Paid Search Senior Executive

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Paid Search Executive to join their dynamic team in Edinburgh. This permanent role offers an exciting opportunity to lead the management of paid search campaigns, ensuring top-notch delivery and client satisfaction. You will coach and mentor junior team members while collaborating with internal teams and clients to drive performance. This innovative firm values diversity and inclusion, providing a supportive environment where you can thrive. With a competitive salary and a tailored benefits package, this role is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in the digital marketing landscape.

Benefits

Company-provided Medical Healthcare

Generous Pension provisions

Health and Wellness benefits

Life Assurance

Diverse teams with real impact

Exciting and rewarding environment

Varied work across industries

Qualifications

• Experience in managing paid search campaigns in an agency or client-facing environment.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement paid search strategies aligned with client goals.
• Manage day-to-day operations of paid search campaigns and monitor performance.

Skills

Paid Search Campaign Management

Google Ads

Microsoft Ads

SA360

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Job description

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Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

Dentsu International is a global leader that specialises in Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Retention to enable clients to keep “winning” whilst ensuring customer growth and experience is at the very forefront for their business.

We’re hiring a Senior Paid Search Executive as part of our team based from our Edinburgh office.

Purpose of the Role

As a Senior Paid Search Executive, your role will be to ensure best in class delivery across the team’s portfolio of clients, working both closely with your manager and the rest of your team. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of your Paid Search campaigns as well as supporting, coaching and mentoring junior team members to produce work to the highest of standards, in line with agency values.

Success will be measured through meeting and exceeding client targets both in terms of results as well as maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction. Account quality will be measured through internal audit scores. You will also produce case studies to showcase your work and help the agency demonstrate excellence.

Key Responsibilities

1. Assist in the development and implementation of paid search strategies aligned with client goals and objectives.
2. Execute day-to-day management of paid search campaigns, including campaign setup, optimisation, monitoring, and reporting.
3. Monitor campaign performance metrics and KPIs, providing regular reports and insights to internal teams and clients.
4. Support the Paid Search Manager in client communication, campaign planning, and strategic recommendations/optimisations, adhering to Dentsu’s QA policies and procedures.
5. Collaborate with clients, internal planning teams and platform reps to drive best in class performance.

Key Skills

1. Experience managing and planning paid search campaigns, preferably in an agency or client-facing environment.
2. Proficiency in managing and planning campaigns across Google Ads and Microsoft Ads, with experience on SA360 or international search engines a bonus.
3. Strong understanding of paid search principles and best practices.
4. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, draw insights, and make data-driven decisions.
5. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with clients and internal teams.

What we offer

This is a permanent role. The team is based from our Edinburgh office on a hybrid working basis. As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs which includes:

1. Company-provided Medical Healthcare.
2. Generous Pension provisions.
3. Health and Wellness benefits.
4. Life Assurance.
5. Working in diverse teams where you can make a real impact.
6. Exciting and rewarding environment.
7. Varied work across industries.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.