Senior Paid Media Executive - jd

JD Group; Bury; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advertising firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Paid Media Executive to lead a team and manage campaigns across various platforms including Google and Facebook. The role requires expertise in Paid Media management and proven skills in analytics and communication. Competitive salary and benefits such as professional training and a friendly work environment are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company laptop

Professional Training and conferences

Relaxed, friendly working environment

Subsidised eatery

Quarterly social events

Staff discount

Monthly staff sales

Gym discount

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experience in managing sophisticated Paid Search/Paid Social campaigns.
• In depth knowledge of Paid Media from an implementation perspective.
• Facebook Blueprint Certified & Twitter Flight School desired.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Executives & Assistants in the Paid Media team.
• Manage and improve team workflows and processes.
• Oversee implementation, management, analytics, tracking, and reporting.

Skills

Paid Search

Paid Social

Google Analytics

Effective communication

Time management

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Google Docs

Job description

Role Description

As a Senior Paid Media Executive, you will lead, inspire, and develop Executives & Assistants in our market-leading in-house Paid Media team. You will help spearhead best-in-class Paid Media implementation across Paid Search, Paid Social & Digital Display. Your role will be to lead the strategy and account direction, predominantly working with our tier 1 partners such as Google, YouTube, Bing, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest as well as emerging platforms and opportunities. You will also manage key stakeholders across the business, as well as integrating with other parts of the Multi-Channel team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams.

Key Duties
• Demonstrate a strong understanding & showcase a practical ability of working with Paid Search and/or Paid Social platforms and concepts.
• Manage, own, and constantly find ways of improving the workflow of your team.
• Responsible for quality of all work output from your team. Regularly review team processes (reports, presentations, tools etc.) for efficiency.
• Complete internal audits across your accounts & continually evolve.
• Oversee the end to end Implementation including set-up, management, analytics, tracking, reporting of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.
• Be an expert in all relevant 3 rd party tools & technology.
• Build & maintain project plans outlining all key tasks for your accounts.
• Continually review & suggest changes to tactics based on current performance and impact on campaign goals & KPIs.
• Accurately forecast potential delivery for your accounts.
• Help develop the Paid Media department by being innovative and sharing knowledge and processes.
• Develop a close working relationship with external suppliers such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc. Professional Skills
• Ability to identify issues and be pro-active in providing solutions.
• A high degree of numeracy and literacy.
• Ability to work under pressure across a high level of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.
• Highly literate in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Office365, Google Docs.
• Effective communication skills.
• Effective presentation skills.
• Effective time management skills with the ability to multi-task.
• A high attention to detail.

Experiences
• Experience in managing sophisticated Paid Search/Paid Social campaigns.
• In depth knowledge of Paid Media, from an implementation perspective.
• Google Shopping, Facebook DPA, Retargeting experience.
• Google Analytics experience.
• An appreciation of the Paid Media ecosystem (i.e. how Paid Search influences Paid Social).
• Facebook Blueprint Certified & Twitter Flight School desired.
• Google Ads Certified desired.
• Second language an advantage.

Benefits
• Competitive salary.
• Company laptop.
• Professional Training and conferences.
• Relaxed, friendly working environment.
• Subsidised eatery.
• Quarterly social events.
• Staff discount.
• Monthly staff sales.
• Gym discount.
• Free parking.