PPC Account Executive

Sphere Digital Recruitment; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphere Digital Recruitment is supporting a leading digital media agency in Cape Town to hire a Paid Media Executive. The role offers a hybrid work model with two days in the office and three remote, and focuses on campaign management, optimisation, reporting and client communication.

The ideal candidate has about 6 months hands-on paid media experience, solid numerical skills and a proactive, collaborative mindset to grow into ownership of campaigns and client relationships.

Qualifications

• Around 6 months or more of hands-on paid media experience.
• Experience building, managing or optimising digital advertising campaigns.
• Good understanding of paid media principles and campaign metrics.
• Strong analytical skills with an interest in understanding campaign performance.
• Comfortable working with data, reporting and performance insights.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch paid media campaigns across relevant digital platforms
• Monitor campaign performance and carry out regular optimisations
• Analyse campaign trends, fluctuations and performance issues
• Make recommendations and implement changes to improve results
• Manage campaign budgets and monitor spend against agreed targets
• Support the management of smaller client accounts
• Provide clear and insightful campaign performance updates
• Translate campaign data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Respond to client requests in a professional and timely manner
• Create and maintain basic automated reporting dashboards
• Suggest new campaign tests, creatives, strategies and platform features
• Stay up to date with digital media trends and platform developments
• Identify opportunities to improve campaign performance and efficiency through automation
• Contribute ideas, learnings and best practices to the wider team
• Manage workload effectively and ensure tasks are delivered accurately and on time

Skills

Paid media experience

Campaign management

Campaign analytics

Data reporting

Attention to detail

Communication

Team collaboration

Job description

Paid Media Executive

Location: Cape Town
Working Model: Hybrid, 2 days in office and 3 days remote
Department: Digital Media

About the Role

We are recruiting on behalf of a leading digital media agency looking for a Paid Media Executive to join their Cape Town team.
This is a great opportunity for someone early in their paid media career who already has some hands-on campaign experience and is looking to develop their skills across campaign management, optimisation, reporting and client communication.
The successful candidate will support the management and optimisation of paid media campaigns, analyse performance and help ensure campaigns deliver against client goals and budgets. As they develop, they will also have the opportunity to take greater ownership of smaller accounts and client relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and launch paid media campaigns across relevant digital platforms
• Monitor campaign performance and carry out regular optimisations
• Analyse campaign trends, fluctuations and performance issues
• Make recommendations and implement changes to improve results
• Manage campaign budgets and monitor spend against agreed targets
• Support the management of smaller client accounts
• Provide clear and insightful campaign performance updates
• Translate campaign data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Respond to client requests in a professional and timely manner
• Create and maintain basic automated reporting dashboards
• Suggest new campaign tests, creatives, strategies and platform features
• Stay up to date with digital media trends and platform developments
• Identify opportunities to improve campaign performance and efficiency through automation
• Contribute ideas, learnings and best practices to the wider team
• Manage workload effectively and ensure tasks are delivered accurately and on time

Skills & Experience

• Around 6 months or more of hands‑on paid media experience
• Experience building, managing or optimising digital advertising campaigns
• Good understanding of paid media principles and campaign metrics
• Strong analytical skills with an interest in understanding campaign performance
• Comfortable working with data, reporting and performance insights
• Good numerical skills and attention to detail
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Clear and professional communication skills
• Proactive approach to learning and problem solving
• Ability to work effectively within a collaborative team environment

Advantageous Experience

• Previous experience within a digital media, performance marketing or advertising agency
• Exposure to client communication or account management
• Experience working with campaign reporting dashboards
• Knowledge of automation within paid media
• Exposure to multiple paid media platforms or channels

The Ideal Candidate

This role would suit someone who has gained their first hands‑on experience in paid media and is now looking for the next step in their career.
You will be curious, analytical and eager to develop your technical campaign skills while gradually taking on more responsibility across client communication, account performance and strategy.

Sphere is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of ethnic origin, race, religious beliefs, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation, and any other protected status as required by applicable law.

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