AYKO is on the lookout for the next Paid Media superstar!
Status
Open
Location
Leeds Head Office
Team
Marketing
Available Openings
1 (out of 1)
Posted
6 January 2025
Closing
28 February 2025
Location: Leeds / hybrid (one day per week in the office)
Job Type: Full-time
We’re looking for a Senior Paid Media Manager with strong PPC skills who can help us grow our agency
With this role, we’re looking for someone who wants to build their own team of paid media specialists with support from our Digital Marketing Director. This role is working towards a Head of Paid Media role, we’re not expecting you to know everything about running a department but someone with a strong paid media background who’s looking to accelerate their career with the right support. We’re looking for someone who knows their way around Google ads and understands PPC and is ambitious and wants to build a team.
As a key part of the Digital Marketing team, you’ll be the lead for our paid media services. You’ll work with a portfolio of existing clients as well as build our portfolio and grow our revenue opportunities.
At AYKO we create and market high-quality e-commerce websites for well-known brands and we’re growing at a great pace thanks to our great reputation! We’re looking to scale our paid media offering. This role will be key to this, working alongside our Digital Marketing Director, you’ll have the freedom to use your expertise to shape up our strategy as your ambitions and our clients demand.
A Senior Paid Media Manager will:
* Lead the Creation and Execution of Paid Media strategy: This is a hands-on role and you’ll need to be able to design and deliver a paid media strategy with a particular focus on PPC and implementation for our clients and potential clients. Working with clients to ensure that they meet their goals and targets with knowledgeable advice and expertise.
* Budget Management: We’re looking for someone with strong attention to detail who is comfortable with numbers and managing clients’ budgets independently.
* Revenue generation: You’ll be responsible for maximising the opportunities for our existing Paid Media clients, ensuring that we deliver great value for their budgets and that we make recommendations for their strategy that will provide mutual benefit.
* Building the Paid Media portfolio: You’ll look for opportunities both internally and externally to pro-actively grow our Paid Media portfolio, to ensure that it continues to be an area of opportunity for our agency. This will include support with new business forecasts and client pitches.
* Account Management: Providing outstanding account management for Paid Media - tracking, monitoring, and analysing activity and results to demonstrate impact and return on investment for our clients and assist our Account Management team in the broader relationships they have with clients including client calls and meetings.
* Supplier management: Be the point of contact with key suppliers including Google and Microsoft to understand the latest product developments, BETAS, and drive client performance forwards.
* Thought Leadership: Acting as our AYKO thought leader in this space - working with other members of the team to share knowledge and improve their understanding. Acting as a thought leader externally to build the AYKO brand and awareness.
* Mentoring and management: With this role, we’re looking to develop a team and are looking for someone with the skills to train and develop a future team of paid media experts and someone who is a real leader.
* Process management: We’re looking for someone who can improve the efficiency of our current service and can improve and build upon our current approach.
Our ideal candidate will have:
* Agency experience, or an agency background - having managed a portfolio of multiple clients - building confident, commercial relationships across a number of different brands
* Strong organisational skills. We’re looking for a self-starter who can manage their own time independently with support from the Digital Marketing Director.
* Commercially driven. We’re looking for people with strong business acumen with a proven track record of developing paid media accounts.
* Years of experience isn’t as important as knowledge for this role - but it’s likely that you will have spent at least 2 years in a PPC or paid media role previously
* You’ll have an interest and knowledge in broader digital marketing and enjoy working as part of a multi-discipline team. Wider paid media experience is desirable although the main focus of this role will be on PPC.
* You’ll be ambitious to build a large team and be confident in your leadership skills
Here’s what you’ll get in return:
* Salary of £40,000 - £45,000 DOE
* 22 days holiday + bank holidays
* Extra days holiday for each year worked (uncapped)
* Company pension scheme
* A clear progression plan with regular appraisals and training sessions
* A clear pathway to help build something exciting
* Training and development budget to undertake third party training and certifications
* Hybrid working
* Presents on your Birthday, Christmas, work anniversaries and big life events
* Social events
* Quarterly surprise gift boxes
* Technology salary sacrifice scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee referral programme
* Wellbeing and health scheme with Simply Health
* Employee wellbeing and culture at the forefront - great office environment!
If you want to be part of the AYKO team and believe that you are the right person for the role, apply and have a chat with us to really understand what life’s like here at AYKO and how it is going to change yours. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Equal Opportunities…
At AYKO, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation.
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