Senior Manager, Paid Social

About this role

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities. Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience #LifeatRealChem. Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Manager, Paid Social to join our growing Biddable Media team.

The Senior Manager owns paid social strategy and execution for client projects of moderate scope with limited oversight. This person translates business objectives into effective channel approaches, solves complex activation challenges and develops compelling performance stories tied to client outcomes. This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, Lambertville, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

What you’ll do Translate client business goals, audience needs and campaign objectives into paid social channel strategies. Oversee tactical planning, forecasting, activation, optimization and analysis across assigned accounts. Develop test-and-learn initiatives that evolve account performance and expand paid social capabilities. Address complex performance concerns through audience, bidding, creative, placement or account-structure changes.

Supervise campaign launches, identify process gaps and improve practice documentation and workflows. Translate media metrics into meaningful business insights, recommendations and ROI narratives. Own or support recurring client updates and deliver clear presentations on performance, insights and next steps. Guide junior team members on strategy, delegate work appropriately and contribute to their development. Manage cross-functional relationships with Client Experience, Analytics, Strategy, Ad Operations, Creative and partner agencies.