Senior Performance Media Manager

Media Performance; Slaithwaite; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Job summary

Media Performance in the UK is seeking a Senior Performance Media Manager to lead paid search and paid social for major client accounts. You will translate objectives into campaigns, manage budgets, and optimise performance while ensuring accurate conversion tracking.

You will work with our senior team, use GA4/GTM for tracking, and drive data-driven recommendations that impact client outcomes and ROI. This role is primarily office-based in Slaithwaite.

Qualifications

• Proven agency experience managing paid media campaigns.
• Strong ability to set up and interpret GA4 and Tag Manager data.
• Commercial mindset focused on client outcomes and ROI.

Responsibilities

• Own paid search and paid social activity across key client accounts.
• Turn objectives into campaign plans, budgets and tests.
• Build, manage and optimise campaigns daily while tracking performance and spend.
• Set up and troubleshoot conversion tracking in GA4, GTM and ad platforms.
• Analyse data to identify drivers of leads and sales and make clear recommendations.
• Create and present reports and dashboards to clients; collaborate with offline media teams.
• Explore new platforms/automation ideas to improve efficiency.

Skills

Paid media management

Analytical mindset

Commercial awareness

Client communication

Self-motivated

Strategic thinking

Tools

GA4

Google Tag Manager

Google Ads

Meta Ads

Job description

Senior Performance Media Manager - Media Performance

Location:

Slaithwaite (mainly office-based)

Ready to take the lead on paid media for some of our biggest clients?

Media Performance is looking for a hands-on, commercially minded Senior Performance Media Manager

to take ownership of paid search and paid social across some of our largest client accounts. You'll turn strategy into results: planning, building and optimising campaigns across digital ad platforms, including Google Ads and Meta Ads, making sure the tracking behind them is accurate, and turning the data into recommendations our clients act on. This is a role for someone who enjoys owning their accounts end to end, working directly with our senior team and seeing the difference their work makes to each client's commercial objectives.

About us:

We're an integrated growth and marketing partner, working with ambitious brands to drive real commercial outcomes across performance, brand and strategy. Established in 2010, we've built a loyal and diverse client base over the years. Several of our clients and colleagues have been with us for more than ten years. We’re proud of those relationships, and the agency we’ve built around them.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning the paid search and paid social activity across a portfolio of key client accounts.
• Turning client objectives into campaign plans, budgets and a clear set of tests.
• Building, managing and optimising campaigns day to day, keeping performance and spend on track.
• Setting up, checking and troubleshooting conversion tracking in GA4, Google Tag Manager and the ad platforms.
• Digging into campaign, website and client data to find what's driving leads and sales, and turning it into clear recommendations.
• Building and maintaining reports and dashboards, and presenting results to clients with confidence.
• Working alongside colleagues in offline media, so digital works as part of the wider media plan.
• Bringing new ideas to the table, from testing new platforms and formats to using automation and AI to work smarter.

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience managing paid media within an agency (Paid Media Manager, Performance Media Manager, Senior PPC or Paid Social Manager, or equivalent).
• Strong hands-on expertise in Google Ads and Meta Ads, with a track record of improving results for clients.
• Confidence with GA4 and Google Tag Manager: you can set up, test and troubleshoot conversion tracking yourself.
• An analytical mind: comfortable pulling data together, spotting what matters and explaining it simply.
• Commercial awareness: you measure success in client outcomes and return on investment.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the confidence to take ownership of a problem and see it through.
• Clear, confident client communication, in meetings and in writing.
• Bonus points for Merchant Center and Shopping feeds, enhanced conversions or offline conversion imports, Meta Conversions API, server-side tagging, or SQL/BigQuery.
• Competitive salary of £50,000–£60,000, depending on experience.
• Ownership of some of our most important client accounts, with the freedom to make decisions on them.
• Work directly with our senior leadership team, with no layers in between.
• Access to our in-house tracking, reporting and dashboard tools, and the chance to help shape how we use them.
• Integrated work across digital and offline media, so you see how the whole plan fits together.
• A genuinely stable culture with client and staff retention rates most agencies would envy.
• Flexible hours built around real life, not just the 9-to-5.
• Room to grow with the agency as our digital offering expands.

Where you'll be based:

Our office is in Slaithwaite, a picturesque village with a genuinely great quality of life. Think independent cafés, canal-side walks, and none of the stress of a city commute. We're right next to the train station, with journey times of just 30–40 minutes into both Leeds and Manchester, so you get the best of both worlds: easy access to the big-city action when you need it, and a calm, welcoming village setting to actually work in day to day. Free parking is abundant, so no daily scramble (or expense) for a space.

This role is mainly office-based, working alongside the team day to day.

This is a chance to take ownership of paid media across some of our biggest accounts, backed by a senior team and the tools to do it properly.