Paid Social & Display Specialist (Maternity Cover)

About Elixirr

Elixirr International plc is a global consulting firm with a bold ambition: to become the best consulting firm in the world.

Founded in 2009 to challenge a declining industry standard, we’ve grown from a single vision into a powerhouse of entrepreneurial talent, delivering boardroom strategy through to execution.

After IPO-ing on AIM in July 2020, Elixirr moved to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in July 2025. In that time, our market cap has grown from £98 million to over £350 million – a testament to our differentiated approach and relentless pursuit of excellence.

With a presence across the UK, US, EU, and South Africa, and a client base spanning industries and geographies, we’ve welcomed seven boutique firms into the Group. This has broadened our capabilities across creative, digital marketing, data and AI, procurement, transformation, and more.

Our vision of becoming a services unicorn is firmly within reach – and this is just the beginning. We’re looking for exceptional talent to join us on this exciting growth journey and shape the future of consulting.

This role will be based in Cape Town:

Our Cape Town office is close to the city’s creative and tech hubs. It’s a special place to us because it’s where our Founder and CEO, Stephen Newton, is from.

Main function of the role

The role of the Paid Social and Display Specialist is to research, plan and implement strategies for effective paid media campaigns. This may include the set up and ongoing hands-on management of paid media campaigns across paid social and programmatic display, attending customer meetings and formulating marketing strategies to meet the clients’ objectives.

Main duties:

The daily management of client paid media marketing:

• Set up and manage paid media campaigns for a range of clients across Meta and LinkedIn as well as a range of programmatic display platforms, DSPs (training for display can be provided).

• Monitor campaigns, optimising where necessary and produce weekly/monthly reports.

• Define account strategy and plan campaigns to meet client objectives.

• Creating A/B tests and tracking them through to outcome.

• Tagging of websites and landing pages for tracking and event conversions with various tools (Meta Pixel, GA, GTM, etc).

• Provide advice and guidance to the client to maximise the return on investment.

• Delivering ad hoc training and support client sessions.

Internal activities for the wider team:

• Work with the Digital Manager to develop the paid media offering, set and meet standards for work quality, and deliverables.

• Help develop reporting methodologies to improve visibility and insight for clients.

• Continually look at ways to improve your client satisfaction, communication, quality assurance and customer retention.

• Research latest trends and relay to others.

• Analysis of industry issues and make recommendations based on this analysis.

• Educate sales team to ensure high levels of product awareness and understanding.

• Assist in the creation of sales collateral and attending new business pitches.

• Evaluate new marketing technologies, techniques and partners.

• Maintain personal organisation to achieve at least the company stated minimum utilisation.

Skills & competence required:

2+ years’ demonstrable experience of developing and managing successful campaigns across paid social media platforms including Meta & LinkedIn (essential)

Demonstrable experience of developing and managing successful campaigns across wider social media platforms – e.g. TikTok, Reddit, X, Snap, etc (preferred)

Solid understanding of the social landscape and role it plays in digital marketing (essential)

Experience of running multi market campaigns across EMEA or global (preferred)

Experience of implementing and using paid social tracking tools (Meta pixel, etc), Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager – (essential)

Experience of successfully setting up and running display media campaigns, especially within programmatic (preferred)

Strong communication and liaison skills – both written and verbal (essential)

Well organised self-starter with exceptional attention to detail – (essential)

High literacy, numeracy and accuracy skills – (essential)

Good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook – (essential)

Experience designing social and/or display assets – for example, using Canva (preferred)