Senior Paid Social Specialist, LinkedIn
Manpower SA (Pty) Ltd.
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Senior position
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South Africa
- Posted 02 Nov 2026 by Manpower SA (Pty) Ltd.
- Expires in 29 days
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Job 2646876 - Ref CPT003749
About the position
Our client is a global education group driven by a mission to develop conscious leaders. The group is seeking an experienced Senior Paid Social Specialist to take ownership of LinkedIn as a key performance marketing channel across its diverse portfolio of business units, with a particular focus on Corporate Education, executive programmes and B2B audiences.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact across an international, multi-brand environment. You will have the opportunity to shape LinkedIn paid media strategy, influence how the group engages with professional audiences and drive meaningful commercial outcomes through sophisticated targeting, campaign innovation and performance optimisation.
Key responsibilities
- Own LinkedIn strategy and campaign management.
- Build audience targeting by job title, industry and matched audiences, including account-based campaigns.
- Run lead generation forms integrated with the CRM.
- Write creative briefs and run creative testing.
- Manage budget pacing.
- Report performance and share insights with account owners.
- Provide secondary cover on Meta.
Requirements
- 5 to 8 years in paid social, including at least 3 years with heavy LinkedIn focus.
- B2B experience.
- Working knowledge of Meta.
- Strong analytics skills.
- LinkedIn Marketing Labs certifications are an advantage.
Ideal Candidate
- Agency experience and comfort wearing multiple hats are essential.
- Experience in higher education or ed-tech is an advantage.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Desired Skills:
- Lead generation
- Paid media analytics
- LinkedIn marketing
Manpower SA (Pty) Ltd.
About the agency
Manpower is the world's leader in employment and staffing services, with offices in over 80 different countries and territories providing individual service to 2.5 million employees world-wide.
Manpower can help your company anticipate and benefit from the changes happening now and next, in the contemporary world of work. Over 60 years of experience in staffing and recruitment, training, HR Services, outsourcing and consulting for all industries skills and levels.
Our focus is to meet your widest range of skill requirements. Our commitment is to continuous service improvement through development and technology.
We want you to know you will have the skills you need, today and in the future.
Our staffing solutions across various disciplines include:
Temporary / Contract and Project Staffing
Our propriety skill assessments enable us to confirm our people's software knowledge, practical abilities and quality attitude across the widest range of work profiles
Permanent Recruitment
Call Centre Staffing
Our proprietary teleskill assessment identifies the skills required for the widest range of inbound and outbound work, from basic helpdesk operations to telephone marketing and telesales.
Outsourcing Staffing Solutions
Manpower provides Wage Master as a customized solution to clients who have various staffing requirements. The client chooses the employees and determines their remuneration package.
Manpower then assumes employer responsibility for all HR issues and provides a payrolling service. Manpower can establish an office on your premises with a supervisor and staff to manage part or your entire workforce.
We continue to seek ways to further refine our system, to improve our level of response and to give you the highest quality possible. Our goal is not just to meet your expectations ... but to exceed them.
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