Paid Search Account Manager

ZENITH; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing agency in London seeks a motivated individual to manage and optimize digital marketing campaigns. The candidate will work independently, lead a team, and implement performance strategies using Google Ads and similar platforms. Excellent analytical skills and a strong understanding of campaign metrics are essential. This role comes with extensive benefits and opportunities for growth in a dynamic workplace.

Benefits

Pension

Private Medical

Income Protection Plans

Work Your World opportunity

Reflection Days

Help@Hand benefits

Family friendly policies

Flexible working arrangements

Local discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Apple Search Ads is a bonus.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills are required.
• Strong communication skills and client servicing experience are essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure campaigns meet or exceed targets and look for optimization opportunities.
• Implement large scale search and performance campaigns accurately.
• Stay updated with product suite and provide client support.
• Ensure strict adherence to financial and quality assurance processes.
• Manage a Paid Search Senior Executive to ensure team growth.

Skills

Google Ads

Microsoft Ads

Apple Search Ads

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Client servicing experience

Job description

Company description

In March 2023, Publicis Media won the Adobe business for Europe, APAC, and Japan. We have established the Adobe.pub team to act as a seamless extension of the Adobe marketing team. Adobe.pub sits within the Zenith Global team and benefits from the opportunity, infrastructure and culture of one of the best international agencies in London.

The EMEA team, which has 70 members spread across London and India, covers all EMEA activity, from establishing strategy to media planning, activating media across digital channels, and reporting on campaign results. We handle both performance and upper funnel activity and are dedicated to creating full-funnel strategies to maximise Adobe’s digital engagement.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that fostering an inclusive culture where all talent can thrive makes our company stronger and helps drive invention in the work we do for our clients better. We also believe it enables a greater idea exchange that fuels innovation and best reflects diverse consumer experiences.

We are committed to encouraging our talent to participate in Publicis Groupe’s wide variety of talent engagement and inclusion programming, which includes professional development experiences and participation in the company’s many business resource groups. These include VivaWomen!, Égalité, MOCA (Men Of Colour Alliance) and more than a dozen others that are thriving across our network.

Through advocacy, education and inclusion we foster greater collaboration among our people, which in turn inspires work that provides better experiences for our clients and their consumers.

Overview

In March 2023, Publicis Media won the Adobe business for Europe, APAC, and Japan. We have established the Adobe.pub team to act as a seamless extension of the Adobe marketing team. Adobe.pub sits within the Zenith Global team and benefits from the opportunity, infrastructure and culture of one of the best international agencies in London.

The EMEA team, which has 70 members spread across London and India, covers all EMEA activity, from establishing strategy to media planning, activating media across digital channels, and reporting on campaign results. We handle both performance and upper funnel activity and are dedicated to creating full-funnel strategies to maximise Adobe’s digital engagement.

This is an opportunity to work with one of the world’s finest global technology firms in a freshly formed team dedicated to delivering the greatest digital marketing in the world. It is an interesting, dynamic, and diverse workplace in which to manage significant budgets and learn from the top practitioners.

We are looking for someone who can come in and immediately make an impact. This person should exude confidence and be able to motivate, educate and aid the development of other members of the team. Whilst the successful candidate will be well supported, it is expected that they should be able to ‘hit the ground running’, and for the most part be able to manage their workload autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Campaign Optimisation & Reporting: Ensure that campaigns meet or exceed targets and proactively look for opportunities to advance campaign optimisation via test and learn. Responsible for producing campaign performance reports including analysing data to provide actionable insights.
• Campaign Implementation & Technical Expertise: Ability to accurately implement large scale search, shopping, performance max, and app campaigns on search platforms. Understands the basic principles, processes and systems available to maximize campaign performance and efficiency.
• Product Knowledge: Familiar with the product suite across paid search platforms and able to confidently answer most client questions. Keeps up to date with industry and agency developments, and proactively looks for opportunities to feed into campaign optimisation.
• Operational Excellence: Through strict adherence to the financial, taxonomy and quality assurance processes, ensures quality and accuracy of team output and keeps campaign pacing and spending on track. Responsible for ensuring best practices are always adhered to.
• Team: Manage one Paid Search Senior Executive, leading by example and setting clear progression plans to ensure team growth.

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Apple Search Ads (bonus).
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills and client servicing experience.

Additional information

Adobe.Pub has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• REFLECTION DAYS - Two additional days of paid leave to step away from your usual day-to-day work and create time to focus on your well-being and self-care.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING, BANK HOLIDAY SWAP & BIRTHDAY DAY OFF You are entitled to an additional day off for your birthday, from your first day of employment.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with employees being office-based on Mondays and two other days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).