Senior Paid Media Manager.

About this role.

We’re looking for an experienced paid media manager to support our campaigns and team

Title: Senior Paid Media Manager
Hours: Full-time, Flexitime
Location: Hybrid home/office working policy (we are based in the Northern Quarter, Manchester)
Salary: £45,000 per annum, upto 7% annual salary increase each December after your first full year. Ad-hoc bonuses.
Holidays: 31 per year, plus one extra per year


As an experienced Paid Media Manager you’ll be managing the strategy and delivery of our clients paid media campaigns, across paid search, paid social and display. You'll be an expert at managing complex campaigns across multiple channels and territories, creating paid media strategies and supporting our team and clients.

You'll also be comfortable engaging with our clients and partners, and maintaining strong relationships with them. You'll enjoy working in a dynamic office environment, and you'll appreciate the benefits of being part of a close-knit, supportive team.

Main Roles and Responsibilities

• Managing a number of paid media campaigns, across multiple channels and territories and maximising the campaign performance
• Working closely with our senior marketing managers on their clients paid media strategies
• Staying on top of changes within the paid media landscape, and communicating market shifts internally and externally
• Supporting the reporting requirements of the team and our clients
• Monitoring our clients performance to find weaknesses and opportunities
• Being part of client meetings and helping build strong relationships
• Communicating with clients and partners on work in progress and results
• Being part of the pitching process for new clients

Key Skills

• 3 - 5 years paid media experience across multiple platforms, including Google Ads, Facebook (and Instagram), LinkedIn, Twitter
• Comfortable experimenting with new paid media platforms, and managing external programmatic providers
• Experience of managing high-spend campaigns, and equally maximising the performance of small spend campaigns
• Experience of running B2C and B2B campaigns
• Comfortable running multi-territory campaigns
• Very strong organisational and time management skills
• An attention to detail, and the ability to work independently
• Strong inter-personal skills and the desire to work within a tight-knit team
• Analytical mind-set with strong problem solving skills

Desirable Skills

• Certifications across relevant platforms (e.g. Google Ads)
• Experience with Google Analytics, Google Data Studio
• Experience with TikTok advertising
• Experience of creating budget and performance forecasts
• Experience of editing and adjusting the creative elements within a paid media campaign

What makes us different?

We want to get the best out of our team; we have a sensible hybrid-working and flexitime policy that allows you to be in an office when you want but work remotely when it's more sensible. We’re big on training and self-improvement, we have an annual salary increase scheme (up to 7% each year). We have social events, but we don’t enforce socialising. We respect our teams’ work-life balance.

For our clients, the big difference is our approach to strategy. We run discovery and strategy creation workshops, we create strategy playbooks that align with our client's goals then we adjust and optimise based on real-world data. Our campaigns perform better because we dig deep into our client's businesses and their customers, so we understand the buying cycle and our client's customers pain points.