Paid Media Strategist II – APAC

DFMA Donaldson Filtration Malaysia Sdn Bhd; Malaysia; Remote; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Donaldson Filtration Malaysia Sdn Bhd is seeking a Regional Paid Media Manager to drive paid search and paid social campaigns across APAC. You will own end-to-end strategy, planning, execution, and optimization across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn, Meta, and other platforms, tailoring approaches to regional audiences and launches.

You will translate data into clear narratives for marketing and sales leadership, build robust reporting, and collaborate with regional teams to maximize

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience managing paid search and paid social campaigns.
• Deep platform expertise in Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn Campaign Manager and Meta Ads Manager.
• Proven ability to manage significant media budgets and deliver against pipeline and revenue KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the regional paid media strategy across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, and OpenAI ads.
• Monitor campaign performance daily, adjusting bids, budgets, targeting, and creative to meet KPIs.
• Build full-funnel campaigns from awareness to lead generation and conversion.
• Lead audience strategy including segmentation, targeting, and retargeting across platforms.
• Design and run A/B tests on creative, copy, bidding strategies, and landing pages to improve performance.
• Partner with regional marketing, sales, and product teams to align campaigns with launches and market-specific needs.
• Establish reporting frameworks and deliver performance insights to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Paid search

Paid social

Google Ads

Microsoft Advertising

LinkedIn Campaign Manager

Meta Ads Manager

Budget management

Data storytelling

Tools

Google Analytics 4

Looker Studio

Job description

Donaldson is committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. Together, we make cool things. As an established technology and innovation leader, we are continuously evolving to meet the filtration needs of our changing world. Join a culture of collaboration and innovation that matters and a chance to learn, effect change, and make meaningful contributions at work and in communities.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute the regional paid media strategy across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn, Meta, Reddit, and newer platforms such as OpenAI ads.
• Monitor campaign performance daily, adjusting bids, budgets, targeting, and creative to meet KPIs.
• Build full-funnel campaigns, from awareness to lead generation and conversion.
• Tailored to regional audiences and go-to-market priorities.
• Lead audience strategy including segmentation, targeting, and retargeting across platforms.
• Design and run A/B tests on creative, copy, bidding strategies, and landing pages to continuously improve performance.
• Partner with regional marketing, sales, and product teams to align campaigns with launches, seasonal initiatives, and market-specific needs.
• Help establish reporting frameworks and deliver regular performance insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Stay up to date on competitive activity, platform changes, new features, and paid media trends, and share relevant findings with the team.
• Share best practices and help build a consistent paid media framework across the global team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience managing paid search and paid social campaigns.
• Deep platform expertise in Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising, LinkedIn Campaign Manager and Meta Ads Manager.
• Proven ability to manage significant media budgets and deliver against pipeline and revenue KPIs.
• Ability to operate independently, set priorities, and drive projects forward in a global, complex organization.
• Excellent communication skills.
• You must be able to translate data into clear narratives for marketing and sales leadership.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in Google Analytics 4, Looker Studio, or similar reporting and analytics tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience planning and managing paid media for B2B industrial brands.
• Familiarity with regional digital marketing nuances, audience behaviors, and media landscapes across the APAC region, particularly countries such as Vietnam, India, and Malaysia.
• Familiarity with SEO tools such as SEMrush or Google Search Console, and the ability to use organic search data to inform paid campaign targeting and messaging.
• Familiarity with attribution modeling and multi‑touch measurement approaches.
• Comfort working with CRM and marketing automation data to inform campaign strategy.
• Experience working across multiple time zones and cultures in a global organization.

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Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents. The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand. Learn more at www.donaldson.com.