Paid Search Account Manager
Application Deadline: 7 February 2025
Department: Paid Media
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: UK Remote
Description
If you have experience managing PPC client relationships, then this role is for you!
Great opportunity to join our team of Paid Media specialists and be responsible for the development, optimisation, and long-term vision of our key PPC accounts. You will deliver valuable performance for Paid Search clients against their objectives across a wide range of industry sectors. In return, we will develop your skills and experience in paid advertising (across PPC, Paid Social & Programmatic) further.
This is a key role in the PPC team that has come about due to client growth. You will work within a close-knit team supporting the Senior PPC Manager and Director in delivering performance-based strategies across key PPC accounts you are responsible for. Great opportunity for you to shape the development, success, and long-term performance of our key clients' Paid Search activity.
We are looking for an ambitious, technically focused, and driven individual to drive performance for clients that nobody else can! You will be an excellent client communicator who can hit the ground running. You are possibly already in a PPC executive role and looking for that next step up or have had 1-2 years experience within PPC running Google Ads, Microsoft, or Paid Social accounts.
We understand that our team are our greatest asset, so we invest heavily in training, benefits, and incentives to ensure our team are happy and productive.
Some of what you will do!
* Drive long-term performance in Paid Search and work with key stakeholders to ensure strategic initiatives are achieved.
* Create and improve Paid Search team processes, championing automation, systemisation, and standardisation throughout.
* Act as a key point of contact for Paid Search clients, able to engage with senior stakeholders and convey performance at multiple levels.
* Contribute to thought leadership, testing & innovation strategy in Paid Search.
* Maintain sufficient reports to communicate paid media performance with key stakeholders.
* Create and deliver client growth plans focusing on cross and upsell opportunities.
* Assist with new business pitches, developing bespoke content and presenting when required.
What will you need?
* Paid Search (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads) experience in a top-tier agency or client-side environment.
* Proven track record of defining & implementing strategy with large spend clients (+£1M) to drive positive ROI.
* Passionate and driven team player, who demonstrates and transfers to the team their enthusiasm for paid search.
* A highly motivated, flexible, and adaptable nature, with a commitment to high-quality output.
* Strong communicator, able to extract & explain insight from detailed reporting to peers & senior stakeholders.
* Outstanding analytical skills, with the ability to interpret test results & draw conclusions.
* Performance & analytically minded, able to make & justify decisions that improve client performance.
* A strong understanding of digital media and cross-channel integration (paid & organic).
* Exceptional levels of numeracy.
* Highly proficient in Excel and demonstrable ability to analyse complex data sets.
* Ability to create & implement client strategic development plans.
Some of what we offer!
* UK Remote First company with offices in Edinburgh and London (access to co-working office space across the UK for those who prefer office space to work from).
* Flexible working, extended core hours; we trust our team to own their time to balance work and life!
* 34 days holidays (including bank holidays), options to buy and sell up to 5 days per year to support flexibility.
* Trialling 9 day fortnight - we are committed to our team's well-being and having time to balance both work and life so we are currently trialling a 9 day fortnight. As part of this trial, our team gets every second Friday back to invest in themselves on completing their work with no change to pay or benefits (and we don't expect our team to work condensed hours to take this time).
* Home Office set up and budget to support you with this, ready to start on your first day.
* Your Development, we believe in continuously investing in your talent and offer training and development budget.
* Industry leading private medical cover and mental health hub.
* Enhanced Family Leave, we support our team to grow their career and to balance this with starting a family. We offer enhanced family leave policies such as enhanced maternity pay, 4 weeks paternity leave, fertility treatment leave, and enhanced shared parental leave.
* Silver healthy working lives employer - we support our team’s well-being both in and out of work.
* Quarterly team get together budget and socials.
What's next?
If this sounds like you and you are keen to find out more, please apply and answer the prescreen questions. On reviewing all applications, we will be in touch if we need to find out more.
Our process:
* Pre-screen - Finding out more about you and your experience, and telling you more about us and the role, is there an interest?
* 1st Stage - Detailed discussion on your experience, the role, and value add that you could bring!
* 2nd Stage - Task & In-depth discussion on role and opportunity for you to ask the questions to make sure we are right for you!
Location
Please note first 3 months we'd expect monthly visits in the Edinburgh shared office for initial training and support and to get up to speed. After this, there will be quarterly travel to our Edinburgh office.
QueryClick is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on any basis; all employment is decided on the basis of experience, merit, and business need. We believe we need diversity to be successful and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
If you are QC then please apply now - we look forward to receiving your application.
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