Paid Search Manager
Gordon Yates Recruitment Consultancy
Are you looking to accelerate your skills in a small and nimble paid media agency? Looking for an agency that supports your working style and career goals? Do you love seeing clients’ businesses grow as a result of your hard work? Do you think about a business success beyond the Paid Search platforms? Do you love translating Paid Search insights into actionable business insights, or to use them to spark creative concepts? Are you excited about the changes in Paid Search? Have you stopped using phrase match?
If you do, then you might be a good fit for our Paid Search Manager role…
Key Responsibilities:
Day-to-day activity will vary depending on the requirements of our clients, but will include:
- Take end-to-end ownership of clients’ PPC accounts. You’ll manage the account strategy, optimisations, test schedules, identify growth opportunities and work to quickly and positively resolve any performance issues
- Work closely with The Paid Social & Creative team
- Plan, build and activate best-in-class PPC campaigns that align with our clients’ wider paid media strategies
- Work towards specific ROI objectives for each client, maintaining an awareness of their overall commercial goals
- Carry out day-to-day monitoring of budgets and performance across Evergreen’s client portfolio
- Collate activity and performance reports for both internal and client stakeholders
- Develop a solid relationship with our clients through regular communication, calls and meetings
- Actively manage task lists with multiple priorities and stakeholders
About the client:
They are a paid media and creative agency based in Oxfordshire. They have been helping a wide variety of businesses in the home and garden sectors to increase enquiries, leads and sales since 2013. They have an exceptional team of talented individuals and are looking to add more enthusiastic and skilled people to the organisation.
They have a portfolio of SME, retail and consumer businesses primarily in the home and garden sector. Variety guaranteed!
They’re based in a beautifully converted old school house between Bicester and Buckingham, so this role will be ideal for anyone living within a commutable distance in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire or Gloucestershire.
We are looking for someone who enjoys coming into the office to really help the whole agency run smoothly, work closely with colleagues and bond with the team. We offer an office/WFH split of 2 days in office/3 days WFH.
About You:
You’ll be confident, analytical and a natural communicator with a passion for all things PPC.
First and foremost, organisation and attention to detail are essential, along with an ability to stay calm under pressure in a fast-paced agency environment.
The right person for this role and our agency ideally has/is:
- 6+ years’ experience working in a dedicated PPC role.
- You’ll be highly proficient in Google Ads, YouTube & Microsoft Ads with proven experience managing PPC campaigns for clients across a range of sectors. If you have experience on other platforms such as Reddit, this is desirable but not essential.
- Strong knowledge of Google Ad scripts.
- Experienced in using Google Ads Editor to build and optimise campaigns.
- Able to demonstrate commercial awareness with a deep understanding of how paid media fits into a wider marketing strategy to achieve a client’s commercial objectives.
- Hands-on experience using the wider Google ecosystem, including; Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console, Google Merchant Center, and Google Analytics 4.
- Experience using Shopify and implementing product feed optimisations would be advantageous. As would Klaviyo and other CRM systems for first party data audience segmentation.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Strong time management with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a busy agency environment.
- Excellent writing and proofreading skills with attention to detail are essential.
- Experience working in an agency environment is desirable but not essential.
- Work for the ‘European Paid Media Agency of the Year 2025’.
- A stunning Oxfordshire countryside office in an old school house.
- 23 days holiday + birthday off + additional holiday for tenure.
- Regular team socials and events.
- Clear career growth paths.
- Learning resources and personal development plans.
- Free snacks, drinks, and nearby free parking.
- Company pension contributions.
NB: Applications will be passed directly to the client for review.
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