Job description
Job Role: Marketing and Advertising Performance Manager
Location: Guildford
Salary: £50,000 (may be flexible for the right candidate)
Flexibility: Flexible working – Hybrid working; 2 x days a week at home, 3 x days a week in the office
Future Focus Recruitment Ltd is currently recruiting for a Senior PPC Manager/ Performance Manager for one of its leading clients in Guildford
Key Skills:
· Creating, developing and implementing effective long and short-term paid search strategies with excellent ROAS for our clients.
· Managing PPC/Paid Social budgets while strengthening platform accounts and key client relationships.
· Running and optimising multiple PPC/Paid Social campaigns simultaneously.
· Overseeing campaigns across several platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Social Media Ads, Bing).
· Targeting selected groups through keyword and audience research.
· Managing and editing campaign budgets and adjusting bids to optimise ROAS.
· Tracking daily, weekly and monthly KPIs to identify opportunities for improvement or more efficient spending.
· Reporting KPIs to management regularly via various dashboards.
· Producing engaging, clear and concise copy for campaigns.
· Ensuring campaigns are aligned across multiple channels, avoiding wasted spend or crossover.
· Reducing the risk of click fraud and irrelevant spending.
· Staying up-to-date with PPC/Paid Social/SEM trends and techniques and applying them where relevant.
What You Will Do:
- Manage a portfolio of our client's paid media campaigns, working across an exciting and diverse range of platforms, including paid search, display and video.
- Work with the Account Manager and digital team to develop strategies for your accounts.
- Ensuring best practice approaches are adopted throughout your work for consistent, high-quality output.
- Act as a point of contact and escalation for all the assigned accounts within your team
- Work with clients to set campaign KPIs and ensure performance is monitored closely against client goals and contractual requirements.
- Develop and maintain close and productive client relationships, as well as have the ability to identify new business opportunities from existing clients.
- Develop a strong insight into each client's campaign(s) and provide well-informed, strategic and timely advice to clients and internal departments to continually optimise activity.
- Create and provide campaign performance reports and ensure they are shared and communicated well to the client.
- Be comfortable reporting any potential issues or concerns with management if you believe escalation may be required.
- Liaise with clients as and when required.
- Work with other senior members on forecasts and proposals.
- Keep up to date with the latest changes in the paid landscape and ensure these are communicated internally.
- Development of client strategies and discovery sessions.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
· Minimum 4 years’ experience (PPC/Paid Social) as a PPC Manager or Digital Marketing Specialist with Google Ads certification
· Experience with multiple platforms, e.g. AdWords, Facebook Ads, Bing.
· You'll need strong analytical and numeracy skills and be confident translating large amounts of data into easily understandable or visual reports.
· Expertise in using and manipulating paid search dashboards to optimise spending.
· Confidence using Google Analytics or similar tools.
· Excellent verbal and written communication and Experience presenting reports and optimisations.
Desirable Qualifications:
· Facebook Blueprint Certification
· Microsoft Ads Certification
· Any other relevant digital marketing qualifications
Benefits:
· Working alongside a team of highly experienced director-level marketing experts.
· Flexible working – Hybrid working; 2 x days a week at home, 3 x days a week
in-office. We are more than happy to consider and support requests for flexible working hours, for example, to support parents/carers.
· Casual dress
· Annual pay review
· Flexible early finish on Friday afternoons
· 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. Weekday birthday leave & office closure for Christmas (annual leave entitlement does not need to be used for this period)
· Government Workplace Pension
· Dog-friendly office environment
· Regular staff training and full career and self-development programme, including annual team training budget
· Regular team building days and quarterly large company events
· Regular team lunches and social activities
· Long service perks and incentives
· On-site parking
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Up to £50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Guildford: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- developing client strategies: 4 years (required)
- Google AdWords: 4 years (preferred)
- Social media marketing: 4 years (required)
- PPC: 4 years (required)
- Agency Side: 4 years (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Google Ads Certification (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Guildford