Salary: 40000 per annum
Location: Manchester & Lichfield (Flexible Hybrid Working)
Benefits: Private Health Cover 24 Days Holiday Bank Holidays Employee of the Quarter Awards
This is your opportunity to define strategy drive real commercial impact and lead a talented team at one of the most forward-thinking marketing agencies around. If youre a paid media expert whos ready to step into a leadership role - or already there and looking for somewhere that truly values your expertise - we want to hear from you.
Youll take the reins on paid media strategy across a portfolio of exciting clients making the big calls on where investment goes how channels work together and what opportunities we should be seizing next. This isnt a role where youre executing someone elses plan - youre the one building it.
Day to day youll be:
Owning paid media strategy end-to-end - from defining the approach and frameworks to ensuring everything ladders up to your clients commercial goals
Leading and mentoring a small team helping them grow their skills build confidence and operate across multiple paid media channels
Making smart budget decisions based on commercial priorities marginal returns and growth opportunities youll know where every pound is working hardest
Integrating paid media into wider cross-channel strategy using your insight to shape the bigger marketing picture
Introducing new opportunities and driving innovation across the discipline including harnessing AI tools and workflows to work smarter and deliver better results
Building strong senior client relationships identifying growth opportunities and playing a key role in new business pitches and proposals
Communicating strategy clearly and persuasively to senior clients and internal stakeholders youll be the person in the room who brings clarity and confidence
Have deep hands-on expertise across paid media channels (PPC paid social and beyond)
Are a natural leader who gets genuine satisfaction from developing people around you
Think commercially - you understand the link between media investment and business outcomes
Love solving complex problems and making confident decisions under pressure
Can hold a room with senior clients and inspire confidence at every level
Are excited by AI and how it can transform the way teams work and deliver
Want to be somewhere that recognises and rewards great work (hello Employee of the Quarter! )
40000 per annum
24 days holiday increasing to plus bank holidays - plus the ability to purchase 5 more days.
Private health cover
Flexible hybrid working
Offices in both Manchester & Lichfield
Employee of the Quarter Awards
The opportunity to lead and grow your own small team
With offices in Manchester and Lichfield and a genuinely flexible hybrid working model youll get the best of both worlds - brilliant collaboration with your team when it counts and the freedom to do your best work wherever that happens to be.
If youre ready to lead innovate and make a real impact on clients businesses - wed love to talk.
Apply now and tell us why youre the person to lead our Paid Media team.
Were committed to building an inclusive team and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
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