Senior Performance Manager

Think Differently Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ThinkDifferently.ie is seeking a performance advertising lead in Dublin to drive revenue through agency and direct relationships. The role blends new business development with hands-on campaign delivery, including setup, trafficking, and optimization across display, native, and video formats.

You will work with commercial and product teams to test and launch new performance products, report on campaign results, and translate feedback into actionable ideas for growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in digital advertising and online publishing.
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with clients, agencies and peers.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to extract insights from performance data.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial and delivery activities to grow revenue and ensure campaign success.
• Set up and traffic digital campaigns, manage assets and meet timelines.
• Collaborate with operations, test new performance products, and report results.
• Translate client feedback into product ideas and support inventory forecasting.
• Champion product adoption and spot expansion opportunities within relationships.
• Troubleshoot delivery and performance issues to optimise campaigns.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Digital advertising

Relationship building

Analytics

Google Ad Manager

Google Analytics

Communication

Prioritisation

Job description

Our client, a major player in Irish digital publishing with a portfolio of well known consumer sites, is growing out their performance advertising offering and needs someone to help lead that charge. Half sales, half delivery, this role sits at the point where new business and campaign execution meet.

You'll split your time between winning revenue through agency and direct sales relationships, and making sure the campaigns already live are running well and delivering for clients. There's also real scope to shape what comes next: testing and building new performance products alongside the commercial and product teams. Reports to Head of Performance.

The commercial side

• A particular focus on motoring, alongside other strategic sectors
• Growing and maintaining relationships with key accounts, agencies, and industry contacts
• Hitting revenue targets through pipeline management and closing new business
• Feeding market and client insight back into the business
• Championing product adoption across existing accounts and the broader market
• Spotting expansion opportunities within current relationships and beyond

The delivery side

• Chasing down and fixing delivery, performance, or technical problems as they come up
• Setting up and trafficking digital campaigns, keeping everything on spec and on time
• Working alongside Ad Operations on assets and production needs
• Watching over display, native, and video performance across the campaign lifecycle
• Optimising live campaigns to get the best outcome for clients

Reporting and product

• Helping test, refine, and launch new performance products
• Pulling together regular reporting on campaign and partnership performance
• Managing third party reporting and pixel setup for first party insight
• Translating client feedback and campaign learnings into product ideas
• Forecasting inventory and supporting operational planning

What you'll bring

• A troubleshooter's instinct for resolving delivery and performance issues
• Solid grounding in online publishing and digital advertising
• Confidence building relationships with clients, agencies, and industry peers
• Strong analytical ability, comfortable pulling insight from performance data
• Familiarity with Google Ad Manager and Google Analytics
• Clear written and verbal communication
• The ability to juggle competing priorities in a fast moving, deadline heavy environment

Salary DOE but do reach out to discuss as transparency is important to us

At ThinkDifferently.ie we are an equal opportunity agency. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic origin or disability status.