashboards e.g. Looker Studio and Super metrics

If you need help with our application process, please contact recruitment@citypress.co.uk