London Paid Search Manager
We are looking for a talented and experienced Paid Search Manager to join us at Realtime Agency – a fast-growing performance and brand marketing agency. Reporting to our Head of Search, you will be working on some of our key accounts, where you’ll be responsible for building and implementing state-of-the-art paid search strategies.
You will Be Awesome at designing and executing innovative search campaigns, with strong analytical skills and proven experience delivering results that exceed client expectations. You will need to be curious and not afraid to push the boundaries while thinking of the big picture; someone who can deep dive into the details through proactivity, eagerness, and self-motivation. You will Dream Big – continually investigating new opportunities and tactics, ensuring fresh thinking is brought to the table, creating bespoke strategies for your client, and identifying solutions to meet their needs so you can take them to new levels of growth beyond their expectations.
You will Proceed with Purpose. As a key point of contact with our clients, you will need to confidently showcase your knowledge and expertise to develop a collaborative partnership with our key stakeholders. You will Be Big Hearted as a Paid Search Manager – you will demonstrate kindness, integrity, and respect for your clients and your colleagues; taking pride in your work, and collaborating in a kind and respectful way with others.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the planning, execution, optimization, and reporting of large-scale paid search campaigns across multiple platforms, targeting client KPIs.
- Manage client communications across key accounts, and effectively present the current campaign performance and strategic vision at regular client meetings.
- Drive new ideas to improve the performance of campaigns including (but not limited to) account structure, bid strategy, creative, ad copy, keyword expansion, audience management, and landing page optimization.
- Work closely with the reporting team to drive data-backed innovation and strategy.
- Collaborate closely with other channel teams (such as social and programmatic teams) to create unified, best-in-class, cross-channel campaigns.
- Maintain bulletproof organisation of client spend, budgets, naming conventions, and account structure.
- Stay at the forefront of industry innovation and best practices, learn and grow your knowledge, and bring new findings and ideas to clients and internal teams.
You’re the right person for the role if you have:
- 3+ years of paid search advertising experience (agency experience preferable).
- Degree in business, maths, marketing, engineering, science or similar.
- Proven track record of success with search advertising campaigns.
- Mobile experience is beneficial.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple accounts and projects simultaneously to meet objectives/key deadlines.
- Experience with website and lead analytics (such as UTM tagging, Google Analytics,).
- Ad platform certifications.
- Outstanding data handling and analytical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Well-organised and flexible; able to move from project to project without delay.
- A passion for Digital Marketing and learning!
Introducing Realtime
We’re Realtime Agency. We might not be widely known – but our impact is felt everywhere we go.
As an independent challenger agency – going hand-to-hand with the largest agencies in the world – we bring that challenger mindset to a marketplace of same old, same old advertising companies. Our work with some of the biggest brands in the world doesn’t come from following suit; we blaze our own trail.
Realtime Agency is a global, full-funnel advertising agency that specialises in a unique, performance-led approach to campaign strategy not seen elsewhere in the field. We help businesses transform their digital buying processes through innovative – and, often, first-to-market – methods that have put both our clients and us on the map.
Clients in verticals from consumer tech to financial services to lifestyle brands and everything in between, Realtime has turned dozens of major brands into believers of a different approach to their media strategy.
It is this innovative mindset that led Digiday to name Realtime Agency a finalist for Agency of the Year in 2023. Realtime Agency is based in London, England, with U.S. offices in Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C.
What does RTA offer?
- People First Culture; in the last year we increased our staff happiness by 20%, we have a culture coordinator, team events, learning opportunities and training, company mid-year kick-off, individual awards, Class Pass, and much more.
- Private medical insurance.
- 25 days holiday - excluding bank holidays!
- A birthday lie-in.
- Working abroad three weeks a year!
- Growth company; we are positioned well in the market as leaders in ‘the privacy age’.
- We're a global company with international work and travel opportunities.
- Digital learning opportunities – programmatic, Google, Influencer, SEO, Affiliate marketing to truly understand the full marketing mix, allowing you to go on and excel as a fully rounded digital leader.
- Be in the mix of industry change and trends – learn how we have pivoted into the privacy age and our plans for moving into the next wave of web3.0 and Metaverse.
- Fast progression routes as the company continues to rapidly grow.
- An excellent bonus scheme!
- A fun, friendly working environment!