PPC / Paid Search Manager

Edinburgh, To £50,000 + benefits

A Paid Search / PPC Manager role for someone who has digital strategy, e-commerce and paid media experience, a knowledge of google shopping a merchant centres, your search toolkit will be paramount. This is a great opportunity to join a well established but still growing full service digital marketing agency. They are a busy, hugely successful digital agency based in Edinburgh’s city centre looking for talented individuals with proven expertise in digital marketing to join the team. The agency works in close partnership with an array of industries and clients on multi-channel digital marketing campaigns.

As a team they are genuinely close-knit, open, fun and work hard to take on and solve the often tricky and complex problems campaigns present. They have a great camaraderie with a genuine commitment to your development and career including weekly professional development time, qualification learning support, mentoring and encouragement to attend industry networking and events.

The office is based in Edinburgh (a few mins from Waverley or Haymarket) but will consider flexible working - a hybrid approach - usually 2 days/week in the office minimum.

The team are looking for an intelligent, creative and innovative PPC / Paid Media / Senior Search/Ecommerce with a minimum of 5 year’s hands on experience; someone who will thrive on the cut and thrust of agency life; someone who loves taking on and solving the challenges global client campaigns regularly present

In this role you will work with a wide range of clients including B2B and B2C. These clients need someone who can translate ideas and experience into highly effective PPC / Paid Media / Paid Social (Meta) and e-commerce campaigns, giving your clients the competitive edge.

From the start you’ll be working on challenging and interesting paid search and paid media campaigns. The team sets ambitious performance targets for your campaigns and likes nothing better than beating them!

You’ll need to know how search and digital media fits into the broader digital marketing mix/toolkit, and where it can complement other channels.

Impeccable written and spoken English skills are a must – as are delivering your work and your advice to clients in a highly professional manner, all while coping admirably with the variety of the daily schedule. Within this working environment, you’ll be fully supported by senior members of the team, and will learn a huge amount as you go / on the job. This is truly a career making move!

If you’re looking to move into a very supportive, tight-knit team that works hard to deliver results for interesting clients, and has a huge amount of fun doing so, then this is the role for you!

Day to day:

Working on PPC Campaigns in collaboration with Senior Colleagues, the Client Services team, and the client themselves
Ecommerce / google shopping experience
PPC & Paid Social Campaign research, planning, set-up, management & optimisation
Display Campaign research, planning, set-up, management & optimisation
Creating Ads for client campaigns
Providing Monthly Analytics Reporting & Insights
Day-to-day consultation and support to improve our clients’ digital presence (website content and functionality, online marketing activity)

To be considered for this amazing opportunity, you will possess:

Min 4 year’s experience in an PPC / paid search dedicated role, ideally from an agency perspective
Degree Qualified or Equivalent – Digital/marketing/data/analytics ideal
Google Ads Certified (Analytics a bonus)
Analytics – Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
Understanding of Magento, Shopify & other ecomm platforms
Good understanding of Digital Marketing Strategies

Salary To £50,000 + benefits . Training & development is a priority.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side.

When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen.

We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for an inconvenience this may cause.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.

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