Paid Social Account Manager - John Lewis

About the Role:

MG OMD is looking for a talented Paid Social Account Manager to take the lead on the John Lewis account, managing its day-to-day paid social activity. This is an exciting opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most iconic retail brands, shaping and delivering a best-in-class paid social strategy across the full funnel. The role will focus on driving both brand awareness and performance, ensuring campaigns are aligned with business objectives and deliver strong ROI.

John Lewis is a sophisticated advertiser with a strong in-house team, so we are looking for someone with previous experience running multi-channel paid social campaigns across Meta, Pinterest, TikTok etc., with a strong grasp of retail and e-commerce. You’ll need to be comfortable working with large budgets, interpreting complex data, and using insights to continuously refine and improve performance.

As a key member of the team, you’ll work closely with the Account Director to develop and execute strategic media plans, optimising campaigns to exceed performance goals while staying true to the brand’s premium positioning. You’ll also play a crucial role in managing and mentoring several (Senior) Account Executives, ensuring effective workload delegation and supporting their development.

If you’re looking for a dynamic, collaborative role where you can make a real impact on one of the UK’s most loved brands, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying. ​

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.​ 

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.  

With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference. ​ 

So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.  ​​ 

We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work. ​ 

In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.