Paid Media Manager - FTC

at  JD Sports

• Job Title – Paid Media Manager FTC
• Location – JD Group, Hollins Brook Way, Pilsworth, Bury, BL9 8RR.
• Working rota – Monday to Friday
• Working hours – 8:30am to 5:00pm

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• 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.

EXPERIENCES:

• 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).

ROLE OVERVIEW:

As a Paid Media Manager, you are a part of the management team within the Paid Media. 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 focusing on Paid Search & Shopping, as well as Paid Social & Digital Display.
Your role will be 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.

KEY DUTIES:

• Demonstrate a strong understanding & showcase a practical ability of working with Paid 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.