Performance Marketing Manager - Bristol
We're looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to lead paid media across all three Loungers brands - Lounges, Cosy Club and Brightside. You'll take ownership of our paid strategy, daily optimisation and reporting, and build a best-in-class approach to acquisition and conversion across a 300-site estate.
This is a hands-on role for someone who knows how to use smart targeting, great creative and solid funnel maths to drive growth. This is a hybrid role based in our Bristol HQ 4 days a week and 1 day working from home.
Key Responsibilities
Paid Media Strategy & Execution
- Lead paid activity across Meta, TikTok, Google (Search, YouTube, Display) and other key platforms.
- Build full-funnel campaigns using See-Think-Do principles.
- Develop geo-targeted and site-specific media plans at scale.
- Optimise daily across keywords, audiences, bids and creative.
- Manage paid amplification for influencer and creator content.
Campaign Management, Planning & Experimentation
- Run structured tests across creative, targeting, formats and landing journeys.
- Analyse competitor activity to identify opportunities and risks.
- Balance paid and organic traffic intelligently, ensuring we don't pay for demand already captured via SEO, CRM or local discovery.
- Build long-term planning cycles while developing short-term "flywheels" to stay agile and reactive.
- Use automation to scale localised, site-level campaigns efficiently.
Social Analytics & Audience Insight (Sprout Social)
- Use Sprout Social to understand audience behaviour, content performance and engagement trends across all brands.
- Identify the themes, formats and posting rhythms that drive impact, and feed these insights into paid creative and targeting strategies.
- Monitor competitor activity in Sprout to strengthen our local and national positioning.
- Provide simple, regular summaries that guide content development, paid optimisation and campaign planning.
Data, Reporting, Analytics & Attribution
- Build and maintain performance dashboards (GA4, Looker Studio, platform APIs).
- Regularly interrogate data from Google Analytics, Search Console, Sprout Social, paid platforms and internal systems.
- Use funnel maths to forecast, budget and set clear performance expectations.
- Produce weekly and monthly reporting with direct, actionable insight.
- Work across teams to measure bookings, footfall, WiFi sign-ins and revenue contribution.
Platform & Tech Integration
- Work with Airship on segmentation, suppression lists and audience sharing.
- Integrate media activity with ResDiary to improve conversion and cost-per-booking.
- Ensure paid supports - and doesn't cannibalise - organic discovery and CRM performance.
- Learn and leverage the wider MarTech stack (Zonal, OrderBee, Wireless Social, Toggle).
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with brand, creative, community and CRM teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
- Brief and refine creative assets based on analytics and platform learnings.
- Support influencer and creator partnerships with paid amplification strategies.
- Collaborate with the Head of Digital on forecasting, budgeting and planning.
What success looks like
- Clear uplift in ROI, CPA / CPB, bookings and footfall.
- Paid spend deployed intelligently, complementing organic channels.
- Automation in place to scale consistent, localised campaigns.
- Strong testing discipline and clear reporting cadences.
- Social analytics meaningfully shaping targeting, creative and brand strategy.
- A measurable improvement in digital acquisition across all three brands.
What we're looking for
Essential
- Experience running paid campaigns across Meta, TikTok and Google.
- Strong skills in analytics and data interrogation, especially Sprout Social, GA4 and Search Console.
- Ability to translate audience insight into creative and targeting decisions.
- Confident working with data daily and simplifying insights for stakeholders.
- Ability to build geo-targeted and site-specific strategies.
- Strong understanding of funnel maths, attribution and optimisation.
- Curious, commercial and comfortable working at pace.
Nice to have
- Experience in hospitality, retail or multi-site environments.
- Familiarity with Airship, ResDiary, Zonal or similar systems.
- Experience boosting creator content or running performance-led influencer activity.
- Understanding of SEO, CRM and local discovery.
What's in it for you?
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Up to 10% bonus
- A culture that appreciates ideas and celebrates individuality
- Founder-led business - we might have 230 sites, but we still maintain an entrepreneurial spirit through everything we do
- 50% off food at all Lounges, Cosy Clubs and Brightsides
- Pension contribution
- 24 / 7 mental health support
- Amazing events including LoungeFest - our annual company festival - Christmas parties and more
- We want to work with nice people so if you want to work hard, have fun and be part of the Loungers ride, we'd love to have you.