Paid Media Manager (Temp/Freelance)

Our client, an innovative full-service agency, is looking for a paid media advertising specialist to work on a temporary / freelance basis across a range of coveted large high street brand clients. This role will play a pivotal part in the digital team, working with clients’ paid media strategies on Google platforms, Meta Platforms, LinkedIn and TikTok. The ideal candidate will lead on delivering full-funnel strategies that focus on customer behaviour, increasing awareness among the target audiences, and help drive traffic and/or sales.

Experience and expertise in paid media strategy, campaign planning, execution and data & insights are a must. Clients are B2C also B2B and B2B2C, so knowledge of tactics suited to top-of-funnel awareness vs demand-gen is important. You’ll need to be confident in working at speed with major global brands, have experience in handling large budgets, and uphold an exceptional level of client service.

• Competitive salary
• Temp / Freelance role to support current projects
• Full-time, Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:30pm
• Flexible hybrid working pattern
• Free on-site parking

Key responsibilities:

• Leading paid media campaigns for clients, across multiple channels and working to varied full-funnel objectives. This would be end-to-end from conception and strategy through to objective definition, execution, user journey definition, tracking and reporting
• Produce campaign and creative ideas that drive performance and deliver ROAS
• Test and optimise channels, audiences, bidding strategies, creative and copy
• Stay on top of campaign and market trends, perform competitor analysis and develop campaign insights
• Continuous optimisation of campaigns, feeding back on what these are, delivering insight to the client
• Being the spearhead of paid media across the company and educating on best practice, keeping up-to-date with the latest trends and releases for major platforms
• Working closely with Head of Digital to unlock business with current clients and acquire new clients
• Works towards building healthy relationships with key paid media platforms

Skills and qualifications

• Extensive experience in paid social media (ideally agency, with additional in-house a plus)
• Strong working knowledge of the major paid media advertising platforms from Google Stack, Meta, LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok
• Well-versed in Mar-tech from a tagging, tracking and pixel point of view for paid media platforms
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills, both creating and delivering
• Strong analytical and strategic campaign planning skills with the ability to articulate insights clearly
• Understanding of best practice in paid social media across multiple paid media platforms as well as Google Search
• Data-driven with a methodical approach
• Experience working with both small and large budgets
• Ability to manage time and resources effectively