Paid Media Consultant

Propellernet; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and award-winning agency as a Paid Media Consultant, where your expertise in paid media will help drive client success. This role offers the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, allowing you to balance your time between our vibrant Brighton office and remote work. With a focus on continuous improvement and collaboration, you'll lead client accounts, optimize media strategies, and provide actionable insights. Enjoy a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusivity, along with generous perks like unlimited holiday and a 4.5-day working week. If you're passionate about making a difference in a progressive agency, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Unlimited holiday

4.5 day working week

Bupa Health Cash Plan

Paid development day each month

5% contributory pension

Monthly confidential coaching

Life insurance

£1k annual learning budget

Enhanced paternity leave

Enhanced maternity leave

Qualifications

• 3+ years in paid media, agency or client-side experience.
• Strong knowledge of search, shopping, and social channels.

Responsibilities

• Manage client accounts to meet objectives across multiple channels.
• Develop strategic direction for clients and optimize media performance.

Skills

Paid Media Expertise

Google Ads Certification

Google Analytics Certification

Client Communication

Strategic Thinking

Analytical Skills

Education

Relevant Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

Google Ads

Google Analytics

Job description

Would you like to join a multi-award-winning, B Corp Certified agency who have also been awarded top 15 Best Place to Work in the UK five years in a row? If the answer is yes, read on!

Our Media team are looking for a Paid Media Consultant to join their award-winning team. We offer flexible working, competitive salaries and unrivalled employee benefits.

Propellernet is a place where all people are celebrated and welcome, regardless of their age, disability, gender, lived experience, neurodiversity, race, religion, sexual orientation or social class.

About you:

• You have a comprehensive operational knowledge of search, shopping and social channels as a minimum.
• You have worked in paid media for at least 3 years, either agency or client side.
• You are a quick learner, and embrace new platforms, features and functionality where they deliver benefit to your clients.
• You are commercially savvy, and understand how media performance impacts wider business activity.
• You are a self-starter who takes proactive lead on your client’s activity.
• You are comfortable communicating paid media performance and recommendations to stakeholders of all seniorities and levels of understanding.
• Naturally curious, you’re always looking for ways to improve how we do things.
• Ideally, you have up to date Google Ads and Analytics certifications.

About the role:

• You have day to day responsibility for ensuring client accounts are meeting objectives across multiple channels.
• You own the performance of your clients’ media channels including account builds, expansion, optimisation and testing and reporting.
• With support from our Strategy team and insight tools, you will lead on developing the strategic direction for clients across multiple media channels, ensuring that activity is planned and executed in the most effective way.
• You will create, monitor and refresh forecasts for all your client activity.
• You will be client facing, owning and building the client relationship, day to day communication; providing incisive actionable insight through regular reporting, ad hoc client calls and face to face meetings.
• You will be comfortable presenting in meetings and calls.
• You will provide training/development opportunities to your colleagues, and support in the development of the whole team.
• You will work with our other service lines to share data and insights, building a holistic view across all owned marketing activity.
• You will support new business, auditing prospect’s activity and producing or presenting pitch material.
• You will pro-actively identify case study and award-worthy work, collaborating with the marketing team to write them up.

About Propellernet:

We’re a progressive, genuine and conscious business with three pillars of success: People, Profit and Planet.

In 2021 we became a certified B Corp, meaning we “meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose” and we re-certified in 2024.

We have an incredible culture with perks including (but not limited to!):

• Unlimited holiday.
• 4.5 day working week.
• Bupa Health Cash Plan.
• A paid day-off a month to focus on your own development.
• 5% contributory pension.
• Monthly confidential coaching.
• Life insurance.
• £1k per year dedicated to your Learning & Development for conference tickets, training courses, speaker events.
• Enhanced paternity leave (four weeks paid leave).
• Enhanced maternity leave (four months at 100% of salary, followed by five months at 50% of salary – eligible after 1 year of service).

…and don’t just take our word for it, we’ve come Top 20 in the Great Place To Work Awards or Campaign’s Best Workplaces every year for the past 10 years.

Location: Hybrid working with at least one day per week in our Brighton office.

Our working policy is ‘work where you do your best work’, whether that’s in our Brighton office, at your home, or somewhere else. Our office is set up with hot desks for anyone who chooses to work there.

You’d be expected to travel to client and team meetings from time to time. We’d ideally like you in the Brighton office at least one day per week, and we’d expect you to join your team at least once a month in the office for face-to-face training and team anchor days.

Salary: £35k+ (based on experience) plus annual bonus based on hitting company targets.

Start Date: Ideally March 2025.

How to apply:

Send your CV with a covering email outlining why you fit the bill to: [e-mail].

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process, to ensure it is fully accessible to you, please don’t hesitate to ask us.

Deadline: Friday 31st January.

Strictly no recruitment agencies – thanks!