Paid Media Manager

As a Paid Media Manager, you be a part of the management team within the Paid Media Department. You will lead, inspire, and develop Senior Executives, Executives & Assistants in our market-leading in-house Paid Media team. You will spearhead best-in-class Paid Media implementation across focussing on Paid Search & Shopping, as well as Paid Social & Digital Display.

Your role will e to lead the strategy and account direction, predominantly working with our tier 1 partners such as Google, YouTube, Bing, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest as well as emerging platforms and opportunities.

You must be able to develop our talented junior team (i.e. Assistants & Executives) and mentor our next management leaders (Senior Executives). You will also manage key stakeholders across the business, as well as integrating with other parts of the Multi-Channel team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams., · Location - Bury, BL9 8RR

· Working rota - Monday to Friday

· Working hours - 40hrs

What You'll Be Doing:

• Search and/or Paid Social platforms and concepts.


• Manage, own, and constantly find ways of improving the workflow of your team.


• Responsible for quality of all work output from your team. Regularly review team processes (reports, presentations, tools etc.) for efficiency.


• Complete internal audits across your accounts & continually evolve.


• Oversee the end to end Implementation including set-up, management, analytics, tracking, reporting of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.


• Be an expert in all relevant 3rd party tools & technology.


• Build & maintain project plans outlining all key tasks for your accounts.


• Continually review & suggest changes to tactics based on current performance and impact on campaign goals & KPIs.


• Accurately forecast potential delivery for your accounts.


• Help develop the Paid Media department by being innovative and sharing knowledge and processes.


• Develop a close working relationship with external suppliers such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter etc.
  
  Ability to identify issues and be pro-active in providing solutions.


• A high degree of numeracy and literacy.


• Ability to work under pressure across a high level of Paid Search and/or Paid Social accounts.


• Effective in team management.


• Highly literate in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Office365, Google Docs.


• Effective communication skills.


• Effective presentation skills.


• Effective time management skills with the ability to multi-task.


• A high attention to detail.


• Experience in managing sophisticated Paid Search & Shopping and/or Paid Social campaigns.


• In depth knowledge of Paid Media, from an implementation perspective.


• Google Analytics.


• An appreciation of the Paid Media ecosystem (i.e. how Paid Search influences Paid Social)., To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
  
  The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.