Media Buyer - UK

Poseidon Music Ltd; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Poseidon Music Ltd is seeking a talented marketer for a fully remote role. This position involves managing media buying for various platforms to promote arts events globally. Ideal candidates will possess critical thinking, organizational skills, and a strong background in social media advertising to optimize campaigns effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience with Facebook ads and media campaigns.
• High computer literacy, especially in advertising tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and creativity.

Responsibilities

• Set up and manage ads on platforms like Facebook and Google.
• Monitor campaign performance and analyze data.
• Assist with show cancellations and notify customers.

Skills

Critical thinking

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Problem-solving mindset

Interest in social media trends

Computer literacy

Education

BSc/BA in Advertising, Marketing, or similar field

Tools

MailChimp

SMS tools

Firetext

Job description

*This is a full time remote role with a rotating weekend schedule.

Week 1:

**Sunday to Wednesday: 8 hours flexitime

Thursday: 4pm - 2am

Week 2:

**Tuesday to Thursday: 8 hours flexitime

Friday & Saturday: 4pm - 2am

Week 3:

**Monday to Friday: 8 hours flexitime

**We work flexitime but most of the media buying team work 9:30am to 6:30pm -sometimes they start or end much later. You will be able to choose when you work on these days, as long as you complete 40 hours per week and are available for meetings with colleagues at mutually agreed times.

About Us

We are growing fast and looking for amazing people to join our team and contribute to our growth!

Working with us is a chance to help bring some of the world's most cutting-edge music and visual experiences to life, in an unconventional company where we respect skill, determination, creativity and kindness above all.

We use analytics and constant experimentation to make data-driven choices. A role with us is a chance to work at the very edge of marketing technology and technique, helping improve people’s lives by constantly experimenting, imagining possibilities and inventing new tools.

We are driven by:
• The desire to be the absolute best in our field.
• A passion to join art that improves people’s lives with its audiences.
• A wish to leave a legacy, and to help others leave theirs.

Job Description:

We are looking for a smart, curious marketer, with Facebook ads advertising experience, to join our Media buying team. The role will involve setting up and running / monitoring large Meta/Tiktok/Google Ads/Pinterest/Youtube campaigns to sell tickets for arts events worldwide. Additionally, we are looking for someone to help with monitoring our live shows for cancellations/postponements at weekends and notifying our customers if we have last minute cancellations.

To do this job effectively, you should possess great tactical and organisational skills and an experimental mindset.

Key Responsibilities

Media buying

• Ensure that advertisements reach target audiences at the lowest possible prices.
• Ensure that advertisements are appropriately displayed and creative.
• Monitor Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) and control costs/risks on a daily basis.
• Be creative -- experimenting with new platforms and channels, looking for new ways to reduce our cost per sale
• Maintain and adjust scheduling on an as-needed basis
• Analyze and optimize plans and performance
• Assist in identifying target audiences and feeding back analytics to the rest of the team

Weekend show cancellations

• Assist ticketing team with show cancellations or postponements
• Take tickets off sale in the event of cancellations or postponements
• Using MailChimp/SMS and Firetext to notify customers if shows have to be canceled or postponed

Qualifications:

• Outstanding critical thinking, attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Problem-solving mindset
• Interest in social media and media trends
• Highly computer literate
• BSc/BA in Advertising, Marketing, or similar field preferred.
• Fluent English

About the Role:

• 100% remote
• Supportive work culture, with team in 12 countries

More about our values

We expect:
• Hard work, including some off hours (since we are running shows round the world);
• World-class standards.
• Attention to detail; we are moving fast and don’t have time to be checking others’ work.
• Humor (lots of humor).
• Respect and consideration for other team-members and our audience.
• Ethics - while we push the boundaries of the tech, we always act with honesty and integrity.
• Long-term, big picture thinking.
• A collaborative outlook and attitude.
• Ownership of mistakes, and the ability to turn them in to learning opportunities. We don’t do guilt.
• Open, honest communication.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.