Sam Tooke
Consultant - EMEA
I work on our agency & brand team across EMEA, and my role is to support our partners both existing & new, to find the best talent from junior level roles through to senior appointments.
Roles include:
Paid Media Analyst – Growth focused Media Agency
Media Manager, Digital – Digital Agency
Digital Media Manager – Global Consumer Product Brand
Paid Social Manager – Independent Social Agency
Biddable Account Manager – Hyper Growth Digital Agency
With the world of media ever-changing, I’m learning on a day to day basis around the evolution of technology and how brands can engage with their consumers via new channels. If you can help continue my learning's, I’d love to hear from you.
Area's of specialism: Paid Media, Media Planning, PPC, Paid Social, Account Management & Media Buying
Sam Tooke's Jobs
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Senior Social Media Strategist - Sports!!
London, England
Negotiable
Would you rather be in the pub watching football than sat at your desk building social campaigns for clients you don't have any interest in?Are you a paid social strategist who is bored of their clients and wants to work on something they're truly passionate about?They say if you love your job then you never work a day in your life - here is your opportunity.This role is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join a fantastic marketing agency who are sports centric, entrusted by many of the world's most well-known sports federations and leagues to grow and engage online audiences.The role will entail being a crucial team member in driving and leading the paid social aspect of some of the world's biggest sports events, creating, leading and implementing social media strategies for this agencies clients in order to drive brand awareness, depth of engagement and long term conversions of followers and loyal sports fans.This position requires someone who is a progressive thinker and an innovator who can map out where and how digital can work in tandem with their client's business. The role is based around building hype, awareness and sparking interest in huge sporting events via dedicated social media strategies.Key responsibilities:Achieving the client's strategic objectives by leading the team on execution of social strategiesDeveloping multi-year approaches to achieve ambitious reach objectives and engagement, ensuring social media is maximised to meet business objectivesAdvise on media buying plans, tracking KPI's and targets on top of end to end campaign management from planning to development, execution and reporting to senior stakeholdersEnsuring a market leading presence on all social media platforms including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube and TiktokDeveloping new ideas and innovative new social media solutions to identify new avenues for reach and engagementOversee influencer marketing and the aid in building new active brand ambassadorsManaging a team below you of other Social media strategists and delegatesExperience required:Expert knowledge of all paid media platforms, digital content and social media activitiesExtensive knowledge working in a digital media organisation/agency with a role of digital media planner/buyer or strategistExtensive experience developing and implementing digital and social media strategiesExperience directing content teamsProven experience of online communications, communities and developing and implementing influencer strategiesConfident using Google Analytics, Facebook insights and other digital tracking/analytical toolsKnowledge of innovation in sportUnderstanding of the latest developments across the major social platforms and how they can be applied to achieve brand objectivesThis role will require work outside standard Monday - Friday work hours, meaning candidates must be able to show flexibility in hours to meet project demands
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Social Media Strategist
London, England
Up to £35000 per annum
Would you rather be in the pub watching football than sat at your desk building social campaigns for clients you don't have any interest in?Are you a senior paid social executive who is bored of their clients and wants to work on something they're truly passionate about?They say if you love your job then you never work a day in your life - here is your opportunity. This is a role at a fantastic marketing agency who are sports centric, entrusted by many of the world's most well-known sports federations and leagues to grow and engage online audiences.The role will entail being a crucial team member in driving and managing the paid social aspect of some of the worlds biggest sports events, creating, leading and implementing social media strategies for this agencies clients in order to drive brand awareness, depth of engagement and long term conversions of followers and loyal sports fans.This position requires someone who is a progressive thinker and an innovator who can map out where and how digital can work in tandem with their client's business. The role is based around building hype, awareness and sparking interest in huge sporting events via dedicated social media strategies. Responsibilities of the position:Achieving the client's strategic brand/business objectives through advising and guiding the local team on strategical plansDeveloping multi-year approaches to achieve ambitious KPIs around reach and engagementRecommending and executing media buying plansManaging KPI's and target monitoring, tracking and report generationEnd to end campaign management, from idea, to development, implementation and post campaign analysisAbility to manage campaigns across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Snapchat & Tiktok via their relevant ads managing platformsManaging and building an active brand ambassador network Requirements:Extensive experience developing and implementing digital and social media strategiesExperience in a hands on role in an agency or consumer brand environmentProven experience in online communications & online community managementCandidate is ideally from a planning, buying, analyst or digital media strategist backgroundForward and strategic thinking mindset who can make decisions backed up by solid commercial reasoning and analyticsMad about social and a keen interest in sports, culture, travel and tourismKnowledge of project management tools and ads manager tools related to the roleThis role will also involve work outside of regular Monday-Friday hours so a candidate should express flexibility to work in order to meet project demands.
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Innovation Manager - Media planning & Strategy
London, England
£35000 - £38000 per annum
Does developing global media strategies excite you?Are you someone who would love to work in a team who are at the cutting edge of media solutions and multi-year roadmaps? This is a fantastic career opportunity for a senior account executive or recent account manager to evolve their career into the UK's largest global media strategy team who create only innovative ideas and guide local implementation for hubs around the world.The agency who this role is with are one of the UK's top media agencies who work across the world with brands of global status. With thousands of employees in over a hundred offices in 80+ countries this agency is a true powerhouse of the media world and this is an amazing opportunity to become part of their world-renowned planning team. This team involves driving campaign-based innovation and guiding the implementation teams on executing their plans as well as creating new strategy plans spanning multiple years, defining the brand's long-term media strategy and message. What an ideal candidate would bring to the table:Relevant industry experience within a media agency or a digital agency with a proven record of delivering strategic and new ideas.A strong understanding of the media environment, industry and the key partners, players, publishers and media ownersExceptional client servicing abilityAwareness and ability to use research tools, devices and publicly available dataCurrent knowledge of media owners, content owners, production agencies & research companiesAbility to deal with senior client and stakeholders across the globe
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Business Director - Independent media agency
London, England
Negotiable
Do you believe in a better system of how to plan and buy media? Are you of the opinion that out there somewhere is a better solution for your client, but you just don't know what that currently looks like? Well, you might have just found it! An extremely rare opportunity to work at a boutique independent agency who have just won a huge piece of business from a large network agency and is looking to hire their next greatest Business Director to lead the account. This is an agency who pride themselves on do things differently to the huge network agencies, and as such have attracted the clients who are willing to let them take the reigns and lead them headfirst into 2020. Built upon by legendary people in the media world, this agency is in immediate need for a candidate who are looking for an alternative approach to big agency life. With a flat hierarchy structure and a close family feel this is a workplace where you can truly make an impact on the client that you will lead. This role will require an incredible client facing skillset so you must be well equipped in conversing and presenting to very senior client stakeholders on a regular basis.You're not going to have a team underneath you, so you will be leading all the planning and buying of all projects and need to be collaborative as you'll work hand in hand with a number of partners, ranging from media owners all the way through to creative agencies, and everything in between (obviously including clients). I could go on for ages, but I'll leave it like this. If you think differently and want to change the face of media, then let's have a coffee.
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Senior Paid Social Executive
London, England
Negotiable
Are you a paid social executive who wants to take a step up into working at one of the UK's leading media agencies? Do you want to be a crucial member of one of their flagship clients' performance team? This agency operates in over 85 markets worldwide and are the most decorated network across the globe aiming to be the most creative performance agency in the scene. This opportunity is a real, rare chance to join a dynamic and ambitious team working across paid social campaigns for a brand of household name status. If you are passionate about delivering measurable performance for your clients via audience targeting, testing, optimisation and using the latest in biddable technology then this position is right for you. They are looking for someone who can hit the ground at full pace and deliver on a range of different campaigns across the clients' portfolio. What the role will entail:Hands on planning, buying and strategy of social campaigns with support from the other more senior members of the teamManagement of Youtube and other relevant biddable channels eg Amazon and other retailersSeeking to identify areas of cross channel efficiency and implementing consistent process in order to move resources away from manual implementation to strategy and innovative optimisation efforts.Deliver best in class performance for clients against more KPI's.Being a best in class expert in your specialism, with an understanding of the latest paid social trends through training and publisher updatesAn ambitious, collaborative, and curious mindset
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Senior Paid Search Executive
London, England
£24000 - £28000 per annum
I have partnered with one of the UK's leading media agencies working with some of the biggest clients across the globe. They are looking for a new Senior Paid Search Executive to join their growing team of PPC and SEO specialists to work on a portfolio of some of the world's biggest brands!If you are a Paid Search Executive who wants to get their foot in the door of one of the worlds best media agencies this is the perfect opportunity. This agency has one of the best work cultures around and have a host of benefits they provide for their employees. For this position they are looking long term for someone to join and learn and develop to progress their career, just to top it off - the agency is in Central London with a fantastic office at skyline level and a rooftop garden!For the role the main responsibilities are working with search engine partners to run best in class Paid Search Campaigns and building media plans to achieve specified KPI's. Carrying out account optimisation in order to improve performance and contributing to client meetings with prepared material to present on performance and future plans. Role requirements:A demonstratable knowledge of running paid search campaigns through Google Ads and Microsoft AdvertisingExperience setting up, optimizing, reporting and navigating campaigns through the above tools and search management platforms such as SA360An experience using audiences & automation to optimise paid search campaignsA strong understanding of Paid Search best practises and search management capabilitiesAdvanced experience of Excel and PowerPointProactive mindset to improving your knowledge and skillsetEnthusiasm to progress within digital media and performance channelsInternational experience, additional languages and programming/coding skills are not required but are advantageousResponsibilities:Running paid search campaigns working with search engine partnersBuilding media plans to achieve specified KPI'sAn understanding of how paid search campaigns can be tracked using SA360, Google Analytics or other 3rd party appsCarrying out regular optimisation in order to achieve KPIsPresenting prepared material to clients about performance and upcoming plansCarrying out regular campaign and budget management checksManaging workloads of multiple clients submitting work to the manager by agreed upon deadlines
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Biddable Account Manager
London, England
£30000 - £35000 per annum
I've partnered up with a fantastic Agency based in Soho who are looking for an experienced biddable executive to join their busy performance team and act as their client lead. This agency is known for building media strategies based not just on audience profiling but understanding how audiences think, act and feel. This allows the brands message to connect with the right audience members at the right time to cause the outcome they wanted. They believe that its no longer about target demographics, but more about reaching the audience with the right mindset!With offices around the Europe this role would be based in their Soho office, in the middle of central London known for its buzzing nightlife and great places to grab lunch on your break! This position is involved around working with multiple clients across different industries which means they are looking for someone to join with a go-getter attitude and the ability and mindset to work in a fast paced environment who can think on their feet to get problems solved and manage senior client members!The role involves managing the day-to-day running of Paid Social & Paid Search Accounts, managing the end-to-end brief to execution and reporting of paid media campaigns and ensuring best practise is carried out across all campaigns! Role responsibilities:Day-to-day running of Paid Social & Paid Search AccountsManaging Paid media executionWorking in tandem with senior team members to ensure best practise and campaign optimisation via: Audience strategy, PPC management (bid, ad copy, landing page optimisation)A working knowledge of all relevant technical programs e.g. (Google Ads, Doubleclick, Facebook Ads Manager)Ensuring business relationships are maintained with search engine and social platforms as well as client teams! Perks:Agency benefits such as Pension, Private Health & Life insurance, Interest free season ticket loan, Learning/qualification budget supportSemi-flexable working hoursSubsidized trips and activities regularly run within the agencyWeekend away + Summer and Christmas Parties