Paid Search Executive

TrunkBBI; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative and performance marketing agency in Manchester is seeking a Paid Search Executive to join their expanding Performance team. The ideal candidate will implement and manage paid search strategies using Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, contributing to client success and agency growth. This role offers a fast-paced environment focused on development and autonomy, along with benefits such as hybrid working and health insurance.

Benefits

24 days holiday plus 3 days over Christmas

Private health insurance

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Monthly agency socials

Qualifications

• Experience in paid search for 6 months or more.
• Desire to excel in paid search and continuous learning.
• Holding Google Ads certifications is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Implement paid search strategies across various accounts.
• Manage and optimise client paid search campaigns.
• Work directly with clients to communicate performance results.

Skills

Paid search expertise

Excellent verbal communication

Excellent written communication

Tools

Google Ads

Microsoft Ads

Job description

Paid Search Executive

We're expanding our Performance team and looking for an ambitious Paid Search Executive to join us at Trunk.

This role is perfect for somebody who is looking to accelerate their career within paid search and who wants to join a fast‑paced environment that will enable your continued development. Working on client accounts that span across a range of sectors, you'll play a key role in implementing paid search strategies and managing the ongoing optimisation of accounts to deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Purpose of the role

Reporting to a Paid Search Manager, you will be a key hire in the building out and development of the paid search team at Trunk. You'll work with the team and the wider Performance department to deliver exceptional results for our clients and enable our continued and sustained growth of the agency.

What you will do

Campaign Excellence & Optimisation

• Implement paid search strategies across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads accounts, ensuring we deliver results aligned to our clients' objectives.
• Manage and optimise client paid search campaigns, including tracking budgets and progress against KPIs.
• Deliver on key responsibilities with a high degree of autonomy.

Commercial Awareness & Client Success

• Work directly with your clients to ensure they understand how paid search performance can deliver business performance.
• Support on client accounts and understand your clients' businesses and how paid search can help deliver against their business objectives.
• Provide commentary to client paid search reports.

Data, Tracking & Evolution

• Work with our data and analytics team to ensure paid search tracking is implemented and results are being reported correctly.
• Maintain knowledge of the latest paid search industry trends.
• Demonstrate a love of learning and help others do the same.

Requirements

Essential Experience

• You want to live and breathe paid search and never settle for ordinary.
• You have been working in paid search for 6 months or more.
• You will ideally have experience working with Google & Microsoft Ads.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable

• Holding Google Ads certifications would be an added bonus.

Your rewards

Alongside a competitive salary, you will receive:

• 24 days holiday plus 3 days over Christmas.
• An additional day of holiday for each year of service, up to a total of 5 extra days.
• The option to buy an extra week's holiday per year.
• 0.5-day life balance day each month to do whatever you want (excludes December)
• Early finish on a Friday.
• Private health insurance which covers pre‑existing conditions, cancer care and gives cashback for routine optical and dental treatments.
• Life assurance.
• Pension scheme.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• A £1,000 payment for referring a new hire.

And we offer:

• Hybrid working and flexibility.
• Access to a personal trainer/nutritionist.
• Free fruit and breakfast in the Manchester office.
• Mental health support and access to professional therapists through Spill'.
• Peer feedback and performance reviews tailored personal development plans and objectives.
• Access to industry-accredited professional qualifications through our IPA membership.
• Employee voice, we consult our people on matters affecting them and encourage participation in agency surveys, our suggestions box and employee awards.
• A social buddy upon joining who helps you settle into the agency.
• Monthly agency socials and events put on by our culture committee.
• Lunch & Learn events to gain more understanding of different facets of agency life.
• All supported by a culture driven by great work, team collaboration, passion, honesty, and mutual respect for everyone.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We had always thought our business was open and inclusive. Afterall, one of our values is Everyone matters. We hammer home the behaviour of treating everyone with respect, seeing things from the other person's perspective, understanding that everyone has different values, responsibilities, concerns and families.

But when you delve a little deeper into Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, this value is a great place to start but it involves so much more.

Here at Trunk, we naturally welcome difference. It's what gives us strength as a business, the wide breadth of experience, capabilities, and perspectives. And any creative business knows that the best ideas don't come from just one place. Diversity is important, but we feel what makes the real difference is inclusivity, or the act of helping people feel valued and enabled regardless of their differences.

We have really then only just begun our diversity and inclusivity journey. We started by ensuring everyone has mandatory training to help people understand what it means to be inclusive. We've set up a panel of people within the business to champion difference, and we have ambassadors who are gaining their IPA D, E & I certifications. We continue to learn and evolve, and realise that this is not a quick win, or a one and done.

We are adapting our practices, offering home working, flexibility around start times, offer monthly life-balance days, access to mental health professionals, and assessing our working spaces to accommodate brilliant neurodivergent minds. And will continue to evolve to enable the differences around us.

About Trunk

Trunk is the Creative & Performance marketing agency. Unique in our approach and our desire to do things differently, we build client teams that combine the best of abilities across creative disciplines and performance channels, our belief in our approach ensures we produce brilliant results for our clients.

Want to join us?

If you want to join our talented team, please respond to this ad and attach your CV.