Paid Media Lead - Bury, United Kingdom - JD Sports

JD Sports

Verified Company

Bury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As a Paid Media Lead, you will be part of the senior team and will help to lead, inspire, and develop our market-leading in-house Paid Media team.

You will spearhead best-in-class Paid Media strategy, automation, and implementation across Paid Search, Paid Social & Digital Display. You will work with other leads in the department and have a dedicated team.

You will be a key figurehead who can work autonomously, as well as collaboratively with both the junior and senior team.

You will contribute and lead department workstreams as well as playing a key part in the development of our internal processes and our professional output, identifying areas of improvement and finding solutions to these problems/issues.

You will drive best-practice across the department as well as developing and mentoring our talented team.

You will be responsible for overseeing important stakeholders throughout the organisation, including the Group Digital Marketing Director, to facilitate alpha and beta testing, manage partnerships, enhance performance, and align your team's efforts with the overarching Paid Media strategy of the business.

You will work alongside other channel Leads across the Multi-Channel team such as Organic Search, Affiliates & Partnerships, CRM, Trade, Content, as well as CRO and Analytics teams.

Job title
Paid Media Lead

Location

Bury (BL9 8RR)
Working hours 40 hours

Working pattern

Monday to Friday

What You'll Be Doing:

Demonstrate a strong understanding & showcase a practical ability of working across all Paid Media, with a focus on Paid Search and/or Paid Social platforms and concepts.
Manage, own, and constantly find ways of improving the workflow of your team through automation & effectiveness. Regularly review team processes (reports, presentations, tools etc.) for efficiency.
Oversee key projects in the team such as implementing new strategies, feed management, change of tech provider, onboarding of new technology etc.
Support your Managers to continually review & suggest changes to tactics based on current performance and impact on campaign goals & KPIs.
Increase knowledge of different Paid Media functions in the team, providing market context and predicting 'what's next'.
Help develop the Paid Media department by being innovative and sharing knowledge and processes.
Own relationships with external suppliers such as Google, Bing, Meta, Snap, TikTok etc. from a strategic & project point of view.
Own relationships of technology partners & continuously review the market, building a preferred partner list.
Help to create strategic blueprint frameworks for all accounts, aiming to maintain our position at the forefront of the industry and ensuring that all accounts are managed to achieve bestinclass status. (i.e. conduct SWOT analysis on a regular basis, identify new opportunities/platforms and scale them etc.)
Strategise, implement, and analyse comprehensive fullfunnel paid media campaigns providing detailed reports on performance and outcomes.
Develop and manage your team in order to drive business performance (i.e. Ensure that each member of the team has annual objectives and a PDP to focus on personal and professional training, development and education through regular meetings/catch ups and support in all aspects when needed etc.)
Developing cross channel integration as part of the planning process.
Act as a point of escalation and manage challenging situations.
Remain abreast of developments in Paid Media and the broader digital space.

What We're Looking For:

Ability to preempt issues and be proactive in producing solutions.
A high degree of numeracy and literacy is essential.
Ability to work under pressure in a performance driven environment.
Aptitude to build and maintain strong working relationships.
Effective in team management (team of 46 people).
Highly literate in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Office365, Google Docs.
Excellent communicator, comfortable in articulating actions.
Effective time management skills with the ability to multitask.
A high attention to detail.
Experience managing sophisticated Paid Search/Paid Social campaigns & teams.
In depth knowledge of Paid Media, from an implementation & planning perspective.
Managing Google Shopping/P-Max, Meta DPA, Retargeting & Advantage+ Shopping campaigns.
Feed Management & Feed Technology knowledge.
CSS experience.
Google Analytics experience.
Working with multiple attribution models.
An appreciation of the Paid Media ecosystem (i.e. how Paid Search influences Paid Social).
Facebook Blueprint Certified
Google Ads Certified
Second language an

The Company:

Established in 2000, size? has since evolved into one of the most influential, leading streetwear brands that represent a community connected by fashion, music, sport and art.

From supplying our customers with all of the finest brands in footwear, apparel and accessories from across the g