US Digital Marketing Lead

Riviera Travel; Burton upon Trent; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Riviera Travel seeks a highly skilled US Digital Marketing Lead to own the digital marketing plan across Paid Search, Programmatic, and Paid Social channels for its North America business. The role involves budget management, channel execution, and performance delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

The successful candidate will collaborate with a global marketing team while focusing on driving digital marketing performance and growth.

This position offers a hybrid working model with 2-3 days per week in Burton on Trent.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of growth through digital marketing in an e-commerce setting.
• Experience managing significant budgets.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative team player.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the digital media budget for paid search, programmatic and paid social.
• Oversee end-to-end management of campaigns.
• Develop dashboards and reporting frameworks to monitor performance.

Skills

Digital marketing growth strategy

Performance marketing

Google Ads

Microsoft Ads

Meta

Programmatic DSP platforms

Data analytics

Strong communication skills

Budget management

Tools

GA4

Looker

Job description

Role Purpose:

Riviera has a fantastic opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated US Digital Marketing Lead to own the delivery of the digital marketing plan across the Paid Search, Programmatic and Paid Social channels for its North America business.

The Digital Marketing Lead will be responsible for delivering and optimizing the digital marketing plan across paid search, programmatic and paid social channels. The role owns budget management, channel execution, performance delivery and testing ensuring all activity is aligned to our North American business objectives.

The individual in this role should have a strong day to day trading and growth mindset to supercharge the performance of two of our main customer acquisition channels.

The team sits as part of the wider global Marketing department based in Burton on Trent. The team will receive a strategic steer for US growth from the US senior leadership but benefit from being sat as part of a broader global marketing department. The team reports into the Global Head of Digital & Ecommerce and will collaborate with the global digital leads to develop their digital marketing strategies and optimise activity according to best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

Budget ownership and campaign spend management

• Lead and manage the digital media budget for paid search, programmatic and paid social channels, ensuring efficient allocation across channels.
• Forecast spend, revenue and performance outcomes with high accuracy.
• Monitor pacing of optimise spend in real time to maximise ROI.
• Create and provide regular performance reports for management information and decision making.

Campaign execution and optimisation

• Lead hands‑on end‑to‑end management of the paid search, paid social and programmatic campaigns.
• Oversee account structure, bidding strategies, audience segmentation and creative testing.
• Implement A/B testing frameworks and continuous optimisation processes.
• Ensure tracking implementation and accuracy across platforms (GA4, conversion APIs, tagging).
• Implement effective retargeting campaigns to drive performance and create good customer journeys.
• Utilise data lists effectively to build targeting options for products and customer profiles.

Performance analysis and reporting

• Develop dashboards and reporting frameworks to monitor performance.
• Deliver actionable insights to senior leadership to inform decisions.
• Analyse multi‑channel attribution and incremental CPAs to recommend and inform investment decisions.
• Use known data feeds to structure targeting, creative approaches and budget allocation.

Partner and stakeholder management

• Work closely with the Paid Search Lead and Paid Social Lead to align on strategy and best practice across channels, and use shared learnings to optimise performance.
• Manage relationships with media agencies, DSP partners and tech vendors (e.g. Google).
• Provide high quality creative briefs to external agencies and internal teams where appropriate.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Brand, Product, Data, Finance and Creative teams.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and advertising standards.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Proven track record of growth through digital marketing in an e‑commerce setting.
• Growth mindset focused on winning the day and striving to drive better performance.
• Deep expertise in performance marketing and analytics, specifically hands‑on experience with:
  • Google Ads
  • Microsoft Ads
  • Meta
  • Programmatic DSP platforms (e.g. DV 360)
  • Strong understanding of attribution models and analytics dashboards (GA4, Looker)
• Experience managing significant budgets.
• Experience with bid strategies, audience targeting and automation tools.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative team player.
• Experience in the Travel sector desirable but not essential.

We operate hybrid working, with 2-3 days per week in Burton on Trent.