Freelance Paid Social Manager | Independent Media Agency | 3 month contract
Location: Farringdon, London – hybrid
Day rate: £300-350 DoE
Start: ASAP – ideally Monday 26 October 2026, with an earlier start possible
Duration: At least 3 months, initially through to 22 January 2027
Working pattern: open to 4 or 5 days per week
Pivotal is exclusively partnering with an independent integrated media and creative agency to find an experienced Paid Social freelancer.
With a busy workload and annual leave across the team, they need someone who can get up to speed quickly and provide hands-on support across paid social planning, buying and campaign delivery.
The role
You’ll support activity across Meta and TikTok, including eCommerce and online retail campaigns. Your responsibilities will include:
- Planning, building, managing and optimising paid social campaigns.
- Delivering conversion and sales activity, including catalogue and Advantage+ ads.
- Creating product sets from product catalogues/feeds.
- Understanding how standard and custom web pixel events are set up and used within conversion campaigns.
- Monitoring live campaign budgets and pacing spend against plans.
- Analysing performance and providing actionable recommendations against media KPIs.
- Producing clear reporting and communicating effectively with the wider team.
- Managing competing priorities and meeting campaign deadlines.
About you
You’ll bring:
- Around 5–7+ years’ paid social experience, specifically within media agencies.
- Previous freelance experience across agencies, demonstrating your ability to integrate into new teams quickly.
- Strong hands-on planning and buying experience across Meta Ads and TikTok Ads.
- Experience working with eCommerce or online retail clients.
- Confidence with catalogue/feed activity, product sets, conversion campaigns and pixel events.
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong analytical, communication and organisational skills.
Experience with Pinterest, Snapchat and Prisma/MediaOcean would be beneficial, alongside confidence using pivot tables.
Working arrangements
The agency is open to freelancers working either 4 or 5 days per week. You must be comfortable attending the London office:
- 3 days per week if working 5 days.
- 2 days per week if working 4 days.
The agency closes between Christmas and New Year, but this contract requires one day of cover on either 29, 30 or 31 December.