Digital Marketing Performance Creatives Manager

at  Receptional

DESCRIPTION

We are currently recruiting for a new Digital Marketing Creative Manager to join our growing team.
As Creative Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the strategy, management, and delivery of the agency’s creative team. This role will involve working closely with our Paid Media team, providing strategic input to our key accounts, and collaborating with our wider service teams on other exciting projects.
Your responsibilities will encompass proactive planning, strategic input, efficient execution, and meticulous management of all creative projects from inception to conclusion. Central to your role will be upholding exceptional quality standards, collaborating with service teams and being a key player in the strategic development of our campaigns.
You will be highly driven and organized, detail-focused and solution-focused, with a forward-thinking attitude, and an excellent team player.
About Us:
Are you looking for a role where your colleagues are bright and engaged, the work is rewarding, and there’s plenty of opportunity for progression? At Receptional, we love working with challenger brands that are changing the world. It means we’re growing fast and looking for enthusiastic people to grow with us.
Receptional is a multi-award-winning team of creative and digital marketers that have been working with some of the world’s best-known and challenger brands for 25 years. We offer a variety of services to our clients ranging from one-off projects to multi-channel campaigns.
A major part of our success is the people that work for us. We hire diverse people with potential and enable them to flourish with training and progression with both team and individual training budgets to support your growth. This is a company where you can build a career, we are long-term focused and reward great performance with clearly defined career progression paths.
We place culture at the center of our business with an array of annual initiatives ranging from charity to social events. Work/life balance is of utmost importance to us. We believe in providing a supportive and collaborative environment to enable you to reach your full potential.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• At least 3-5 years of experience executing paid media creative campaigns, focusing on performance creatives.
• At least one year leading a team of creatives, providing strategic input and support on delivery and execution.
• Ability to produce best-in-class performance creatives.
• Ability to project-manage creative campaigns, ensuring high execution and timely delivery.
• Ability to identify creative opportunities through discussions and team meetings.
• Understand digital marketing and how creativity impacts the performance of campaigns.
• Excellent organisational, time management, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead and motivate teams, fostering an environment of collaboration and continuous improvement.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Skills in digital marketing tools and analytics platforms.
• Skills in CRO; providing strategic input and support on delivery and execution.

ABOUT RECEPTIONAL

Founded in 1999, shortly after Google, Receptional is an award-winning agency that’s remained at the forefront of digital marketing for over 20 years.
A team of 50+ creative and technical marketers, we’re a dynamic, forward-thinking bunch that believes in being transparent, collaborative and curious.
We promise to deliver Smarter Digital Thinking for our clients, through our proprietary tools, customer insights and talented team. Together, these enable us to deliver industry-leading results at speed.

Our purpose is to create Better People, Better Lives. It means we:

• Hire people with potential and enable them to flourish;
• Contribute research and insights that drive industry change; and
• Get involved in Bedfordshire life, supporting local causes such as the King’s Arms Project and Woodgreen Pets Charity.

Our approach has been recognised by Investors in People accreditation and a UK Company Culture Award.
Receptional constantly aims high and finishes higher. Our work has been frequently rewarded in recent years, resulting in us being named Search Agency of the Year by The Drum and Best Integrated Search Agency at both the UK and European Search Awards.
We work across diverse sectors and are proud to have unmatched experience in sports, gaming and financial services. Our clients include: Away Resorts, Betdaq, Bill Plant Driving School, Bright Horizons, Casumo, Kiddi Caru, Plus500 and Skilling.

We’re always looking for enthusiastic people to join us across our teams:

• Business Development & Marketing
• Content
• Creative
• HR, Finance & Development
• Operations
• Outreach
• Paid Search & Social
• PR

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate closely with Account Managers and service teams to ensure comprehensive and seamless delivery of creative projects.
• Develop and implement creative strategies for paid advertising campaigns across various channels (display, social, search, video).
• Lead and manage a team of creatives to ensure they deliver high-quality creative assets on time and within budget.
• Collaborate closely with the service teams to understand campaign objectives, target audiences, and success metrics, enabling you to add strategic input.
• Translate campaign briefs into clear creative concepts and ensure they align with brand guidelines.
• Oversee the creative process from ideation to execution, including identifying opportunities, brainstorming, concept development, revisions, and final approvals.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest creative trends and best practices in performance marketing.
• Participate in client meetings (as needed) to identify creative opportunities, present creative concepts and answer questions.
• Maintain a positive and collaborative work environment.
• Conduct performance analysis of creative assets and recommend optimisations.
• Provide input into our testing framework process to improve our client work.
• Regularly evaluate resource efficiency and utilisation to maximise the profitability of deliverables.
• When appropriate, having an active involvement in our pitch process to ensure creative, strategic input is included.
• Training appropriate team members on fundamentals of Project Management and creative strategy when required.
• Working collaboratively with the Innovation team to review tools and solutions that allow us to improve our Project Management efficiencies through technology

Our purpose is to create Better People, Better Lives. It means we:

• Hire people with potential and enable them to flourish;
• Contribute research and insights that drive industry change; and
• Get involved in Bedfordshire life, supporting local causes such as the King’s Arms Project and Woodgreen Pets Charity