Senior Director, Paid Search & Growth

PHM; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401K

Parental and family care leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

PHM, a leading health media agency in the US, is seeking a Paid Search Director to lead a high-scale Search team, shape strategic vision, and drive client outcomes across channels. You will partner with executives, manage staffing and budgets, and elevate our approach with documentation and best practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with internal and vendor stakeholders, delivering POVs, and advancing the Search practice across the agency.

Qualifications

• Enterprise client management and account planning experience.
• Experience leading a team of 7+ people.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, with 10+ years of direct Search campaign management.
• Healthcare industry knowledge a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise-scale Search team, establishing overall strategic vision and driving tactical excellence, innovation and collaboration.
• Deeply understand client leadership stakeholders, priorities, and pain-points, proactively setting goals, sharing perspectives and approach-based solutions.
• Cultivate client leadership relationships both at the brand level and beyond, serving as a trusted advisor for ideation, escalation or action plan creation.
• Represent Search in broader client leadership conversations, actively contributing and/or leading communications.
• Create a culture of transparency, comradery, and accomplishment within their team, setting overarching objectives and celebrating accomplishments.
• Drive team process, financial accountability, training and best practice sharing.
• Establish and document client-level optimization, innovation and planning approaches, creating timelines, templates and scaled resources.
• Support career growth of those responsible for career growth of others, setting clear and consistent expectations by level across the team.
• Determine new ways to partner across Channels and integrate beyond Search.
• Represent capability in deliverable and fee scoping workstreams, advocating and rationalizing team's staffing needs and partnering across stakeholders to address
• Leader in establishing and documenting POVs and product updates, proactively identifying opportunities to up-level our approach
• Identify Practice-wide needs or gaps, lead workstreams and/or goal committees to evolve the Search Practice
• Develop top-to-top relationship with key vendor partners to ensure shared priorities and client-facing messaging are clear

Skills

Search tools & platforms

Search strategy & POVs

Digital media knowledge

Team leadership

Client relationship management

Vendor relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

POV documentation

Job description

PHM, a leading health media agency in the US, is seeking a Paid Search Director to lead a high-scale Search team, shape strategic vision, and drive client outcomes across channels. You will partner with executives, manage staffing and budgets, and elevate our approach with documentation and best practices.

The role emphasizes collaboration with internal and vendor stakeholders, delivering POVs, and advancing the Search practice across the agency.