Supervisor, Social Strategy; Temp

Job Description Who We Are

Horizon Next is one of the industry's most innovative and data-driven marketing organizations and sits at the intersection of three constantly changing landscapes: people, data, and media.

Our business provides strategic leadership to accelerate growth for our clients through brand strategy, media planning and investment, and best in class analytics across all channels.

As the leader in innovative business solutions, we are always pushing ourselves to understand what’s next: our next innovation, our next advancement in analytics, the market’s next media evolution, and your next breakthrough idea.

Horizon Next operates with the single goal that tomorrow must outperform today.

At Horizon Next, we understand the value that different perspectives can bring to our clients and culture, so we strive for an environment where our employees feel welcomed, safe and empowered.

We value YOU and believe that your authentic voice and unique perspective allows us to create a more rewarding culture, and experience, together.

Our simple recipe for success? We hire talented people (thinkers, doers, dreamers, makers), challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow.

• Supervise RFP creation and review of social partners, proposal analyses, and partner negotiations
• Oversee junior team campaign buying from set-up to keyword selection through to targeting buckets, optimization, and pacing/reporting; implement QA processes
• Guide planner in campaign set-up, including testing methodologies, reporting requirements, and optimization requirements, for ensuring full impact and efficiency of each campaign
• Ensure all trafficking and site tagging is accurate by junior team members
• Oversee automation adoption across campaign set-up, helping to identify pain points and opportunities

• Lead strategic social plan development in tandem with the Digital & Business Solutions teams
• Integrate social insights into overall planning process, incorporating data, research, and analytics into recommendations in order to deeply understand the role marketplace media plays in larger media objectives
• Partner closely with other Horizon Next teams (Business Solutions, Investment, etc.), building cross team relationships and incorporating relevant extensions
• Drive team brainstorms to kick off plan and consideration set development
• Develop POVs around relevant trends, tools, and emerging opportunities within paid social media
• Own creation and development of media specific documents such as media plans, objectives and strategies decks, and other related functions

• Maintain oversight of junior team member’s data analysis and corresponding client feedback to provide recommendations and optimizations
• Actively drive optimization strategies, proactively communicating challenges and opportunities to both internal teams and clients
• Parse through large datasets to provide critical thinking and analysis, as well as draw conclusions and discover actionable implications
• Lead in development of processes with Horizon Next Analytics & Business Intelligence teams to aggregate data and ensure standardization across Next accounts
• Oversee aggregation of data for dashboards/Excel trackers, as needed by account, ensuring accuracy and validity of data shown
• Determine set-up, including testing methodologies, reporting requirements, and optimization requirements, for ensuring full impact and efficiency of each campaign

• Own relationships with key partners during planning process, including Partners, Creative Agencies and Business Solutions team
• Take initiative in building relationships with other Horizon Next departments, i.e. Business Solutions, Traffic, Operations
• Apply knowledge of current/previous clients’ specific business and industry to enhance and further relationships
• Effectively build trust and establish positive relationships with clients
• Collaborate with Associate Director and Director to identify problems and recommend solutions

• Manage and develop junior team member(s), creating growth…