Advertising and Paid Media jobs and careers
A career in Advertising and Paid Media is all about strategic internet advertising. A Paid Media Specialist is responsible for planning and optimising the effectiveness of a paid campaigns. The term PPC is often related to Google Ads or Bing Ads, and advertisers will pay a fee each time their advert is clicked. A specialist in PPC uses their marketing expertise in order to maximise results by getting potential consumers to click-through and convert.
You’ll naturally be abreast of the search sector and the opportunities opening up within the market that will enhance the agency's or your business' offering. Outside of pure PPC, you may also be getting involved in paid social campaigns, programmatic, display or retargeting. This largely depends on the business’ strategy, or the goals of your clients if you are agency side.
Why consider a career in Paid Media?
If you’re a strategic thinker that loves helping businesses grow and forming technical campaigns (from writing enticing copy for adverts to pushing the campaign live and monitoring the success), a career in paid media / paid search is creative, analytical and systematic. There are a range of paths you can go down, including agency where you could be managing various campaigns for different clients, or you could be based in-house with one focus - growing the business of one brand through effective online paid strategies.
What a career or job in Paid Media may entail…
This career path can take you down a variety of different routes. Your role may blend more with digital marketing or you could specialise in PPC alone.
As a PPC Executive, you'll manage paid search campaigns on channels such as Google and Bing and social media. Part of your role is to create, optimise, report and to delve into the data and related analytics, to discover what is driving performance.
As a PPC Digital Account Executive, you may be part of an agency team, this role would involve managing various accounts for a wide range of clients. You'll specialise in paid search, biddable media, programmatic and display. You’ll be instrumental in supporting the success of client accounts, ensuring successful digital marketing strategies for your clients. You’ll be comfortable working across commercial, analytical, communication and hands-on PPC based tasks.
As a PPC Specialist, you’ll provide day-to-day management and optimisation of paid search campaigns – to enhance performance in line with ROI targets. Daily PPC optimisations will include, query reports, budget/bid management, ad copy changes and keyword expansions. Competitor research will be key in staying several steps ahead of the competition. You’ll play part in the wider marketing team, ensuring a unified message is portrayed.
As a Paid Social Specialist, you’ll manage campaigns on platforms such as Twitter, Linkedin, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. The principles are similar to PPC, in you will create, manage and optimise campaigns. Analysis of analytical data will give you insight into customer behaviour and allow you to edit your overarching strategy.
As a Programmatic Account Manager, you’ll oversee the automated process of buying and selling ad inventory. This occurs in real-time and allows you to bid across mobile, display, video and social channels. The process makes use of artificial intelligence technologies and demand site platforms to facilitate the process.
Typical role titles include
PPC Specialist
PPC Executive
PPC Assistant
Paid Search Manager
PPC Account Executive
Head of PPC
Head of Paid Search
Paid Social Executive
Paid Social Manager
Programmatic Account Manager
Career progression example
PPC Assistant
PPC Executive
PPC Manager
Head of Paid Search
Salary Benchmarks
At an entry level, Junior/Graduate PPC Consultants on average will be earning between £18k-20k. At mid-level, you’d be looking to earn £25k-35k and seniors would be looking to earn £50k+.
Is it right for me? The skills it takes...
You should be naturally analytical with great organisational skills, along with the ability to communicate your ideas well and explain them technically.
What qualifications does it take?
You may hold a degree or diploma within a relevant subject such as IT, marketing or mathematics. There are other options to get your foot in the door, such as apprenticeships, online courses and on-the-job training.
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• Highly established, reputable brand within the Financial Services industry. • Dynamic, fast-paced environment. • Flexible working. This leading FS business is seeking a Senior SEO Marketing Executive to support them with their transition of moving their performance marketing channels from agency to in-house, with a particular focus on technical SEO capability. What you’ll be doing As the Senior Marketing Executive, you will support the in-housing strategy and play a pivotal role in implementing relevant supporting platforms. Working closely with the Performance Marketing Team, you will be instrumental in helping to support them with the migration of all the current technical organic search activity over from agency to in-house. This means you will be leading the training and development of the current digital team members to ensure they can work seamlessly alongside you and confidently manage all aspects of SEO internally. Utilising your excellent communication skills, you will also liaise with agencies as well as the in-house team. Further to this, you will also need to be comfortable with analysing data to investigate trends, insights, and opportunities. What experience you’ll need to apply • Extensive experience in general performance marketing, either within an internal team or agency. • A very good technical understanding of web technologies -HTML, schema markup, CSS, JavaScript and search engine algorithms. • Excellent understanding of crawlability, website hierarchy, information architecture, site speed, schemas, mobile optimisation, and XML sitemap configuration. • Demonstratable experience of SEO technical tools – BrightEdge, Search Metrics, AH Ref, DeepCrawl, Screaming Frog etc. • Strong project delivery skills. • Strong experience across performance marketing channels – paid search, paid social, display, video and email (highly desirable). • Highly analytical and data driven. • Excellent attention to detail and communication skills. • Excellent influential and relationship building skills. • Established knowledge of Financial Services – e.g. Insurance, Legal and regulatory codes of practice and working within a regulated environment. What you’ll get in return for your experience A competitive salary of £35-40k is on offer, alongside flexible working. You will also be able to work part-remotely even when the pandemic is over, with the option to work in either Croydon or Bournemouth. Please enquire for more information. What's next? Send through your CV and get in touch with Alice for more information. -
Fast Paced & Dynamic Working Environment. Flexible Home/Office Working Policies. Competitive Salary & Benefits. I’m now working with a fantastic B2B business in Swindon as they look to hire their next Senior Digital Marketing Manager. This is a fast paced and campaign led environment, where you will manage internal and external agencies to deliver multichannel digital lead generation campaigns and look to optimise and improve results all the time. What you’ll be doing You will ultimately drive digital performance for key products within the business, defining and owning the paid and owned media strategy. You will focus on lead generation, conversions, analyse revenue vs spend, and track key metrics across all campaign performance. You will run large scale PPC campaigns across Google and Bing, managing both an internal and external agency on a daily basis to ensure results are on track. You will lead on paid social, with social lead generation and engagement through key platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and retargeting networks. You will also contribute towards the SEO strategy, create and optimise landing pages, A/B test, look at UX and CRO, as well as managing the affiliate and programmatic marketing strategy. Analytics and performance tracking using tools such as Google Analytics, Tableau, SEM Rush and Salesforce will prove invaluable as you dive in to the data to understand trends, performance, and look at ways to improve results. You will not be building the campaigns yourself, but will be managing resources to conceptualise, execute, manage, monitor, optimise, improve and report on successes. What experience you’ll need Proven digital marketing expertise, ideally within a B2B environment Multichannel acquisition and retention campaign experience Ability to drive visitors, click through, convert and maximise sales Experience with large scale PPC campaigns In depth knowledge of SEO, SEM and Social Media to improve sales performance Results driven and KPI focused Highly data driven, always looking to improvements Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills Strong numeracy and analytical ability Great problem solver What you’ll get in return for your talents This is a fast paced environment, and you will be rewarded with a competitive salary (£50k-£60k), great company benefits, and a flexible working environment where you are only expected to attend the office a couple of times a week. What next If you have proven digital marketing skills, especially around lead generation and driving traffic and conversions, then apply now or contact Chris for more information.
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• Highly established, reputable brand within the Financial Services industry. • Dynamic, fast-paced environment. • Flexible working. This leading FS business is seeking a PPC Marketing Executive to support them with their transition of moving their performance marketing channels from agency to in-house, with a particular focus on Paid Social and Paid Search. What you’ll be doing As the Marketing Executive, you will support the in-housing strategy and play a pivotal role in moving all the Paid Search and Paid Social to create an in- house team. Working closely with the Senior Marketing PPC Executive to execute the migration plan, you will liaise with the current agencies and team members to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible. You will be instrumental in leading and training the current digital team members to ensure they can work seamlessly alongside you to manage campaigns internally. What experience you’ll need to apply • Relevant professional experience in supporting the migration of paid search & paid social from agency to in-house. • Demonstratable experience of Google and Bing Marketing Platforms. • Extensive experience of management and implementation of social campaigns across Facebook and Instagram. • Experience across all performance marketing channels – organic search, display, video and email are advantageous. • Excellent attention to detail and communication skills. • Excellent influential and relationship building skills. • Established knowledge of Financial Services – e.g. Insurance, Legal and regulatory codes of practice (highly desirable). What you’ll get in return for your experience A competitive salary of £30-32k is on offer, alongside flexible working. You will also be able to work part-remotely even when the pandemic is over, with the option to work in either Croydon or Bournemouth. Please enquire for more information. What's next? Send through your CV and get in touch with Alice for more information.
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• Highly established, reputable brand within the Financial Services industry. • Dynamic, fast-paced environment. • Flexible working. This leading FS business is seeking a Senior PPC Marketing Executive to support them with their transition of moving their performance marketing channels from agency to in-house, with a particular focus on Paid Social and Paid Search. What you’ll be doing As the Senior Marketing Executive, you will support the in-housing strategy and play a pivotal role in moving all the Paid Search and Paid Social to create an in- house team. Working closely with the performance marketing team to execute the migration plan, you will liaise with the current agencies and team members to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible. You will play a leading role in moving the paid search and paid social capability to create and nurture an in-house team. This means you will be leading, nurturing and developing the current team members to ensure they can confidently work alongside you to run campaigns internally. What experience you’ll need to apply • Relevant professional experience in taking a leading role in supporting the migration of paid search & paid social from agency to in-house. • Extensive performance marketing experience within an internal team or agency background. • Demonstratable experience of PPC and social campaign delivery, management & optimisation. • Experience of developing channel management training, e.g. Google and Facebook. • Highly analytical, and not afraid to utilise data to create opportunities and insights. • Demonstratable experience of Google and Bing Marketing Platforms. • Extensive experience of management and implementation of social campaigns across Facebook and Instagram. • Experience across all performance marketing channels – organic search, display, video and email are advantageous. • Excellent attention to detail and communication skills. • Excellent influential and relationship building skills. • Established knowledge of the Financial Services Industry and working within a regulated environment. What you’ll get in return for your experience A competitive salary of £35-40k is on offer, alongside flexible working. You will also be able to work part-remotely even when the pandemic is over, with the option to work in either Croydon or Bournemouth. Please enquire for more information. What's next? Send through your CV and get in touch with Alice for more information.
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Evolution Power Tools
Tracking down top talent outside the beaten track
- Evolution Power Tools are a fast growing International business expanding their market presence at pace.
- In need of a Paid Search Specialist ADLIB were approached to support in tracking down a marketing specialist that was proving an elusive skill set to find.
- The business location and specialism of paid search meant that there was a small candidate pool within which to source candidates.
- Through an integrated talent attraction campaign, headhunting and tapping into our existing networks we successful sourced and matched them with exactly what they were seeking within 4 weeks.
“ADLIB used their digital marketing expertise and network to source an amazing candidate quickly. This was such a smooth process down to ADLIB's knowledge and proactive nature.”
Oliver Woodland, HR Adviser at Evolution Power Tools Limited
Outlaw
Tracking down a perfect skill and cultural fit
- Outlaw are a new, progressive agency, specializing in branding and packing, in the heart of Bristol.
- They approached us to help them find a Senior Account Manager to come in and help establish their client services offering.
- The specialism of the agency as well as the fact that they were newly established and fast growing meant it was really important to find the right candidate for the role- not only based on experience but also culture.
- Tapping into our extensive network of agency professionals, we were able to find Outlaw’s perfect SAM. She perfectly met their requirements and is set to achieve amazing things there.
"ADLIB took the time to really get to know Outlaw, coming to meet us and getting under the skin of what we’re about. This meant we were able to meet great candidates and make a fantastic hire really swiftly."
Elissa O’Brien, Strategy Director at Outlaw.
