Paid Media Manager – Delivery department

Are you a Paid Media expert looking for your next challenge? Do you love driving high-performance ad campaigns across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn? If so, we want to hear from you!

The perfect candidate has a proven track record of managing Paid Search and Paid Social campaigns, either in-house or agency side, helping businesses achieve more. Our team’s ability to communicate recommendations and speak our clients language is what sets us apart. The perfect candidate will be a great communicator to stakeholders at all levels.

Our Paid Media team works closely with the SEO, Content, CRO and Client services teams, to provide continuous support and strategic direction on client accounts. As part of the delivery team, you will be instrumental in providing the technical expertise that our clients love. You will make sure our clients’ businesses thrive, giving them confidence in our solutions-based approach.

What your day might look like

• Collaborating with our Relationship Managers, you will create data driven strategies that give our clients confidence in our solutions based approach
• Develop & execute Paid Search (Google Ads, Bing Ads) and Paid Social (Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, etc.) strategies
• Optimise campaign performance to meet and exceed clients marketing goals
• Track performance using Google Analytics, Looker Studio & platform dashboards
• Collaborate with the internal SEO and Content teams to maximise performance of campaigns and overall digital marketing performance of accounts
• Effectively communicate performance and account updates with our Relationship Managers so our clients are always up to date with the great results they are getting
• Continue your own professional development, learning from our in house team of technical experts and regular company wide training sessions to inspire you to do the best work of your career

Essential skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in Paid Search & Paid Social
• To take initiative being the Paid Media lead when handling client accounts
• Hands-on experience with Google Ads, Meta Ads, and LinkedIn Ads
• Strong analytical skills & ability to make data-driven decisions
• Experience with Google Ads, Google Analytics, and reporting tools
• Ability to manage budgets & bid strategies effectively
• Must share our values

Throughout your time with us, we will support you to:

• Never stop learning,
• Work in a collaborative environment with a strong support network,
• Have the freedom to do the best work of your career,
• Develop leadership skills,
• Improve your ability to walk into any company and create results,
• Grow personally and professionally.

What we offer

Learn from the best

Whether it’s from our internal team of experts in our weekly Bitesize sessions or well versed industry gurus at our Think with Footprint events, we strive to continuously provide great learning opportunities that help you do the best work of your career.

1% for the Planet and B Corporation

Be part of a company that commits to people and planet! Each year we put 1% of our annual sales to Building Malawi, a charitable organisation close to our hearts.

We give a sh*t

We listen and put feedback into practice and each year we get bigger and better as a result. Our policy is to be open, honest and fair in everything that we do.

We’re educators

We provide you with the opportunities to teach others about the topic you know oh so well. Thus far this includes our team giving TED Talks, presenting at the Universities of Essex and Greenwich, speaking at the Department of International Trade, Brighton SEO the list goes on!

Apprentice Challenges

6 times a year our friendships are put aside and an intense battle to become winner of the Footprint Digital Apprentice Challenge takes place. Anything from business strategy pitches, foraging in the woods to bake off challenges, your competitive streak is welcomed and encouraged.  (Previous events include clay pigeon shooting, boating, wine tasting, Crystal Maze, cookery courses, Tai Chi and firewalking)

Who we are

At Footprint Digital we humanise and demystify digital marketing for ambitious businesses, exceeding their expectations, because there are no limits to what they can achieve online. We set up Footprint Digital because we didn’t want to ‘keep clients quiet’. We wanted to do good work and to be the best we could be; to be proud of what we do and push ourselves to grow.

To apply, please send an email to careers@footprintdigital.co.uk with your CV in PDF attached, and an introductory paragraph which details your experience and wider interests including:

• Your strengths,
• Your interests (what you like to do outside of work),
• The great things you have achieved in your life so far and things you would like to achieve in the future (in work or your personal life).

Our hiring process is swift and decisive:

• You read this job description and apply via email (ideally with your CV).
• We reply to all applications within 3 days. If successful our Head of People, Charlotte, who will invite you to a 30 minute meet and greet call. This is so that you can get a feel for our company vision and values and ask us questions so that you can assess if we are the right fit for you.
• If that goes well you will then meet other members of our team including Michael, our Head of Paid Media and get to grips with the role and Footprint Digital.
• You will be invited to come see us in person, meet more of the team and see our offices. By this point the hiring decision is as good as made.
• You will receive a job offer and then begin your journey with us and be part of helping our clients achieve things they never thought possible!

We look forward to hearing from you.